PARIS – Following a request by French Health Minister Marisol Touraine earlier this year to investigate the risks of e-cigarettes, a panel of experts has returned a report urging their regulation, France 24 reports.

Released earlier this week, the report recommended that e-cigarettes should not be banned, acknowledging that their usage appears to reduce damage caused by cigarettes. However, it did argue for their ban in all places where traditional cigarettes are prohibited.

“Even if the knowledge on these products is advancing rapidly, there still are many points of uncertainty,” it stated. “We cannot wait for established scientific data to start proposing recommendations” for the use of e-cigarettes.

The report detailed 28 recommendations, including banning the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and applying the same advertising rules for tobacco products to e-cigarettes.