Vap'brèves offers you your flash e-cigarette news for the day of Monday, May 30, 2016. (News update at 21:17 a.m.)
| FRANCE | ONDP SUPPORTS THE MINISTRY IN ITS ACTION AGAINST SMOKING |
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 The National Order of Pharmacists supports and welcomes the new order announced last week by Marisol Touraine, Minister for Social Affairs and Health, who transposes the EU directive to strengthen the fight against smoking and creates a fund for smoking prevention. The National Association of Pharmacists will join two communication campaigns launched by the Ministry to encourage smoking cessation. It has already begun working with unions and pharmacist groups to mobilize the profession as a whole to participate in informing the public and relaying prevention and public health messages on the harmful effects of tobacco. |
| GERMANY | DISCOVER THE INTERVIEW OF PR GERD GIGERENZER |
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 Interview Prof Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Harding Center, on the increased risks due to misinformation, including sensationalism in numbers (See article) |
| LUXEMBOURG | THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER WILL ACCELERATE! |
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 Cancer is responsible for more than 1 deaths each year in Luxembourg, or 000% of the causes of death. In men it is even the first cause of death, in women it is the second. By further accelerating the fight against the disease, the Minister of Health, Lydia Mutsch, said on Monday that she hoped to reduce the number of cancers by a third. To achieve this, she presented several areas of work ranging from prevention to treatment through the prohibition of electronic cigarettes. (See article) |
| FRANCE | DO THE TOBACCO CONTROL MEASURES WORK REALLY? |
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 Instant pleasure or real addiction, for a third of the French, impossible to make a cross on the cigarette. The anti-smoking campaigns of the government do nothing for this group of irreducible smokers, who still can not resist the call of nicotine. The arrival of the neutral package, entered into force last May 20, completes the arsenal deployed against smoking. But are these measures sufficient? On the occasion of this World No Tobacco Day on Tuesday, 20 Minutes takes stock of the French fight against this addiction, which costs 80.000 people every year. (See article) |
| FRANCE | WHO: PREPARE FOR NEUTRAL PACKAGING! |
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| AUSTRALIA | AUSTRALIA'S SHOCK MEASURES AGAINST TOBACCO |
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After the neutral package and the prohibitive prices, the Australian government wants to ban the sale of tobacco to people born after 2001. A leave from September 2017, every year, for four years, the price of cigarette packs will increase by 12,5%. It will amount to nearly 27 euros in 2020. Another restrictive measure: smokers will have to renounce zero-rated cartridges from airports or brought back from abroad: only 25 cigarettes per traveler, compared to 50 so far, are now authorized per traveler. (See the article)
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| FRANCE | THE STEAM GEEK EXPATRIATES IN SWITZERLAND. |
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 Following the EU directive on tobacco, the blog " Steam Geek »Decided to emigrate to Switzerland. " From a personal blog in its infancy, the steam geek turned into a collective. And since Switzerland is not yet part of Europe, and it is slow to change its law on tobacco products, Swiss citizens can still write what they want to propose the vape. Reason why the zozieau will assume the responsibility of "responsible editorial" or any pompous name that could be given to him and takes charge of the domain name. "(view article) |
| NEW ZEALAND | ILLEGAL SALE OF CIGARETTE MAY ENCOURAGE ADDICTION BY MINORS. |
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 For some health care professionals, single-unit sales of cigarettes may encourage children to smoke. A tobacconist west of Auckland has been convicted of selling single cigarettes for $ 1,50. For the Dr Brad Novak, Physician Auckland Regional Public Health Service of health "Les cigarettes on the unit were "too easy" to obtain for children and adolescents. "(view article) |
| INDIA | MORE THAN 70% OF PEOPLE DECLARE IGNORE WARNINGS ON CIGARETTE PACKAGES |
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 With the debate about the size of the warnings present on cigarette packs, " ICICI Lombard Survey Proposed polled the population in order to have their feelings. It turns out that for 72% of people surveyedThe warnings on the cigarette packets will not change their consumption. It's only Present in several = 24% think that a tax could help smokers to end smoking. Finally, Present in several = 41% of respondents think it would be a good idea to ban smoking in public places. |
