The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) has directed all registered education institutions to conduct special drives to check availability and use of electronic cigarettes in its premises. In a notification issued on 8th May 2024, the Board suggested random frisking to be carried out to ensure that such products are not being used or sold.

The Board has also urged schools to organise initiate drives aimed at educating and sensitizing students and teachers at schools to create awareness about the menace as well as the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sales, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Act. 2019.

NBSE stated that an electronic cigarette or vape is a device that simulates tobacco smoking which contain potentially harmful substances such as nicotine, lead and cancer-causing agents that is a major threat to health, particularly among young children.

All registered schools are requested to inform and issue necessary instructions to their students to refrain from using such products, NBSE notified.