Health: Consumers Association, define standards for electronic cigarettes - Reuters Press Agency

(ASCA) – Rome, June 7 -” In the first 5 months of 2013, Nas performed some 800,000 irregular seizures of material for electronic cigarettes.” Alarming figures that confirm the concerns that most ‘times the Consumers Association has expressed” serious about regulatory uncertainty surrounding the marketing and safety of electronic cigarettes.”

” E’ key – emphasizes’ associaione – provide precise answers to citizens, defining standards and criteria for the marketing of devices and refills, as well as ‘strengthening controls relating to the illegal trade of these products.

It’s not’ acceptable that, due to a serious gap in the law, citizens are at risk of coming into contact with potentially harmful products.

Besides the Agency of the drug has recently revealed how these instruments, rather than ‘help smokers lose the habit, in reality ‘can actually’ increase the use of tobacco ‘.

We therefore ask the Ministry of Health and relevant institutions to carry out the checks and monitoring necessary to give to those who buy cigarettes Electronic accurate and reliable information on the properties ‘and the safety of these devices.

Only through these studies will define and provide safety standards for the production and sale of electronic cigarettes, as well as’ tools to verify compliance with these guidelines and to punish violations.”

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