{"id":32638,"date":"2026-10-20T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=32638"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:27:54","slug":"parents-welcome-restrictions-on-vaping-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/parents-welcome-restrictions-on-vaping-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents\u00a0welcome restrictions on\u00a0vaping products\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Nakasia Logan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days after President Ali announced restrictions on the importation of vapes and vaping products, parents and students are welcoming the move, saying it could help protect children from the potential dangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restrictions prohibit the importation of vapes of all kinds, except&nbsp;where&nbsp;approved by the Minister of Health or the relevant tobacco control authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parents say the availability of these products, including&nbsp;flavoured&nbsp;varieties, is a growing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loydia Ross said, \u201c<strong>Im\u00a0in agreement with the ban I don\u2019t think children should be involved because it is a form of smoking and it would encourage them more to go ahead and smoke naturally<\/strong>.\u201d <br>Another parent,\u00a0Washington\u00a0Mingo\u00a0supports the move, saying vaping could expose children to further risks. He says\u00a0he recently confiscated a vape his son brought home from school.<br><br>\u201c<strong>He brought one home from&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>school<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;and I took it away and I threw it away, he told me some child had it and he&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>tek<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;it&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I told him\u00a0its\u00a0not good for him, you guys keep pulling at it and\u00a0yall\u00a0don\u2019t know what it has inside but you guys keeping pulling in and blowing out , whosoever make it that is what we going with but we have no idea what is vape really and what it make with<\/strong>,\u201d Mingo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ali says the restrictions are intended to strengthen public health protections, particularly for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201d<strong>This measure in necessary in light of growing concerns over the \u00a0widespread\u00a0and unregulated importation sale and use of vape and vaping products in Guyana. As a responsible government we have a duty to\u00a0product\u00a0public health<\/strong>.\u201dhe said. <br>The Pan American Health Organisation warns that e-cigarettes are not harmless. They heat liquid into an aerosol that users inhale, and most contain highly addictive nicotine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their use is also associated with respiratory and cardiovascular problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organization reports that 5.4 percent of adolescents in the Americas use e-cigarettes, raising concerns about their popularity among young people.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2009\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-scaled.jpeg 2009w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-235x300.jpeg 235w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-804x1024.jpeg 804w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-768x979.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-1205x1536.jpeg 1205w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-6-1607x2048.jpeg 1607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2009px) 100vw, 2009px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Nakasia Logan Days after President Ali announced restrictions on the importation of vapes and vaping products, parents and students are welcoming the move, saying it could help protect children&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,350],"tags":[488,448,412,405],"class_list":["post-32638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-security","category-news","tag-488","tag-ncn","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32639,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32638\/revisions\/32639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}