Sweden's Parliament Rejects Ban on Flavored E-cigarettes

Jun.30.2022
Sweden rejects ban on flavored e-cigarettes, 7 other European countries have banned or restricted them.

Recently, the Swedish parliament rejected a proposed regulation to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes containing flavorings.

 

According to reports, the Swedish government's Ministry of Social Affairs proposed at the end of February this year to ban flavored electronic cigarettes. Currently, seven European countries have already banned the use of non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes. Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, and Ukraine have already restricted the use of flavored e-cigarettes, while Lithuania's ban on e-cigarette flavors went into effect on July 1. In the Netherlands, the ban on flavored e-cigarettes, originally set to begin in July, has been postponed until January 2023.

 

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