Legal notice seeks ban on e-cigarette production, advertisement

City Desk :
A legal notice has been served to the concerned authorities to ban the production, import, marketing, sale, advertising and use of e-cigarettes in Bangladesh.

The legal notice has been sent to secretaries of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Commerce, reports UNB.

Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Mohammad Humayun Kabir sent the legal notice on behalf of human rights organization Law and Life Foundation Trust on Monday.

The notice said that at least 47 countries including Brazil, Singapore, China, Bhutan, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Argentina, Bhutan, India have already banned the production, marketing and use of e-cigarettes as per the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO).