Poland would consider applying the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) even more strictly than what was recommended by the European Union. The government is likely to ban online and cross-border sales for vaping.
The Polish government has therefore decided to go strong and ban online and cross-border sales, which risks effectively eliminating the availability of vaping products in many parts of the country.
TPD must be implemented by all EU member countries. However, the rules allow each country to transpose it as a minimum or even more strictly than necessary. In other words, the Polish government is free to add new restrictions, and that is exactly what they have decided to do. In this case we can clearly speak of "over-regulation».
« Several hundred businesses that sell only online will simply be wiped out of the market, Says Miroslaw Dworniczak on the website Web Nicotine Science and Policy.
« A lot of people are going to lose their jobs. And the worst part is that hundreds of thousands of Polish vapers, living in small towns and villages, will no longer have access to e-cigarettes and e-liquids. "
For information, Miroslaw Dworniczak is a chemist, freelance science journalist and lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He is also editor of a Polish blog on e-cigarettes.
He explains that in Poland, thedefenders of the vape asked the Minister of Health as well as other government officials to engage in a review of the TPD and its application in 
the country " Many e-mails were sent, accompanied by scientific articles on the e-cigarettes, however, there were several phone calls and some conversations"Announces Dworniczak.
«Many official petitions have been sent au Prime Minister and the Polish President. Alas, no leader of the Ministry of Health wanted to meet the representatives of the vape community to discuss these important questions. This campaign failed to produce theexpected changes in the law Project "
The Polish House of Parliament passed the law on July 8. After Senate approval, it must be signed by the President. Miroslaw Dworniczak predicts that this new regulation will be in place in the middle of August.
