China intends to take steps to regulate the e cigarettes market as it is concerned about consumer health and of course because sales of electronic cigarettes have been rising steadily over the last few years.
Its national health committee China started a research on e-cigarettes and plans to issue new legislation for the industry, health authority chief Mao Qunan said at a news conference this week.
The effort came as Chinese start-up e-cigarette companies seem to have "escaped" in their quest to attract attention to the world's largest smoker market.
Vaping suppliers in China are currently unknown labs. At least 20 electronic companies cigarettey in China have increased their funding since the beginning of 2019, according to data collected by Crunchbase.
All of these companies are facing China Tobacco's state monopoly, the world's largest cigarette maker, and provides the government with colossal tax revenue.
Some researchers support the use of e cigarettes can help adults stop smoking while others have shown that electronic cigarettes are just as addictive as traditional cigarettes.
The other big controversy is the growing use of e-cigarettes among teenagers, which has led to the plan of Californiato prohibit sales of these products.
China, on the other hand, reportedly applies more controls to new smoking technology. Research shows that heating aerosols produced by e-cigarettes can contain "many harmful substances" and that additives in e-cigarettes can "pose health risks", such as said Mao. It also said that controversial labeling of nicotine levels could lead to poor smoker behavior and lax device standards could lead to battery explosions and other incidents. better safetys.
Like the US, China has also seen a worryingly high participation rate among young people, which is another reason that pushes Beijing to keep industry under control. The use of electronic cigarettes by children, adolescents and young adults has proven to be unsafe because nicotine, which is highly addictive, can damage brain development.
In May, China drew up a set of standards (PDF in Chinese) for electronic cigarettes that determine the level of nicotine, the type of additives, accessories and designs allowed in battery-powered smoking devices.
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