Vap'News offers you flash news about the e-cigarette for Thursday 24 May 2018. (Update the news at 08h26.)
FRANCE: THE E-CIGARETTE INDUSTRY FIGHTS TO STAND OUT FROM TOBACCO
The electronic cigarette market would amount to 1 billion euros in turnover in France. Charly Pairaud, on the initiative of the next open forum of the Interprofessional Federation of Vape (Fivape), which will be held in Bordeaux on May 28, presents the major challenges of this new sector: independence vis-à-vis the industry tobacco, health risks, French know-how and the growth of an innovative market. (See article)
CANADA: ENTRY INTO FORCE OF S-5 BILL
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of illness and premature death in Canada. Canada. A Canadian dies of a disease associated with smoking every 12 minutes. Today, Bill S-5, An Act to amend the Tobacco Act, the Non-smokers' Health Act and other Acts Consequently received royal assent. This is an important step in efforts to reduce the dangers of smoking in the Canadasystem. (See article)
CANADA: HEART + AVC WELCOMES REVISION TO TOBACCO LAW
Heart & Stroke applauds the innovative and bold changes proposed by the federal government to the Tobacco Act. With the passage of Bill S-5, the government is now enforcing plain and standardized packaging for tobacco products, regulating vaping products and requiring the display of health warnings directly on cigarettes. (See article)
UNITED STATES: INHALATION OF NICOTIN E-LIQUIDS ALTERS PULMONARY FUNCTION
“Our data suggest that when used in electronic cigarettes, cinnamaldehyde, like the toxic aldehydes in cigarette smoke, significantly disrupts normal cell physiology, which may have consequences for the development and exacerbation of disease. respiratory, ”explains Dr. Ilona Jaspers of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (See article)
SENEGAL: COUNTRY LEADERSHIP URGES TO FIGHT TOBACCO
The head of the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (CCLAT) called on Senegal's “leadership” to “reflect” on strategies for the visibility and implementation of the convention in the other countries of the sub-region. West African region of which it is part. (See article)
