Urgent.. Putin agrees to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes in Russia

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Urgent.. Putin agrees to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the idea of completely banning the sale of electronic cigarettes (vaping) in Russia.

During his visit to the Center for Promoting Adaptive Sports in Samara, Putin said: “Look, Dmitry Nikolayevich is shaking his head… our government supports this,” referring to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, according to the TASS news agency. Russian.

The Russian President’s statements came in response to a request from the head of the Russian public movement “Healthy Homeland” Ekaterina Leshchinskaya, who appealed to Putin to impose a complete ban on electronic cigarettes, pointing to similar positive experiences in neighboring countries and a number of countries around the world.

Putin nodded in approval of the request, confirming his directive to establish measures to ban electronic cigarettes throughout Russia.

He stressed the importance of awareness-raising work among young people, stressing that “the decision alone is not “Enough without doing the proper work” To protect this group from the harms of electronic smoking.