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Post by qsplan on Jan 4, 2015 16:39:35 GMT
Well... it's a google translation from a post in a Greek vaping forum (e-kapnisma.gr)
Europe
• In Austria filters containing nicotine are classified as drugs and electronic cigarettes with nicotine as medical devices.
• In Bulgaria, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is legal, as well as the sale of filters and liquid nicotine.
• In Germany, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is legal.
• In Denmark, the country's Medicines Agency classifies electronic cigarettes containing nicotine as pharmaceutical products. So, an authorization is required before these products can be marketed and sold, but such authorization does not currently provide.
The agency has stated, however, that electronic cigarettes do not grant nicotine to the user and not used in any other way for prevention or treatment, are not considered medicinal devices.
• In Switzerland, the sale of electronic cigarettes without nicotine is legal. The use and introduction of electronic cigarettes containing nicotine is legal, but no sale within the country. Since December 2011, the tobacco tax does not apply to electronic cigarettes and liquids contain nicotine.
• In Estonia, the State Drug Administration had previously banned electronic cigarettes, but the ban was overturned in court on March 7, 2013.
Currently liquids containing more than 0,7 mg / ml nicotine still considered drugs and therefore can not be purchased legally in the country, because in no manufacturer has been granted the necessary permission. After the new EU directive on tobacco products in October 2013, the legislation is moving towards a more relaxed attitude to the issue. As said Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia Taavi Rõivas (responsible tobacco regulation), prohibit the advertising of electronic cigarettes and clearly would ban their sale to minors, but will now be available for adults.
• In UK, use, sale and advertising of electronic cigarettes is legal and electronic cigarettes are not included in the smoking ban. In 2014, the government announced the adoption of legislation that will outlaw buying electronic cigarettes by people aged under 18.
• In Ireland, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is legal.
• In Italy, a decree of the Ministry of Health electronic cigarettes containing nicotine, can not be sold to anyone under 16 years.
• In Lithuania, electronic cigarettes are legal.
• In Latvia, electronic cigarettes are legal.
• In Norway, the sale of any goods containing nicotine than tobacco is illegal under a law of the decade of 80. The same applies for admission.
• In the Netherlands, the use and sale of electronic cigarettes is allowed, but the advertising is prohibited.
• The Wales could become the first part of the UK that would prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes in enclosed public places for fear that it could consider as normal the usage of conventional cigarettes.
• In Hungary, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is legal. The sale of filters and liquid nicotine is illegal.
• In Poland, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is legal.
• In Portugal, the electronic cigarettes with nicotine prohibited and for those without nicotine there is a setting.
• In Romania, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is legal.
• In Sweden, the nicotine liquid sale is illegal, but not imported from a country within the European Economic Area.
• In the Czech Republic, use, sale and advertising of electronic cigarettes is legal.
• In Finland, the National Supervisory Authority Welfare and Health (Valvira) said the new ban on the marketing of tobacco products effective from January 1, 2012 will include electronic cigarettes, resulting in Finnish stores (either physically or electronically) can not advertise electronic cigarettes because it can look like regular cigarettes.
Theoretically, the electronic cigarettes without nicotine can be sold, as long as the images and their prices may not be visible. The order electronic cigarettes from abroad is still permitted. Selling nikotinouchon electronic cigarettes is prohibited, as nicotine is considered a medicine requires a license that electronic cigarettes have not yet.
However, the Finnish authorities decided that nikotinoucha filters containing less than 10 mg nicotine and liquids containing less than 0.42 grams of nicotine per bottle can be purchased legally from other countries for private use. If the nicotine content is higher, is necessary recipe from Finnish physician.
From a country within the European Economic Area, on returning to Finland, may be introduced in more liquid supplies that will be consumed within a year, while from outside the EEA supplies three months. Finally, postal orders authorized by the EEA countries with a maximum of three months supplies.
United States of America
Federal Regulation
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) initially classified electronic cigarettes as drug delivery devices and subject to similar control with food, medicines and cosmetics (FDCA) before importation and sale in the United States. Ranking them was challenged in court, and rejected in January 2010 by Federal District Judge Richard J. Leon, saying that "electronic cigarettes should be regulated as tobacco products, not medicines or medical products."
In March 2010, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia stayed the order bringing an appeal, in which the FDA claimed the right to regulate electronic cigarettes based on the ability to regulate nicotine replacement therapies such as gum or nicotine patches. In addition, the agency argued that the legislation on tobacco introduced last year "expressly excludes from the definition as" tobacco product "every object is drug, device or combination of the above under the Food Federation, medicines and cosmetics (FDCA) and provides that these species should be regulated under the existing provisions of the FDCA ".
On December 7, 2010, the appeals court ruled against the FDA by unanimous decision, acting; that the FDA can regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products only and therefore can not prevent their introduction. The judges considered that these devices should be subject to medicines legislation, unless marketed for therapeutic use - the electronic cigarette manufacturers have demonstrated successfully that their products appeal to smokers and not to those who seek to quit smoking.
The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia on January 24, 2011, refused to reconsider its decision, ruling electronic cigarettes by setting the FDA as medical devices.
In April 2014, the FDA proposed new regulations for tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes. The regulations require disclosure of ingredients used in liquids replacement of electronic cigarette, evidence of the safety of the ingredients, and regulation of the devices used for the evaporation of liquids.
Misc State's Regulation
In the absence of federal regulations, many states have adopted their own regulations for electronic cigarette, primarily to prohibit their sale to minors, including Maryland, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, the Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin and Colorado. And other states are considering similar legislation.
As of July 3, 2014, all of the states except Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming have regulations against the use of the electronic cigarette to some extent, indoors.
• The Arizona plans to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors.
• The governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, vetoed a bill that would regulate the sale of electronic cigarettes within the state on the grounds that "if adults want to purchase and consume these products with an understanding of the risks to their health, you should be able to do so. "
Senator Ellen Corbett, proposed a bill that would classified electronic cigarettes as tobacco products and thus prohibited their use where smoking is banned. In August 2013 session which would become the proposal of Senator postponed a few hours before the hearing at the National Assembly. Not seen whether Ellen Corbett will review the bill or will introduce it again next year.
• The Konecticut, from October 1, 2014, prohibits the possession and sale of electronic cigarettes to people under 18 years.
• In Maryland, the electronic cigarette sales to minors are prohibited.
• The New Jersey voted in 2009 to classify the electronic cigarette in the category of tobacco products, with the inclusion under the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act, which bans smoking in indoor workplaces and public spaces. The Connie Wagner. member of the Legislative Assembly, argued that "young people use these things, you will become addicted to nicotine and will eventually lead to the normal cigarette."
• In New Hampshire, the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors is illegal by July 2010.
• The New York State banned the use of electronic cigarettes within 100 feet of the entrance to schools in September 2012 and banned electronic cigarette sales to minors from January 1, 2013.
On December 30, 2013 the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill regulating the use of electronic cigarettes in the same way as the regular cigarettes. The bill was signed on the penultimate day of the office of mayor, since the course adopted by the city council.
• In Oregon, on August 1, 2014, the use of electronic cigarettes in public parks.
• In Pennsylvania, 2013, the Senate voted to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to adults. That same year, members of the Medical Association urged the state legislature to pass laws for electronic cigarettes that have guarantees equivalent to existing laws on tobacco.
Other countries (apart of Europe and USA)
• In Egypt, the technical committee of the health ministry rejected the applications for marketing authorization of electronic cigarettes on the grounds that they contain harmful chemicals and that there is insufficient data on safety and toxicity.
• In Argentina, sales, import and manufacture of electronic cigarettes have been banned by the local regulator. Moreover, their use has been discouraged due to lack of several elements.
• In Australia, the Federal Department of Health and Ageing classify every form of nicotine except for replacement therapies and cigarettes, as a type of poison. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has said that there are no laws that prevent the introduction of electronic cigarettes purchased over the Internet for personal use, unless prohibited by the laws of any state or territory. Laws in several Australian states are a bit contradictory.
According to the Poisons Standard 2010, inhaled nicotine considered drug or medication, when used to assist in smoking cessation.
• In Brazil, sale, importation and advertising of any kind of electronic cigarette is prohibited. The Brazilian health and hygiene, Anvisa, found that current estimates for health security using the electronic cigarette is not yet satisfactory for commercial approval.
• In Switzerland, the sale of electronic cigarettes without nicotine is legal. The use and introduction of electronic cigarettes containing nicotine is legal but can not be sold within the country. Since December 2011, the tobacco tax does not apply to electronic cigarettes and liquids contain nicotine.
• In the United Arab Emirates, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is illegal.
• In Japan, there are no laws specific to the use of electronic cigarettes. However, because there is arrangement for the sale of products containing nicotine, has given no explicit authorization for the sale of liquid containing nicotine. Because of this, the sale of evaporators is legal, but the sale of the liquid is not. Users may however introduce fluids from abroad for personal use.
• In India, the use of electronic cigarettes are now legal. According to the Indian health law of 2006, smoking is banned in public places. Since electronic cigarettes do not use tobacco, do not fall under this law.
• In Israel, the Ministry of Health plans to expand the existing legislation on smoking in public places and in the electronic cigarette, a year after warning against its use.
• In Canada, since March 2009, while the import, sale and advertising of electronic cigarettes containing nicotine is not approved, the products can be sold and used in the country.
• In China, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is legal.
• In Lebanon, the Cabinet has banned the sale and use of electronic cigarettes, from September 21, 2011.
• In Malaysia, the sale of electronic cigarettes is an offense under the Act. To those who were found guilty of the sale and distribution of electronic cigarettes (and liquid nicotine for use in electronic cigarettes), imposed a fine of not more than 3.000 RM (about 660 €) and / or imprisonment up to two years.
The country's health minister said that electronic cigarettes containing nicotine is more harmful than regular cigarettes and warned their citizens to avoid them.
• In Mexico, the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks, announced that prohibited under Mexican law, the sale and promotion of products that include items that are generally associated with tobacco products.
• In Nepal, under current cigarette legislation, the use and sale of electronic cigarettes.
• In South Korea, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is legal, but they are heavily taxed. Having electronic cigarettes among adolescents remains an issue.
• In Dubai, the sale and use of electronic cigarettes is illegal.
• In Pakistan, the import and sale of electronic cigarettes is legal, but the Medical and Dental Council found that current estimates for health security using the electronic cigarette is not yet satisfactory.
• In Panama, importation, distribution and sale of electronic cigarettes has been prohibited since June 2009. The Ministry of Health reports the findings of the FDA as the rationale for the ban.
• In Singapore, electronic cigarettes are currently prohibited by the law on tobacco, which is imposed by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA). The legislation prohibits the importation, distribution or sale of any product or pastry cooking or any toy or other object that is designed to resemble a tobacco product or its packaging which is designed to resemble the packaging usually associated with tobacco products.
The HSA takes seriously any person who violates the law. The guilty for the offense subject to a fine up to $ 5,000 (about 3.650 €). According to Health Minister, electronic cigarettes is the effort of the industry to attract new users and marketed in such a way that attract young people, including women.
• In Turkey, the sale of electronic cigarettes and replacement fluids is illegal.
• In Hong Kong, the sale and possession of electronic cigarettes that contain nicotine, which are classified as type 1 poison, governed by Decree Medicines and Poisons. The sale or possession is not permitted and is punishable by a fine of up to 100.000 HK $ (about 9.400 €) and / or imprisonment of up to two years. However, the law does not cover any non-nikotinoucho electronic cigarette.
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