In Depth: Vape Firms, Health Advocates United in Opposition to Tobacco Monopoly Control of E-Cigarette Rules
For tobacco control advocates, the STMA’s lack of interest in public health measures is the problem. Copying its model wholesale for e-cigarettes could expose more people to a growing list of suspected harms that include hooking minors on nicotine. Photo: VCG
Public health advocates and e-cigarette makers don’t agree on much.
But outspoken figures in both camps say China’s powerful State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) which is in the enviable position of both regulating and effectively selling almost all of China’s tobacco products should not also be given the power to regulate vapes.