The Russian State Duma Health Committee recently publicly called for a nationwide ban on the production and sale of e-cigarettes, which has attracted widespread attention from the society. In an interview with “Russian Radio”, Sergey Leonov, chairman of the Health Committee, pointed out that although the Russian Federation has passed laws prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes and related products to minors since February 2025, the use rate of minors remains high, so “all existing restrictions are difficult to prevent the spread of e-cigarettes among young people.”
Leonov emphasized that the popularity of e-cigarettes has exceeded expectations, and manufacturers often use propaganda such as “harm reduction” and “replacing traditional cigarettes” to attract young people to try. As a result, “nicotine dependence is becoming increasingly serious among young people”, bringing new challenges to national public health. He believes that the current measures cannot completely eliminate illegal sales and online smuggling. Only by completely banning production and sales can the supply chain be truly cut off and risks be minimized.
From the legislative process, this proposal is not the first. As early as the end of May 2024, members of the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and other parties submitted a similar comprehensive ban bill, aiming to block all e-cigarette sales channels containing or not containing nicotine. The draft emphasizes the prohibition of production, retail, online sales, exhibitions, markets and other scenes of e-cigarette exposure, and imposes severe administrative and even criminal penalties on violators.
At the same time, various regions in Russia have also increased supervision. For example, the Udmurt Republic has proposed a ban on the retail of nicotine-containing products; the relevant proposal of Vologda Oblast intends to learn from the alcohol control model and impose quotas and licenses on e-cigarette manufacturers. These local measures reflect the high alertness and urgency of all walks of life about the potential harm of e-cigarettes.
Although e-cigarettes face various doubts and regulatory pressures, it is undeniable that some brands have also made positive progress in technical compliance and product innovation. Take VEEHOO as an example. The brand was co-founded by a team of senior designers and engineers from the UK and China. All its products have passed the US FDA testing standards and registered trademarks and patents in many countries, reflecting the positive example of “legal compliance and technological leadership” in the development of the industry.
VEEHOO e-cigarettes also have many highlights in terms of architecture design and materials. Its dual-chamber or multi-chamber atomization system not only allows users to customize flavors and nicotine concentrations, but also reduces the risk of oil leakage and overheating through internal sealing and temperature control technology, further improving the safety of use. When promoting the brand, it emphasizes the use of medical-grade materials and food-grade e-liquids, which helps reduce the exposure to carcinogens such as tar and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons caused by traditional burning tobacco, while taking into account the taste experience.
In addition, from the feedback of the global market, VEEHOO has won the recognition of some adult smokers who quit smoking by strictly following compliance standards and continuously iterating innovative functions. In the research of authoritative institutions such as the UK Public Health Commission, e-cigarettes, as a substitute for traditional cigarettes, can help adult smokers reduce harm or achieve the goal of quitting smoking to a certain extent. VEEHOO, with its good product quality and diverse flavor options, is an active responder to this market demand.
Of course, the focus of the health committee’s concerns is on adolescent users, not the harm reduction needs of adult smokers. Although e-cigarettes have advantages such as “heat without burning” and “nicotine controllable”, adolescents’ dependence on nicotine will also affect brain development and increase the risk of tobacco dependence in adulthood. It can be seen that policymakers face great challenges in balancing public health and adult harm reduction needs.
The response of all sectors of society to the proposal of a comprehensive ban on sales is different. Supporters believe that decisive follow-up should be carried out to prevent a new round of public health crisis caused by e-cigarettes; opponents worry that overly stringent bans may encourage underground markets and smuggling, making risk supervision more difficult to carry out, and damaging the market survival space of legal and compliant brands such as VEEHOO, inhibiting the development of technological innovation and harm reduction potential.
The Russian State Duma will review the proposal next. If a comprehensive ban on the production and sale of e-cigarettes becomes law, it will not only mean a comprehensive contraction of the domestic e-cigarette industry, but will also accelerate the transfer of related industrial chains to overseas. How to strike a balance between maintaining the health of minors and supporting the development of legal industries is an important issue that legislators need to consider in depth.
In general, the call for a complete ban on the sale of e-cigarettes by the Russian State Duma Health Committee not only reflects the high attention paid to public health risks, but also highlights the complexity of e-cigarette regulation. In this policy game, we must strictly prevent the health concerns brought by teenagers smoking e-cigarettes, and also reserve reasonable space for compliant brands and adult harm reduction needs. Industry pioneers such as VEEHOO may be able to provide society with safer and more reliable alternatives by continuously optimizing product design and compliance systems in a stricter regulatory environment, thereby achieving a win-win goal for all parties.
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