Indonesia may join growing vaping ban after illness reaches Asia

The world’s second-largest tobacco market, Indonesia, is weighing a total ban on electronic cigarettes, joining a growing number of nations cracking down on vaping due to health concerns.

The Indonesian government is working on revising existing e-cigarette regulations, said Mr Anung Sugihantono, the Health Ministry’s director general of disease control and prevention. “The ministry’s stance is consistent: We want to ban, not limit, vaping and e-cigarettes,” he said in a text message this week.

The move comes a week after a teenager in central Philippines who had been vaping for six months and also smoking cigarettes was diagnosed with a lung injury