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[180] [181] [182] On 8 October 2013 the European Parliament in Strasbourg voted down the commission's proposal to introduce medical regulation for e-cigarettes, but proposed that cross-border marketing of e-cigarettes be regulated similarly to tobacco products, meaning that sales of e-cigarettes to under-18s would be prohibited in the European ...
E-cigarettes entered the European market and the US market in 2006 and 2007. [184] The company that Hon worked for, Golden Dragon Holdings, registered an international patent in November 2007. [254] The company changed its name to Ruyan (如烟, literally "like smoke" [248]) later the same month, [255] and started exporting its products. [248]
The Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) or European Tobacco Products Directive (EUTPD) (2014/40/EU) is a directive of the European Union which places limits on the sale and merchandising of tobacco and tobacco related products in the EU. The TPD aims to improve the functioning of the internal market for tobacco and related products, while ensuring ...
Even as conferees meeting at the Royal Society in London were hearing about how e-cigarettes could save millions of lives annually, European Community regulators in Brussels are drafting rules ...
The European Parliament is set to vote Tuesday on proposals to regulate electronic cigarettes as part of a new tobacco-control directive. This legislation -- directed toward minimizing smoking and ...
Construction of electronic cigarettes. An electronic cigarette is a handheld battery -powered vaporizer that simulates smoking, but without tobacco combustion. [ 1 ] E-cigarette components include a mouthpiece (drip tip [ 2 ]), a cartridge (liquid storage area), a heating element / atomizer, a microprocessor, a battery, and some of them have an ...
Minimum age is 18. Minimum age is 17. Minimum age is 16. No regulation/no age set. The smoking age is the minimum legal age required to purchase or use tobacco or cannabis products. Most countries have laws that forbid sale of tobacco products to persons younger than certain ages, usually the age of majority.
A 2008 European Commission report concluded that the directive had been successfully transposed into national law in all EU member states, and that these laws were well implemented. [44] In 2003, the European Union halted the branding of cigarettes as "light" or "mild", saying that this misleads consumers about the dangers of smoking.