SriLanka, May 3 -- The Ministry of Health will strengthen the country's already tough regulatory stance on nicotine products with moves under way to ban e-cigarettes as part of sweeping reforms to create a tobacco-free generation.

Chairman of the National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol (NATA), Dr. Ananda Ratnayake told the Sunday Observer yesterday that legal recommendations have been presented to Health and Mass Media Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa to close any gaps in the existing legislation.

The proposed amendments seek to eliminate the use of all types of e-cigarettes and vaping devices, strengthening laws that already prohibit their sale, import and manufacture. Dr. Ratnayake said Minister Dr. Jayatissa had welcomed the move, wh...