While the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn declared a few days ago not to "be against" a packet of cigarettes at 10 euros and to be skeptical of the effectiveness of electronic cigarettes, the reactions on the subject have followed one another.
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO FAVORABLE TO PROMOTE VAPOTAGE?
A few days ago, Agnès Buzyn announced in thecolumns of the Parisian not "to be against" an increase in the packet of cigarettes to ten euros, an idea that Emmanuel Macron had put forward when he was only a candidate, in March. Regarding the electronic cigarette, this one has already expressed its skepticism by invoking the "little scientific evidence to consider it an effective toolIn the fight against smoking.
As an answer, the Confederation of tobacconists quickly reacted with a statement that "reaffirms its total oppositionTo such a measure, preferring "to make the fight against the parallel market a priority of Public Health". Regarding the tobacco industry, Élodie Marchand, responsible for the communication for France of British American Tobacco judge that he would have been " more useful to promote the electronic cigarette"
Le National Committee Against Smoking (NCTC) welcomed the statements of the new Minister of Health and her Director Emmanuelle Béguinot has taken the opportunity to highlight the "Acute knowledge»Of the question of smoking by Ms. Buzyn, former president of the National Cancer Institute (INCa).
Source : Lessentiel.lu/
