Indonesia will impose a new tax on e-cigarettes from Jan. 1, adding to an excise tax to help curb vaping, the finance ministry said on Saturday. Southeast Asia’s largest economy has set the additional tax at 10 percent of the excise tariff for electronic cigarettes, which are devices that heat a liquid containing nicotine to create a vapor that users …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Thailand to strengthen its law enforcement and monitoring system for vaping or electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), warning that the country could face a severe mass tragic addiction in the future if it fails to do so. Dr Jos Vandelaer, the WHO representative to Thailand, made the remarks on Monday at a forum hosted by …