China has banned online sales of e-cigarettes in the latest blow for the nascent vaping industry, which has come under intensifying scrutiny around the globe.<\/p>\n
All websites and apps selling e-cigarettes should be shut down and all online marketing campaigns halted, said a statement by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration and State Administration for Market Regulation on Friday.<\/p>\n
The measures are aimed at protecting adolescents from vaping, it said.<\/p>\n
The directive also ordered online shopping platforms to remove e-cigarette products from their sites.<\/p>\n
The ban is the latest restriction on an industry whose fortunes have soured rapidly in the past few months as a mysterious lung disease linked to vaping affected hundreds and killed 37 people.<\/p>\n
Once seen as providing a useful tool to help smokers quit cigarettes, e-cigarettes are now banned by 27 countries including India and Australia, while Juul, the largest U.S. e-cigarette company, has been probed for marketing to teenagers.<\/p>\n
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