Commerce Ministry officials proposed banning imports of e-cigarettes and hookah/shisha products after the National Council for Peace and Order said their use must be controlled, the Bangkok Post reported.

Officials at the Department of Foreign Trade, a unit of the Commerce Ministry, proposed the import bans be attached as a regulation to the Export and Import of Goods Act, the newspaper said on its website. Calls to curtail their use came in response to their growing popularity among youth, the Post said.