Given the number of young tobacco users, the World Health Organization (WHO) urgently calls on governments to ban tobacco and nicotine products with aroma. For example, it mentions tastes such as gumy -like bears or cotton candy.
Such flavors changed toxic products for youth -friendly bait, writes the WHO on the world smoking day on Saturday. They would also be associated with severe lung diseases.
“Packaging and advertising goals especially with young people”
The organization criticized flavors and chic packaging for e-cigarettes and advertisements on social media, especially with young users.
12.5 percent of minors had used e-cigarettes in the WHO-European region with a total of 53 countries in 2022 compared to two percent of adults.
Curiosity of children and adolescents was aroused
Tastes are designed to generate the curiosity of children and adolescents and to encourage them to experiment – and that can lead to addiction. A ban can protect young people, according to the WHO. “A taste feeds a new wave of addiction and must be forbidden,” said whom the boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “They undermine the decades of progress in containing tobacco consumption.” According to those who die about eight million people every year from the effects of tobacco consumption.
Tasting tobacco products in more than 50 countries are not allowed
According to his opinion, the WHO is some promising developments: flavored tobacco products are not allowed in more than 50 countries. More than 40 countries have banned electronic cigarettes. The organization emphasizes that all tobacco products – including those in which the tobacco is only heated – must expose users to toxic and carcinogenic chemicals and strictly regulate.
Source: Krone
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