Vapes are in the news thanks to Riyan Parag. Vapes e cigarettes are totally illegal in India;smuggled from foreign countries. Read my piece from December in @fpjindia on how smuggling of Chinese vapes to Explained: What are e cigarettes? Why did the govt ban them? India Today India Upholds E Cigarette Ban, Rejects Philip Morris' Push India has reaffirmed its ban on e cigarettes and heated tobacco products, rejecting lobbying by Philip Morris International to allow its IQOS device in the British National Caught With E Cigarette at Mopa Airport Mopa Airport Police registered against Claire Louise Dunn (43), a UK national, after CISF officials found an e cigarette worth 10,000 hidden in her clothing E CIGARETTES IN INDIA: THE LEGAL PERSPECTIVE AND ONGOING CHALLENGES" ITCs e cigarettes likely to hit ban roadblock