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Electronic cigarettes – the more popular they become the more concerns about their quality and safety are rising. Various Health Organizations from different countries urge people not to believe the advertisements until all the scientific investigations and testing would be accomplished and these devices would be officially approved.

Every day diverse scientists make statements attempting to stop the Hysteria caused by electronic cigarettes, and today is not an exception. The John Tung Foundation asked the Taiwan Department of Health to put electronic cigarettes in the same legal category with conventional cigarettes. Jie Zheng, the foundation president stated that electronic cigarettes contain nicotine which is heated and inhaled by smokers, therefore, these devices should considered as common cigarettes according to corresponding Article of the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act.

In the aforementioned article it is specified that any product produced from tobacco or containing tobacco and intended for smoking, chewing, or other actions involving tobacco should be placed in the same category as regular cigarettes.

Mr. Zheng also said that electronic the name “electronic cigarettes” entirely reflected the content of the product. She added that the foundation had received a lot of letters containing complaints that electronic cigarettes have been massively sold to teenagers, at the same time when regular cigarettes were banned. And that fact has given rise to may questions from ordinary people and conventional cigarettes producers.

The foundation also released the results of a survey they had conducted, according to which the number of smokers has decreased since the public smoking ban took effect. The survey was sent to almosto 350 companies among which only 20 have claimed that they had not followed the new regulation very rigorously.

The same day Taiwan Society of Health-Promoting Hospitals president Chi Shu made a declaration stating that those smokers who were consuming many electronic cigarettes within a short period of time might get a poisoning and even could die from it receiving an overdose of nicotine. He urged potential e-cigarettes consumers that they could also become addicted, like in the case with regular cigarettes.

Chi Shu declared that Hong Kong’s Department of Health would regulate e-cigarettes even more strictly than any conventional cigarettes.