Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke said the inexpensive e-cigarettes had turned into a health threat since they are an easy way for teenagers to be drawn into smoking and get hooked on nicotine.' Disposable e-cigarettes is a new product simply designed to attract new consumers,' he said in an interview.'E-cigarettes often contain nicotine. Nicotine makes you addicted to nicotine. Nicotine is bad for your health. These are fact,' Vandenbroucke added.
AP PHOTOAustralia outlawed the sale of ' vapes' outside pharmacies earlier this year in some of the world's toughest restrictions on electronic cigarettes. Now Belgium is leading the EU drive.'We are the first country in Europe to do so,' Vandenbroucke said.He wants tougher tobacco measures in the 27-nation bloc.'We are really calling on the European Commission to come forward now with new initiatives to update, to modernize, the tobacco legislation,' he said.
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