Angel Valdes | March 16, 2023
José Recuero from the Association for the Reduction of Harm by Smoking explained on Radio Panama the bill that was presented in the National Assembly to regulate the commercialization of electronic nicotine systems.
“This proposal, draft bill 209, seeks to create the regulation, and initially it was well received, it was brought to a work table of the Health Commission and there the issue was appeased because the current law that governs the issue came into being. 315 this law has a particularity, when it reaches the executive initially in its draft law, the executive partially vetoes it because this law prohibits importation, marketing and says that electronic cigarettes cannot be used in areas where tobacco is not allowed There is no problem with that, that is excellent, the problem is that this law leaves us in a gray area»