Letter from the Drugs Controller General to State and Union Territories Drugs Controllers on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)

COMMENTS: The Drugs Controller General issued an order calling for enforcement of a ban on the sale (including online sale), manufacture, distribution, trade, import and advertisement of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) to include e-cigarettes, among other products. An e-cigarette company challenged this order in the Delhi High Court, and the court has stayed the order’s implementation.

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