Electronic cigarette users are set to be banished to the pavement alongside their tobacco-smoking cousins – and face similar hefty prices – if the World Health Organisation pushes ahead with plans to regulate e-cigarettes in the same way as tobacco.
Documents seen by the Financial Times revealed that parts of the WHO are keen to classify the battery-powered devices as tobacco under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a WHO treaty that obliges governments to cut smoking rates.
Concerns range from unease over the level of nicotine in e-cigarettes to fears that usage “renormalises” tobacco and undermines anti-smoking laws.
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