India, Jan. 15 -- Governments should regulate ENDS either as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) or under a special act, instead of banning them altogether
Cigarette smoking and oral tobacco consumption account for most of the global mortality rates due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD). Effective tobacco control should therefore be a top priority for the government.
With 106 million adult smokers in the world, India-where tobacco is smoked in cigars, pipes and hookahs or consumed as chewing tobacco (gutka) or snuff-holds the second place with largest number of smokers.
E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco. It heats up nicotine to produce an aerosol which resemb...