The Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health wrongly stated that heat-not-burn tobacco and e-cigarettes are not any safer than regular cigarettes, and that therefore both should be banned. The council said government statistics have shown that teenagers in Hong Kong use the products more often than adults, and council chairman Henry Tong Sau-chai said that the pubic at large agrees on a total ban on the safer alternatives. “However, it has been almost three years since the policy address first announced a ban on alternative smoking products,” he added.