On the eve of a real upheaval in the world of vaping, Fivape, inter-professional federation of vaping, denounces the entry into force and the terms of application in France of the European directive 2014/40 / EU, this 20 May 2016, for all measures relating to vaping products.
“Paris, May 19, 2016
The Fivape, an inter-professional federation of the vape, denounces the entry into force and the conditions of application in France of the European directive 2014 / 40 / EU, this 20 May 2016, for all the measures relating to vaping products.
While the e-cigarette consensus places it over the months as an effective tool in reducing tobacco-related and tobacco-related risks, mainstreaming vape with conventional tobacco products, among other things, the measures relating to advertising and propaganda are of a grotesque nature, by placing the poison and the antidote on an equal footing.
The transposition of the European directive creates serious dangers for the information of smokers, their entourage as well as vapers, while vaping has already enabled a million French people to stop their tobacco consumption [1].
Marisol Touraine holds a responsibility for the 3 million French vapers
The advances resulting from the Vape Summit on May 9th should not obscure the essential: the positions of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, health professionals, anti-tobacco associations, consumer groups and institutions engaged in the field of risk reduction must now be translated into concrete actions.
While the European directive adopted in 2014 is obsolete with regard to the meteoric evolution of vaping products, it is important not to hinder the uses of the 3 million French vapers [2], favoring the open and independent systems of the multinationals of the tobacco. Only a separate regulation of tobacco and truly appropriate to vaping products will make it possible to account for a breakthrough innovation capable of stopping the hecatomb of smoking.
As part of the regulatory measures that will come soon, the public authorities have the duty to support the independent sector of the vape in a proportionate, conscious and responsible, while 80 000 annual deaths related to tobacco in our country are erected, rightly, as a public health priority.
Faced with a smoking prevalence among the highest in Europe, can France reasonably avoid the advances offered by vaping products? The example of the United Kingdom, which includes vaping in the arsenal against tobacco and holds it at least 95% less harmful than conventional tobacco [3], demonstrates the possibilities of another policy for vaping. "
Source : Fivape
