Hong Kong authorities have issued four HK$3,000 fines within the first two days of implementing an expanded ban on alternative smoking products like e-cigarettes. Officials assured the public that inspectors would not conduct arbitrary body searches to enforce the new regulations. Enforcement and public education efforts have been ramped up in commercial districts.

Hong Kong authorities have issued four HK$3,000 (US$382) fines in the first two days of an expanded ban on alternative smoking products, while assuring the public that inspectors will not conduct arbitrary body searches to enforce the law. Manny Lam Man-chung, head of the Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office, said authorities stepped up enforcement and public education efforts in commercial districts since the ban on alternative smoking products – including e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products...