Hong Kong is considering adopting the same regulations as cigarettes to treat Vape

According to the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong will hear recommendations on new regulations that treat Vape products as the same as combustible tobacco products. This includes non-combustible products such as Philip Morris International iQOS Heating Non-Combust Vape and its component tobacco products Heat Sticks.

In practice, these new regulations will prohibit the sale of the following products to minors: Vape products, including equipment, atomizer coil heads, and other components, as well as E-liquid, heating non-combustion equipment such as iQOS and its compressed tobacco "and herbal cigarettes" In addition, the packaging of these non-tobacco products will require a health warning. Similarly, it is forbidden to advertise all of the above products. Finally, there is an important matter that the regulation will impose a tax on the tobacco content of these products, even as of writing At the time of this article, the specific details of the tax have not been published.

Although this rule seems quite serious for American readers, according to the previous situation, this is actually a loose policy on the previous restrictions; according to previous restrictions, E-liquid containing nicotine cannot be purchased in Hong Kong. Cannot buy iQOS Vape. If Hong Kong now proposes to levy taxes on the sale of these products, then the hidden benefit is that Hong Kong now intends to allow the sale of such products, which were previously prohibited.

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