e-Cigarettes

July 24, 2023

The Health Ministry has launched an online portal to facilitate reporting of violations under the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Act (PECA).
PECA was introduced as an Ordinance and later formalised into an Act in 2019.
The portal, violation-reporting.in , will allow faster action against any reported violations.
All forms of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems including e-cigarettes are prohibited under PECA.
Electronic cigarettes and similar devices are battery-operated systems that heat a substance (in liquid or solid state), which contains nicotine and often flavours, to create an aerosol for inhalation.
E-cigarettes’ aerosols have harmful substances such as nicotine, cancer-causing chemicals, heavy metals such as nickel, tin and lead, chemicals causing lung diseases such as diacetyl.