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India’s Health Ministry is officially pushing for a total ban of electronic cigarettes and their kind. According to health minister Harsh Vardhan, recent research findings by experts have concluded that e-cig use is no less unsafe than smoking. As such, an effort to ban them entirely is in the works.

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Where said research is coming from is anyone’s guess. Studies across the globe have already shown that electronic cigarette cause far less harm than their conventional counterparts. Many experts even argued that even the most rudimentary understanding of the harm caused by smoking would show that electronic nicotine devices would be far less dangerous.

Most experts in the know now agree that e-cigs are roughly 95 to 99% less harmful than tobacco cigarettes. Beyond that, they are rapidly showing themselves to be helpful to those hoping to quit smoking. So again, it’s anyone’s guess what research Vardhan is looking at.

Smoking is a hot topic in India where the habit dates back to around 2000 BC. Today, nearly 1 in 5 males deaths in the country are smoking relating and around a million people die each year from the addiction. So India has a lot to fight for. Just recently, the country passed legislation reserving 85% of tobacco cigarette pack space for graphic warnings about the dangers of the products.

It appears the electronic cigarette market is far newer there than it is in many other countries. So who knows — they might eventually catch up to some of the science on the products too.