Vap'Brèves offers you your e-cigarette flash update for the 18 April 2017 Tuesday. (Update the news to 10h41).
FRANCE: THE REAL FALSE CIGARETTE OF PHILIP MORRIS ALREADY VERY CRITICIZED
The Iqos, the new creation of tobacco giant Philip Morris, is due to arrive in French tobacconists in May. The dangerousness of this gadget which heats tobacco instead of burning it is still quite uncertain, but its opponents denounce a way for the industrialist to sell his product by deceiving the consumer. (See article)
UNITED STATES: CDC REPORT SHOWS INCREASE IN USE OF E-CIGARETTE TO STOP TOBACCO
A CDC report shows that more and more smokers are trying to quit smoking by using e-cigarettes. (See article)
FRANCE: TOBACCO DURING PREGNANCY CAN AFFECT THE WEIGHT OF BABY
Even a "low" consumption of tobacco during pregnancy significantly reduces the weight of the baby at birth compared to that of a mother who has stopped smoking, a French study points out. For the head of the “Addictology” department of the Félix-Guyon CHU, Doctor David Mété, “the ideal is to stop smoking”. (See article)
