530 suspected vaping-related lung disease cases! More tobacco control moves worldwide

1、U.S. e-cigarettes cause more than 500 cases of related lung disease

Nowadays, the situation of e-cigarette-induced lung diseases among adolescents in the United States is of concern.

Local time on the 19th, according to the U.S. health officials, the nation by smoking e-cigarettes triggered by confirmed and suspected cases of lung disease, has risen from 380 cases a week ago to 530 cases.

Of those cases, three-quarters are men, and two-thirds of the patients are between the ages of 18 and 34.

In addition to the U.S., the first e-cigarette-related case also appeared in Canada. On the 18th of local time, a high school student in Ontario, Canada was found to be suffering from a serious respiratory disease. Previously, the student had no health problems, but smoked e-cigarettes every day. Doctors said that the student suffered from diseases related to smoking e-cigarettes.

Walmart announced that it would stop selling e-cigarettes, and members of Congress proposed a tax increase.
With the increasing number of e-cigarette-related cases diagnosed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a & ldquo; e-cigarettes harmful & rdquo; warning, the U.S. government and some companies also played a combination of combating e-cigarettes. And the ripples formed by this series of actions are gradually spreading.

Local time on September 20, the U.S. supermarket chain brand Walmart announced that it will stop selling e-cigarettes, this provision applies to all Walmart stores in the United States. Walmart said the decision to stop selling e-cigarettes stems from recent bans on the e-cigarette industry at all levels of federal government.

Just one day before Walmart stopped selling e-cigarettes, a number of members of Congress from both the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States jointly announced a new bipartisan initiative to combat e-cigarettes by raising the federal tobacco tax.

U.S. Congressman Tom · Suozzi: We want to be able to raise the federal tobacco tax, not only to raise the tobacco tax on cigarettes from $1 to $3, but also to tax e-cigarettes at the same $3 level.

In the U.S., mainstream media outlets have also begun to end their cooperation with e-cigarette manufacturers. According to Forbes, both CBS and CNN have decided to stop airing advertisements for e-cigarettes. WarnerMedia and Viacom Group have also issued statements that their other media networks have also stopped airing e-cigarette related advertisements immediately.

On the 18th, the Canadian government promised to track the health effects of e-cigarettes after the first e-cigarette-related case in Canada. Canada's Ontario Health Minister Leah Yap has issued an order requiring all public hospitals in Ontario to provide statistics on e-cigarette-related lung diseases.

In Europe, in the face of the threat of e-cigarettes to the health of the population, European regulators have indicated that they are closely monitoring developments, and the European Commission has committed to completing a scientific review of e-cigarettes by 2021 to provide a new basis for updating the measures currently in place.

The Asian country of India, on the other hand, has decided to take a tougher line against e-cigarettes. On the 18th of local time, the Indian government announced that considering the threat of e-cigarettes to people's health, especially the impact of e-cigarettes on the health of teenagers, the government will promulgate a decree to completely ban e-cigarettes. After the decree comes into force, all e-cigarettes production, import and export, sales and advertising and all other behaviors in India, are illegal. The ordinance is currently awaiting approval by Parliament in November.