2023-08-15 02:03:04
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stressed this Monday that the State has taken a cutting-edge measure in the world by prohibiting the use and marketing of electronic cigarettes “for the physical and mental health of our youth.”
After the congratulations of the Pan American Health Organization to Venezuela for promulgating said resolution, he urged the younger population to heed the call.
“I say to the youth: Listen, boys and girls, from high schools, from universities, from neighborhoods, from communities, pay attention to this measure. It is for the physical and mental health of our youth, ”he referred to in his program“ With Maduro + ”.
The head of state pointed out that Venezuela is moving forward in the “preservation of health in the face of, what has been scientifically proven, the damage it causes to the body, to the lungs, fatal damage caused by smoking electronic cigarettes, vapers. It does much more damage, keep your health, don’t sign up for these, sign up for healthy things, healthy youth, guaranteed future life”.
Recently, the Pan American and World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has congratulated the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the recent promulgation of a resolution that prohibits the use and commercialization of electronic cigarettes, vapers, and products related to electronic administration systems. of nicotine, similar non-nicotine electronic systems and heated tobacco products, in its territory.
Resolution 414 states in its text that “the manufacture, storage, distribution, circulation, commercialization, import, export, use, consumption, publicity, promotion and sponsorship of electronic nicotine administration systems, similar electronic systems without nicotine, are prohibited. consumables, tanks or cartridges, containers of refill consumables, and other accessories, conventional heated tobacco products, and similar products”.
For PAHO, this action “becomes one of the most important achievements of Venezuelan public health in recent years and puts the country in the vanguard squad in the fight against tobacco and derivatives in the region.”
According to their data, Venezuela has positioned itself as one of the countries with the greatest progress in tobacco control in the region, for this reason in 2020 it received the World No Tobacco Day Award, granted by the WHO.
T/CO with information from the Presidential Press
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