{"id":2266,"date":"2025-08-23T21:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:49:50","slug":"total-vape-ban-coming-russias-top-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/total-vape-ban-coming-russias-top-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Total vape ban coming \u2013\u00a0Russia\u2019s top MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The decision could be made within the next two months, according to State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian lawmakers will draft a bill to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes, also known as vapes, and related liquids, within the next couple of months, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on the Russian Max platform on Saturday, he argued that <em>\u201cvapes and other electronic cigarettes are harmful to human health and can lead to severe illnesses.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Gleb Nikitin asked President Vladimir Putin to grant local authorities the power to impose region-wide bans on vapes. Putin supported the idea.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal echoes several previous initiatives put forward by other regional heads, as well as parents and school teachers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Volodin, even though a law banning the sale of electronic cigarettes and nicotine-containing liquids to minors was adopted back in 2023, <em>\u201cwe see that these measures are not enough\u201d<\/em> to curb the practice.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/608599-stronger-smoking-ban-proposal\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Russian MP proposes ban on \u2018smoking while walking\u2019<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Advocating a blanket ban on vapes in June, Volodin argued that <em>\u201cvape liquids contain heavy metals, and toxic compounds,\u201d<\/em> and insisted that their harmful effects are beyond doubt.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 SuperJob poll indicated a considerable rise in the use of electronic cigarettes among the Russian population in recent years, with 21% estimated to be using exclusively vapes, and another 16% alternating between electronic and traditional cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>That same year, RIA Novosti reported that between 3.5 and 4 million Russians were using electronic nicotine delivery systems.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision could be made within the next two months, according to State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin Russian lawmakers will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}