Health Chief Vows To Move Quickly On E-cigarettes
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2018-06-13 HKT 17:19
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Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Wednesday said the government will move quickly to legislate rules on the sale of e-cigarettes.
The government is aiming to to tax electronic cigarettes and similar non-tobacco alternatives, just like it does cigarettes and cigars.
The government has submitted this proposal before lawmakers.
Chan said e-cigarettes are already in the market but there are many components in these, which are unknown.
"We have discovered that many of these constituents in the e-cigarettes are actually harmful to health. So we need to quickly strengthen our regulatory framework ... in order to better control and also regulate the e-cigarettes," she said.
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