As a debate rages in India over the use of e-cigarettes as a harm-reduction product and its impact on the younger generation, healthcare professionals from around the world gathered in Poland to discuss safer use of nicotine. Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), popularly called e-cigarettes, are battery-powered vaporisers that simulate the effects of smoking by providing some of the behavioral aspects of smoking, such as the hand-to-mouth action, without combusting tobacco in the process. Presently, about 3 per cent of adults in India are aware about e-cigarettes and an estimated 0.02 per cent of the population use it. Going tough on e-cigarettes, the health ministry
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