Excluding tobacco for manufacturing purposes, the excise duty rate for other smoking tobaccos, homogenized or reconstituted tobaccos, chewing tobaccos, or snuff tobaccos has been raised per kilogram from 22 manats to 162 manats for local production, and from 30 manats to 170 manats for import.
They also are laden with plastics, toxins and metals that represent a burgeoning and potentially explosive waste problem, for which e-cigarette manufacturers have provided little consumer guidance
In recent years, the CSPC has issued recalls on a number of products that had caused poisoning
"While the FDA has authorized the sale of only 34 e-cigarette products, manufacturers continue to flood the market with thousands of illegal, unauthorized products," Richardson said in a statement
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