Gennady Onishchenko called for a ban on the sale of tobacco heating systems.
The devices work on the same principle as vape.
It is necessary to introduce restrictive measures at the federal level. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, former chief sanitary doctor of Russia, shared this opinion in a conversation with the radio station "Moscow Speaks".
Then [vapes - approx. GM], and others [tobacco heating systems - approx. GM] - they are all built on the principle of heating tobacco. It should be banned. It is bad that such a law is not adopted at the federal level. Thank God, at least the regions are doing it, but it's not enough. You can predict sunrise and floods. And when it occurs to someone to be responsible for the health of our people, it is unexpected. There is demagoguery about filling the budget and other things, they like to talk about this issue. And the fact that it lowers people's health and then costs the country much more does not worry anyone.