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BELGIUM will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes from January 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move among European Union nations.
Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said inexpensive e-cigarettes had turned into a health threat through being an easy way for teenagers to be drawn into smoking and become addicted to nicotine.
“Disposable e-cigarettes are a new product simply designed to attract new consumers,” he said in an interview.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE