If it is becoming more and more frequent to see an e-cigarette in American series or films, it is on the other hand more rare to find oneself faced with an unfounded criticism of the effects of vaping in a public broadcast. This is however what happened in episode 11 of season 16 of " Grey's Anatomy Which presents the manufacturers of e-cigarettes as "devils".
THE GAME OF FEAR AGAINST VAPE, THE FIVAPE MOUNTS AT THE CRENEAU!
Has vaping become a new disease to be treated by the medical teams of successful television series? Although this is mind-boggling stupidity, everything suggests that the recent unfounded scandals against vaping are resurfacing in the heart of society today through popular television series. On Wednesday evening, the French channel TF1 broadcast episode 11 of season 16 of " Grey's Anatomy“, A series that tells the story of a fictitious teaching hospital, Seattle Grace.
We await the decision of #THAT'S IT on the lying episode of #GreysAnatomy last night. The #vape save lives, public authorities must help us by protecting our fellow citizens from misinformation! https://t.co/qS88YtISxg
- FIVAPE (@FIVAPE) April 16, 2020
Except that this time, some sequences have sowed concern among many vapers and smokers. Indeed, in this episode, a doctor presents the lungs of a young athletic student and vapoteur judged "similar to a 60 year old smoker"While attacking vaping professionals head-on by presenting them as" diables"
It didn't take more than the FIVAPE (Interprofessional Federation of the Vape) goes up to the niche and seizes the CSA even before the broadcast of the episode, already available for purchase or rental on the VOD platform of the channel.
This week, an episode of Grey's anatomy is inspired by the “EVALI” crisis, the wave of pneumonia which occurred in the United States during the summer of 2019 incriminating vaping. A look back at a public health “misinformation” campaign.https://t.co/ON96fi3LVP
- sovape_en (@sovape_en) April 13, 2020
«It's a scenario aberration, deplores the president of the federation, Jean Moiroud. We respect creative works, and we are not happy to attack an American series. But we have to step up to the plate as the situations and comments made in this episode are an exercise in quasi-propaganda.»
In its approach to the CSA, Fivape has also received the support of the professor Bertrand Dautzenberg, former pulmonologist and tobacco specialist, who judges the extracts of the episode "caricatured" "and stresses that"vaping is the first smoking cessation product in France».
You want to know, @csaudiovisuel et @TF1, my evening? Reassure worried people.
A fiction fucks up months of work. If you don't mind people getting back to smoking, especially right now, it breaks me. Because I know where it leads, the cigarette. pic.twitter.com/VE0cPEPyZs- I do not smoke anymore ! #JNFP (@JeNeFumePlus) April 15, 2020
«Grey's AnatomyIs not the only medical series to address the subject. The next seasons of "New Amsterdam"And"Chicago With", Both also broadcast on TF1, each offer an episode staging a similar plot, with a young patient seriously affected in the lungs.
For their part, some fans of the series rather point to a poor French translation of the episode which would actually deal with " from the history of adulterated e-liquids And not vaping as a whole. The blow remains harsh for FIVAPE and several associations helping smokers who denounce " ua fiction that fucks up months of work."
Source : Leparisien.fr / Twitter
