In the health sector, it is noteworthy that the National Assembly agreed to ban the production, trading, import, storage, transportation, and use of electronic cigarettes, heated tobacco products, gases, and addictive substances that are harmful to human health from 2025, ensuring public health, social order, and safety.
This content is shown in the Resolution on questions and answers at the 8th Session, which was just voted and approved by National Assembly delegates this afternoon, November 30.
Presenting a report explaining, accepting and revising the draft resolution, Secretary General of the National Assembly Le Quang Tung said that there were opinions suggesting the issuance of legal documents to prohibit the production, trading, import, harboring, transporting and using of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products that are harmful to health.
"The Standing Committee of the National Assembly finds that the proposal of the delegates is appropriate due to the urgent, complicated, toxic and addictive nature of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, affecting the health and lives of people, especially the young generation, students, therefore, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly requests to make adjustments as in the draft Resolution," said Mr. Le Quang Tung.
The passed resolution clearly states that the National Assembly agrees to ban the production, trading, import, storage, transportation, and use of electronic cigarettes, heated tobacco products, gases, and addictive substances that are harmful to human health from 2025, ensuring public health, social order and safety, and assigns the Government to organize specific implementation.
The National Assembly also requested to simultaneously step up propaganda work and raise awareness among people, especially young people and teenagers, about the harmful effects of alcohol, beer, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, heated tobacco, gases, and addictive substances that are harmful to human health.
E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products are new products that have only appeared in the last 10 years, and scientific evidence on the toxicity and long-term health effects of these products is still being studied. However, many initial studies have shown the health consequences of using and passive exposure to the "aerosol"/smoke of these products.
Heated tobacco products (HTPs) are products that use an electronic device to heat a tobacco stick to a temperature high enough to create an inhalable aerosol containing nicotine, a highly addictive substance, other chemicals, non-tobacco additives, and often a variety of flavors.
The World Health Organization WHO recommends: Heated tobacco produces toxic gases, containing many of the same toxic substances as in regular cigarette smoke.
Although heated at lower temperatures, it still produces chemicals similar to those in cigarette smoke such as: Acrolein (a strong respiratory irritant), glycidol, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde (carcinogens), carbon monoxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and metals (aluminum, titanium, strontium, molybdenum, tin and antimony).
