By Samachar Vishesh
News
Chandigarh 17th September:- To save livelihoods of Indian farmers from the
multinational groups, Bharatiya Kisan Union has appealed to Agriculture and
Commerce Minister seeking complete ban on e-cigarettes and vaping products in
India.
In a press
statement released here on Tuesday, Jagjeet Singh Dallewala from Bharatiya
Kisan Union said that if e-cigarettes or electronic nicotine
delivery systems (ENDS)
are allowed in India, the trade will have a devastating effect on the tobacco
farmers in India. The main reason is that the e-cigarette companies who are
trying to open shops in India are from foreign origin and does not use Indian
tobacco. In fact, the countries that these e-cigarettes belong to like United States
of America have also banned them.
He said
further that overall, more than 30 countries have banned these e-cigarettes /
ENDS and other countries are planning to ban them. The tobacco growing
countries like Thailand, Nepal, Brazil, Mexico, Sri Lanka have also banned ENDS
to save the livelihoods of their farmers.
Jagjeet
Singh Dallewala asserted that a very small group of farmers and merchants are
feeding false information that ENDS will help Indian tobacco farmers. He said
that on the other hand for products like ENDS, extraction of nicotine from
tobacco mostly happens from outside India and the tobacco used is also grown
outside India.
Also, the
raw material used to manufacture nicotine is the tobacco dust produced while
processing chewing and beedi tobacco. The farmers do not produce any fresh
quantity of tobacco to extract nicotine. Their advice of loss of export
potential of nicotine will negatively impact farmers are also wrong as
presently there are no restrictions on exports of nicotine. The introduction of
ENDS will put further stress on the Indian tobacco farmers as they are already
stressed due to high regulation and taxation, he maintained.
All the
tobacco growing farming states are states are demanding a complete ban of
e-cigarettes and vaping products. Bharatiya Kisan Union also appeals to government
to save the livelihoods of Indian farmers by banning ENDS.
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