Following the vote of the deputies on the aspects of the law of health relating to the electronic cigarette, The AIDUCE (Independent Association of Electronic Cigarette Users) decided to publish a press release that we relay you here.
L'Aiduce notes today with dismay - but unfortunately without much surprise - the vote of the deputies on aspects of the health law relating to the electronic cigarette, the ban on its advertising or its use in many places the government to transpose into French law Article 20 of the European Directive on Tobacco Products.
Thus, our relentless efforts, supported by many specialists to present to elected officials the realities of vaping, and the tremendous potential in terms of public health of this tool that has enabled French 1.000.000 to stop smoking, will not have not weighed heavily in the face of rantings about the so-called "seduction" of a gesture, or the imaginary risk of seeing cohorts of young people precipitated in the smoking Gehenna. To the reality of the facts, as they have been exposed by most French and foreign institutions and scientists, to the call of 120 French doctors, and the results of the work carried out under the aegis of the health authorities of a country that is really stopping a mortifying practice, our deputies will have preferred the vertigo of their fertile imagination, or the valiant policy of the godillot.
And most importantly, to a responsible risk-reduction goal, or to the health of those who have kept away from tobacco through the e-cigarette - or those who may have been many yet - they will have preferred their image and the false illusion that they will give themselves to "fight against the Beast". Which act. But illusions dissipate, and the future alone will tell us if some "scandal of the smokers sacrificed" will one day remind them of the courage they refused today to show.
Not content to hinder the use of a product guilty of not leaving the factories of the pharmaceutical industry, they will have singed the provisions against tobacco to prohibit communication and expression on this simple consumer product that no does not even contain it. That French 1.000.000 saved from smoking are silent! The legislator now forbids them to say that vaping has succeeded for them.
For Aiduce, however, the fight continues. In October 2014, the Council of State issued reservations and recommendations concerning prohibitions on e-cigarettes that do not respect the constitutional principles on which the Republic is based. We now have to turn to these higher administrative jurisdictions to ensure that true public health and the fundamental freedom to act or speak without harming others are forever sacrificed to verbiage, speculation and posturing. , except for certain industrial or corporatist interests.
Beyond issues of smoking or public health, we will also act to protect the citizens of this country from the overly fertile imagination of some of our elected officials, from the politics of entertainment and its procession of misinformation, and the risk of to see falling on them prohibitions ever more arbitrary and improbable.
Source : AIDUCE
