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Medical students from 29 institutions oppose easing e-cigarette and HTP restrictions
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Medical students from 29 institutions have urged a parliamentary committee to keep Thailand’s bans on importing and selling e-cigarettes and other new tobacco products, saying some Thai children start vaping as young as 7.
Key facts
- Medical students from 29 institutions have urged a parliamentary committee to keep Thailand’s bans on importing and selling e-cigarettes and other new tobacco products, saying some Thai children start vaping as young as 7.
- On 22 October, Sakoltee Phattiyakul, a Democrat Party MP and chairman of the House Public Health Committee, received a petition from representatives of the Medical Students’ Federation of Thailand, medical student clubs and military
- A federation representative cited Thailand’s latest national health survey, conducted in 2025, which found that the number of e-cigarette users aged 10–19 had more than doubled, from 200,000 to 420,000
- The representative said primary-school children had been found experimenting with e-cigarettes from the age of 7.
Summary
On 22 October, Sakoltee Phattiyakul, a Democrat Party MP and chairman of the House Public Health Committee, received a petition from representatives of the Medical Students’ Federation of Thailand, medical student clubs and military medical students from 29 institutions nationwide.
The students called on Parliament and the government to retain the bans on importing and selling e-cigarettes and new tobacco products.