Thai Vape users urge the government to lift the Vape ban
As the Thai government prepares to implement a tobacco-related package, Vape merchants and users think of it as a complete ban on Vape products.
Thailand is a country with Vape at risk. Recently, Vape users and merchants have proposed removing the “smoke-free” product ban and enacting appropriate regulations to prevent people from smoking with more effective measures than to launch a “neutral package”.
Currently, the Ministry of Public Health is developing new regulations requiring the sale of cigarettes only through “neutral packaging” and providing image and warning information designed by the Ministry. This new measure should take effect 270 days after it is published in the official gazette.
Officials say the new regulations cite neutral packaging to help reduce the need for cigarettes, making Thailand the first country in Asia to use this package to stop smoking.
However, the representatives of the Maris group are convinced that neutral packaging will not help reduce cigarette consumption, arguing that warning images have been added to packaging since 2005 and that the number of smokers has not decreased over the past decade.
“Thailand’s [tobacco] law imposes severe penalties, but the question remains whether they can be implemented strictly or strictly,” he said. Previously, ECST received 40,000 signatures during the Vape legalization campaign, suggesting that it be turned into a “controlled” product rather than banned it.
At the end of last month, Maris met with the relevant agencies on the lifting of the ban, but did not solve the problem. But he said that the Ministry of Commerce said it would set up a committee to study the feasibility of the proposal.