On June 30, nearly a year after the national assembly of Panama passed legislation banning the sale of electronic cigarette products, President Laurentino Cortizo of Panama agreed to the bill. The new law prohibits the sale and import of all electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products with or without nicotine.

The law does not criminalize the use of electronic cigarettes, but prohibits the use of electronic cigarettes in any place where smoking is not allowed. The new law also prohibits online shopping and gives customs officials the power to inspect, detain and detain goods.

According to LA Prensa, dealers can import prohibited products for export to third countries.

President Cortizo vetoed a ban passed by the national assembly in 2020, and then waited nearly a year to approve the 2021 bill. Panama has passed an administrative decree to ban the sale of e-cigarettes in 2014.

The consumer e-cigarette advocates of Asociaci ó n por La reducci ó n de da ñ OS del tabaquismo de Panam á (ardt Panam á) opposed the passing of the bill last year and pointed out that this would promote e-cigarette consumers to buy illegal black market products with quality problems.

More than a dozen Latin American and Caribbean countries have e-cigarettes bans, including Mexico, whose president recently issued a decree banning the sale of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products.

Most of the impetus for these laws comes from tobacco control organizations funded by the World Health Organization (who) and its affiliated Bloomberg charitable foundation, which firmly oppose e-cigarettes, such as the smoke free children's movement and alliance. They have great influence in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and extend to the International Treaty Organization Framework Convention on tobacco control (FCTC) sponsored by the World Health Organization.

Panama will host the 10th Conference of the parties to the FCTC (cop10) in 2023. Last year's COP9 meeting was held online, and the FCTC leadership postponed the discussion of laws and regulations on e-cigarettes to next year's meeting.

The president of Panama and the public health authorities of the country may expect to be highly praised by the FCTC anti e-cigarette leadership at the 2023 meeting. Panama may receive incentives from the World Health Organization and regional tobacco control organizations for its ban position, just like India and Mexico.

The Republic of Panama borders on Colombia and connects north and South America. Its famous Panama Canal divides this narrow country into two, facilitating the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Panama has a population of about four million.

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