VAP'BREVES: The news of Monday 20 June 2016

VAP'BREVES: The news of Monday 20 June 2016

Vap'brèves offers you your flash e-cigarette news for the day of Monday, June 20, 2016. (News update at 13:00 a.m.)

FRANCE
NEUTRAL PACKAGE: MORALIZER AND DANGEROUS FOR HEALTH!
France Cigarette Packets-by-Sludge-GCC-BY-SA-2.0With the neutral package, we will dictate to a company how it should market its products. This amounts to affecting one's freedom to trade and the freedom of the individual.Read the article)

 

FRANCE
BREAST CANCER: SMOKING DECREASES THE EFFECTS OF COMMON TREATMENT.
France 4928705_6_5168_en-2020-le-prix-du-paquet-de-cigarette_71281d791d2aebf68e615bfb49e2b929In addition to causing cancer, tobacco is also believed to interfere with anti-cancer treatments. According to a study from Lund University (Sweden), smoking considerably reduces the effectiveness of a very common treatment for breast cancer, aromatase inhibitors. Unpublished data published in the British Journal of Cancer (BJC). (Read the article)

 

UK
E-CIGARETTE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN REDUCING RISKS IN YOUNG PEOPLE
Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg E-Cigarettes_0According to a new document from the UK Center for Substance Use Research, it appears that e-cigarettes play an important role in reducing the number of smokers among young people. In fact, during this study comprising young people aged 18 to 25, the majority of responses show that e-cigarettes decrease the probability of entering into smoking. (Read the article)

 

AUSTRALIA
PROHIBITION OF SAYING THAT THE E-CIGARETTE IS NOT CARCINOGENIC!
Flag_of_Australia_ (converted) .svg 1214885-united American-banned cigarette-electronicsAustralia's consumer watchdog has launched a Federal Court lawsuit against two e-cigarette retailers, claiming the companies have misled consumers. The retailers in question claimed that their products were not carcinogenic.Read the article)

 

FRANCE
BIO CONCEPT OBTAINS THE "ORIGINE FRANCE GARANTIE" LABEL
France Logo-origin-France-guaranteeYves Jégo, president and founder of Pro France and deputy-mayor of Montereau (Seine-et-Marne), recently awarded the Origine France Garantie label to the “Bio-Concept” company which produces e-liquids. (Read the article)

 

SWITZERLAND
A PROMOTION OF IQOS BY PHILIPP MORRIS.
Swiss IQOSHow Philip Morris pushes to devalue vaping to better promote his heated-unburned tobacco product. Typical example of this lobbying in the Swiss media: the NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Zurich newspaper has multiplied articles of gross disinformation against vaping, while praising iqos despite the lack of scientific study independent ... (Translation : P.Poirson) (Read the article)

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Editor and correspondent Switzerland. Vapoteuse for many years, I take care mainly of Swiss news.