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	Health organisation warns devices should be regulated and not smoked indoors</p>
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	The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a long-awaited report today on electronic cigarettes that called for regulation of the devices and their contents, as well as bans on indoor use, advertising and sales to minors.</p>
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	The United Nations health agency, in a report to be debated by member states at a meeting in October, voiced concern at the concentration of the multi-billion dollar market in the hands of transnational tobacco companies.</p>
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	The WHO urged a range of &ldquo;regulatory options&rdquo;, including prohibiting e-cigarette makers from making health claims- such as that they help people quit smoking - until they provide &ldquo;convincing supporting scientific evidence and obtain regulatory approval&rdquo;.</p>
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	E-cigarettes should be regulated to &ldquo;minimise content and emissions of toxicants&rdquo;, and those solutions with fruit, candy-like and alcohol-drinks flavours should be banned, it said, and vending machines should be removed in almost all locations.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/who-calls-for-ban-on-e-cigarettes-for-minors-1.1908246">http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/who-calls-for-ban-on-e-cigarettes-for-minors-1.1908246</a></p>
