Vap'Breves offers you your flash e-cigarette news for the 1er Mai 2018 Tuesday. (Update the news at 10h29.)
UNITED KINGDOM: VAPING DOES NOT AFFECT THE MICROBIOME!
The first study of this type revealed that users of electronic cigarettes have the same mix of intestinal bacteria as non-smokers while smokers have significant changes in their microbiome. (See article)
JAPAN: JAPAN TOBACCO LIMITS RECOVERY OF BENEFITS WITH ACQUISITIONS
Japan Tobacco posted slightly lower profits in the first quarter of 2018, limiting the decline thanks to the increase in its sales of cigarettes abroad where the Japanese tobacco giant has made several acquisitions recently. (See article)
FRANCE: AGAINST ATTACK BY CIGARETTIERS AGAINST PRICE RISE
The government decided on a historic increase in tobacco taxes in March 2018. Rather than increasing the price of packets, tobacco companies prefer to bet on volume, as the journalist Hervé Godechot explains, (See article)
