{"id":3572,"date":"2023-01-26T01:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2023-02-07T01:41:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:41:18","slug":"taiwans-vape-ban-will-be-counterproductive-to-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/en_gb\/taiwans-vape-ban-will-be-counterproductive-to-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s Vape Ban Will be Counterproductive to Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Amendments to Taiwan\u2019s \u2018Tobacco Hazard Prevention Act\u2019 banning vaping products and restricting heated tobacco, will have a negative impact on public health.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vapingpost.com\/2023\/01\/24\/taiwan-passes-ban-on-vaping-products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The amended Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act<\/a> (\u83f8\u5bb3\u9632\u5236\u6cd5), has been approved and bans the sale, manufacture, and supply of vaping products. Moreover, the measure raises the legal smoking age from 18 to 20, and the proportion of tobacco warnings would increase from 35% to 50% of cigarette packs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vapingpost.com\/2022\/10\/25\/study-heated-tobacco-less-harmful-than-cigarettes-but-much-more-so-than-vapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heated tobacco products<\/a> (HTPs) would be subject to tighter regulations and advertising them would be banned. While manufacturers or importers of HTPs will have to submit a health risk evaluation report for review before they can receive a permit to sell them. Anyone caught violating this may be faced with a hefty penalty of NT$50 million.<\/p>\n<h4>This ban is a public health catastrophe<\/h4>\n<p>In a recent release, Director of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vapingpost.com\/2022\/10\/25\/the-wvas-backvapingbeatsmoking-campaign-kicks-off-in-strasbourg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> World Vapers\u2019 Alliance<\/a>, Michael Landl, said that this ban is a public health catastrophe in the making.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full text <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vapingpost.com\/2023\/01\/26\/taiwans-vape-ban-will-be-counterproductive-to-public-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amendments to Taiwan\u2019s \u2018Tobacco Hazard Prevention Act\u2019 banning vaping products and restricting heated tobacco, will have a negative impact on public health. The amended Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act (\u83f8\u5bb3\u9632\u5236\u6cd5), has been approved and bans the sale, manufacture, and supply of vaping products. Moreover, the measure raises the legal smoking age from 18 to 20, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wva-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taiwan\u2019s Vape Ban Will be Counterproductive to Public Health - World Vapers&#039; Alliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/en_gb\/taiwans-vape-ban-will-be-counterproductive-to-public-health\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taiwan\u2019s Vape Ban Will be Counterproductive to Public Health - World Vapers&#039; Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amendments to Taiwan\u2019s \u2018Tobacco Hazard Prevention Act\u2019 banning vaping products and restricting heated tobacco, will have a negative impact on public health. 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