Mexican president plans to introduce e-cigarette ban bill in 2024

  Mexican President López Obrador plans to introduce a bill to ban the sale of e-cigarettes by 2024, emphasizing the harm of e-cigarettes to youth health. The World Health Organization encourages governments to ban e-cigarettes just like tobacco.

Breaking news: According to the Spanish International News Agency on December 14, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated on December 14 that he would propose a law to ban e-cigarettes, referred to as "smoking devices," before leaving office in 2024.

President López Obrador has previously threatened to take this measure, stating that these devices harm consumer health.

He criticized Javier Laynez Potisek, a minister of the Mexican Supreme Court, who had issued an exemption to a company regarding the ban on e-cigarette sales.

President López Obrador emphasized: "Technology and science prove that e-cigarettes harm youth, damaging their lungs and affecting all respiratory tracts. How can I sit idly by just because Javier made such a decision?" López Obrador assured that those in favor of continuing commercialization are "seeking profit," while Javier previously advocated for lifting the suspension of e-cigarette sales, claiming it "affects business and commercial relationships."

"How should we respond to people's health?" President López Obrador then questioned, "We need to understand why these companies are exempted?"

At the same time, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged governments to treat e-cigarettes similarly to tobacco and ban all types of e-cigarette sales.