World Health Organization (WHO) country representative Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam said Uganda was sticking to its eight-year ban on the sale of e-cigarettes.
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World Health Organization (WHO) country representative Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam said Uganda was sticking to its eight-year ban on the sale of e-cigarettes.
The Tobacco Control Act 2015 was designed to effectively remove vaping products from the Ugandan market.
"Despite Uganda's high and increasing burden of noncommunicable disease morbidity and mortality, one in 10 people still smokes daily, making the practice a persistent and dire public health threat. This demonstrates the Control Act and all other government moves to regulate products, including e-cigarettes, are justified,” Yonas said.
Uganda is one of 35 countries in the world that have banned vaping. The law prohibits the import, manufacture, distribution, processing, sale, or offer for sale of e-cigarettes, including nicotine-containing and non-nicotine-containing e-liquids.
The WHO surrogate also cited a retracted study reported in The Lancet in 2016 that found that people who used or had used e-cigarettes were less likely to quit.
While the legal consequences have not been optimally enforced, it is encouraging that relatively few people now smoke in public places, the statement said.
Uganda is a signatory to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which provides countries with evidence-based strategies to address the tobacco epidemic in their own context.
WHO continues to support the Ministry of Health's tobacco control initiatives, including raising community awareness of the negative health and environmental impacts of tobacco consumption and encouraging local farmers to grow food instead of tobacco.
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