Ban up in smoke, sale of e-cigarettes in goes online in Punjab and Haryana
CHANDIGARH: Your pack of e-cigarettes can be delivered with the click of a mouse. This despite the ban on their sale and manufacture. Online portals are freely advertising and selling them around the Tricity even though Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh had notified electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) as an unapproved drug under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Rules, 1945. TOI placed an online order for e-cigarettes – a quitter kit that contains prefilled tobacco—from Chandigarh. Initially, it was accepted, but the next day, the website mailed that they “do not ship in Punjab and Chandigarh.” The online sellers wrote: “Please place your order again if you have any other state address. W...
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