Yesterday the news made a real "buzz" on the web ... According to a dispatch published by AFP (Agence France Presse) e-cigarette would be "unquestionably harmful". If most of the media shared the information, it quickly found itself in the heart of the cyclone. Associations and many advocates of vaping today denounce a " irresponsible dispatch »Containing« false statements »And« false references"
AN “IRRESPONSIBLE DISPATCH” OF “FALSE DECLARATIONS”… AIDUCE GETS ITS FEET IN THE FLAT!
While emphasizing that there is not enough evidence that e-cigarettes are effective in stopping smoking, the WHO report presented by the AFP dispatch clarified yesterday " Although the level of risk associated with ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Delivery System) has not been conclusively measured, ENDS is undeniably harmful and therefore needs to be regulated. "
According to AIDUCE (Independent Association of Electronic Cigarette Users), there are no or more journalists at " the editorial staff of AFP or in the headlines of the press and TV". The association speaks of a " Irresponsible dispatch resumed without the slightest replay", A" report on private funding (Bloomberg Philanthropies) presented by WHO containing false claims And a " false reference to decisions of members of the WHO Framework Convention"
The subject below presents several false statements without the slightest verification or proportionality in the processing of information:
• it is not the WHO which declares a harmfulness but the opinion of a report, without the slightest element of proof (according to the very terms of the report)
• all liquids sold in Europe present a report on their content and emissions (ie “what's inside”) cfor even longer the liquids according to AFNOR standards
• there is no CO / CO2 or tar in the steam, this is the goal
• you seem to manipulate the statements of Loïc Josserand who visibly speaks of a heated tobacco system (shown in the image) and is falsely presented as speaking of vaping
• the theories of hypothetical transition from vaping to tobacco have never been founded and have been shown to be false even in the publications of Public Health France and OFDT - French Observatory for Drugs and Drug Addiction (and Public Health England) as well as in population in the data of the CDC)
• the effectiveness of #vape for stopping smoking has been recognized by health authorities for years and demonstrated by clinical studies.
Half a dozen #FakeNews in a subject, France 2 touches the record!
Please post a corrective and apology in your future editions, such irresponsible statements have very real health consequences as confirmed by recent publications of health authorities.
"INCREASED TRUST OF SMOKERS FOR E-CIGARETTE"
Le Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg, pulmonologist and President of Paris without tobacco also commented on the information disseminated by the media and on the report itself. According to him " Le WHO report 
on tobacco is front page e-cigarette while only 4 pages on 160 are dedicated to vaping. WHO recommends a regulation already applied in France and says that we do not know how much it is less harmful."
WHO report on tobacco is on the front page #ecigarette while 4 / 160 pages are devoted to #ecig. The WHO recommends a regulation already applied in France and says that we do not know to what extent it is less harmful than 🚬 and lack of study to prove stop. https://t.co/nexVLkAnIS
- Pr. B Dautzenberg (@parissanstabac) July 27, 2019
But Professor Dautzenberg goes further by specifying that " The WHO e-cigarette report isn't just negative when you read it. The e-cigarette is less harmful than tobacco and it helps to quit smoking (the downside would be the lack of study on the subject). ". Also, The WHO report a priori very clearly separates heated tobacco from e-cigarettes , which was not the last position taken by some "scholarly" European society, such as the ERS.
Rough media coverage of latest WHO report denouncing harmfulness #ecig will aggravate the mistrust of smokers towards ecig (while the WHO clearly says that the#ecig is less harmful than 🚬) deleterious effect on shutdown attempts😤👎. https://t.co/a7YSBpmdQ3
- Pr. B Dautzenberg (@parissanstabac) July 27, 2019
Finally, Bertrand Dautzenberg is worried about the repercussion of this "erroneous" information in the media " The approximate coverage by the media of the latest WHO report denouncing the harmfulness e-cigarette will aggravate the mistrust of smokers towards vaping"
"FILE A COMPLAINT FOR FAKENEWS" AGAINST THE MEDIA?
Some vaping players even go even further calling for attacking the media which have disseminated the information proposed by AFP. This is the case of Jacques Le Houezec who on the social network Facebook tries to rally the organizations that defend vaping: " AIDUCE, FIVAPE, SIIV, liquid manufacturers, distributors, it's up to you. File a complaint for fakenews and non-assistance to people in danger!"
