Kochi, May 31 -- Despite ban, E-cigarettes are readily available unabated in India where iIIegal promotion of vapes, e-cigarettes and other new-age nicotine devices continues targeting adolescents and youths. Sharing insights and raising serious concern on this issue on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, Dr Naresh Purohit, Advisor, National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), in his investigative scientific report, pointed out how, despite a nationwide ban, the promotion and sale of nicotine devices remain rampant through digital loopholes, influencer marketing and surrogate advertising. "The ICMR's White Paper on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems , May 31, 2019, emphasised that e-cigarettes were highly addictive and, posed severe risks...