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Hong Kong Drops Plans to Ban Vape Sales (For Now)

June 11, 2020

The Hong Kong legislature has dropped plans to ban vaping products—at least for now. Vaping and harm reduction advocates are fighting the proposed ban since it had been announced quite 19 months ago during a speech by Hong Kong’s chief executive.
The Bills Committee on Smoking of the legislature ended discussions over the bill to ban e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs, also mentioned as heat-not-burn products) last week. The committee had been working on the bill since March 2019, holding six meetings and three public hearings, according to the Manila Standard.
Some legislature members on the committee strongly opposed the ban, citing the injustice of denying low-risk nicotine products to folks that smoke. “Legislators like Peter Shui, Raymond Chan and Cheng Chunt-tai, have repeatedly argued that a ban was neither logical nor feasible,” said Nancy Loucas, executive coordinator of Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates, a regional consumer advocacy organization.

The head of the Hong Kong Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office, Dr. Fung Ying, told the South China Morning Post that the govt. would introduce another bill to ban vapes within subsequent legislative session. “At this stage, our most urgent task is public education about the risks of heated tobacco products and to guard against the misleading claim that they carry a lower risk and observe the trend,” Fung told the paper.

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