Health study on Wednesday with the autonomous regulation of electronic cigarettes

This has been confirmed to Europa Press department Ana Mato, who also advanced that the topics to be discussed with the heads of health of the communities are the new system of reference prices for drugs, order drugs regulate homeopathic or a report on the implementation of e - health in Spain .

With regard to electronic cigarettes , Parliament agreed last October that these products should be regulated as snuff products in the new European directive is being prepared on this subject , which the Spanish government "supports" since " allowed to assess the quality , safety and efficacy " of these products.

This was recently recognized by the Executive in a parliamentary answer , which warned that these cigarettes are " problematic " because they have not been evaluated by the authorities of any country.

Catalonia already announced a month preparing a law to adapt these products to the current anti-smoking law in 2014 and reach that can not be smoking in any enclosed public or private space ago.

The Ministry argue that their objective is to regulate these products in line with what was agreed in Brussels, but do not clarify whether the comparison of these products to be as proposed snuff if Catalunya and lead to a modification of the current anti-smoking law , whose reform has been talking in recent months because of the draft Eurovegas .

The Minister of Health of the Junta de Castilla y León, Antonio María Sáez Aguado, has advanced to Wednesday's meeting whether to defend the Ministry impulse rules with "national character" to avoid " a different regulation" in different regions.

The regulation of these products also seems to have the support of the rest of the opposition , as both the Socialist Party and CiU in Congress have been two initiatives to require the Executive to regulate their consumption and marketing.

Socialists point out that these products cause certain dose of nicotine through a process of electronic heating and therefore its use should be regulated , while CiU alert that minors can buy these products.