Reports said that Dhaka Metropolitan Police have examined some specimens of e-Cigarettes and found high levels of drugs and narcotics like liquid Yaba, heroin, liquid nicotine and other poisonous drugs. Some smokers argue that smoking e-Cigarettes are helpful to quit smoking but available data do not support the notion. Different brands of e-Cigarettes contain different chemical concentrations. There is also a fear that the widespread use of e-Cigarettes will normalize the consumption of nicotine, undoing the social changes which resulted from the smoking ban and making smoking socially acceptable once more. The British Medical Association is calling for a ban in public places, while the World Federation of Public Health Associations considers that all governments should apply the precautionary principle and should implement an appropriate regulatory regime for e-Cigarettes as products that have the potential to cause considerable harm to the public’s health.
Many evidences point to the fact that e-Cigarettes are likely to be much less harmful but we need really robust monitoring, surveillance and of course we really welcome a lot of research into these products. As scientists are divided as to whether the inhalation of vapours is more harmful than traditional smoking, the government should be more vigilant and cautious to allow or negate the use of such inhalation devices. New brands of drugs in the fashionable e-Cigarette containers might trap the youths into regular smoking, so that all should come up to ostracize such addictions.
