Vap'brèves offers you your flash e-cigarette news for the day of Tuesday, June 14, 2016. (News update at 10:40 a.m.)
| UNITED STATES |
NICOTINE IS IT SO INOFFENSIVE THAT CA? |
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 The blog Econotimes ask the question through an article. Is nicotine so harmless? Do vapers have reasons to defend the electronic cigarette as a risk reduction tool against tobacco? (See article) |
| SOUTH KOREA |
IMAGES OF WARNINGS ON CIGARETTE AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE PACKAGES |
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 The government decided on Tuesday to make it mandatory to insert warning images showing the harmful effects of tobacco on the top of cigarette packs from next December, the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs said . The decree also stipulates that warning images must appear on the packaging of electronic cigarettes and chewing tobacco, the ministry said. |
| SWITZERLAND |
THE TOBACCO PRODUCTS ACT DOES NOT LONG FIRE |
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 In Switzerland, the new law on tobacco products sank in the first parliamentary stage. The Council of States has sent back to Alain Berset his proposals to prevent against the misdeeds of smoking. (See article) |
| FRANCE |
JEAN PIERRE COUTERON IN THE DIRECT BOURDIN EMISSION ON RMC |
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 Jean Pierre Couteron of the Addiction Federation was this morning the guest of Jean Jacques Bourdin on RMC between 8h and 9h. Find his intervention directly on the Bourdin Direct program on RMC. |
| FRANCE |
REFUSAL OF POSTING OF THE MEDICINS OF THE WORLD CAMPAIGN: "DE LA CENSURE" |
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 Médecins du Monde denounces the exorbitant prices of certain drugs in a new shock campaign that will not be broadcast on conventional channels. Doctor Jean-François Corty, director of international operations of the association, speaks of “censorship” on RMC. (See article) |
| UNITED STATES |
A READING GUIDE FOR STUDIES ON "THE GATEWAY EFFECT" |
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 Clives Bates offers an eight-point evaluation guide to decipher the studies that suggest or seem to demonstrate the existence of a "bridging effect" of vaping towards smoking and to highlight the political motivations that often lurk behind it. (See article) |
