WHO calls for ban on E-cigarette use indoors

Aug 26, 2014, 05:06 PM

Electronic cigarettes are the new frontier in the tobacco industry, and in a new report, the World Health Organisation says they could cause more people to become addicted to nicotine at a time when in many countries smoking is becoming less acceptable.

It's called for a ban on e-cigarettes being used indoors, a ban on advertising them and a ban on selling them to minors.

All that despite the fact that many people claim e-cigarettes keep them off normal cigarettes, and all the harmful chemicals contained in those.

So why is the World Health Organisation recommending governments clamp down on e-cigarettes?

We talk to the WHO's Armando Perruga, and Katherine Devlin, president of the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association.