Vap'News offers you your flash news around the e-cigarette for Monday 21 January 2019 day. (Update the news at 11h20.)
FRANCE: A “FAKE NEWS” YELLOW VESTS / E-CIGARETTE
The photo of a seriously burned young man is circulating on Twitter. This alleged victim of a deafening grenade, Saturday during act 10 of the yellow vests in Toulouse, is in reality a Canadian injured by the explosion of his electronic cigarette in 2016. (See article)
FRANCE: HOW THE STATE HELPS BURALISTS TO REDUCE TOBACCO DEPENDENCE
The State will devote 80 million euros to a "transformation plan" of tobacco shops. Aid of up to 33.000 euros will be paid to tobacconists who wish to renovate their point of sale. Objective: to enable them to diversify their activity. (See article)
USA: ALTRIA IN DISCUSSION TO INVEST IN THE CANNABIS MARKET
Altria, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is in the early stages of bargaining for the acquisition of a Canadian cannabis producer. According to CNBC, the giant would seek to diversify its activities. (See article)
CONGO: TOBACCO DOES NOT HAVE ANY MEDICINAL VIRTUE
Dr. Michel Mpiana, a doctor at the "Bethel Center" hospital in Ngiri Ngiri commune in Kinshasa, said during an interview Saturday with the ACP that tobacco is an attractive and toxic plant that has no virtue According to this doctor, tobacco has become a drug causing several diseases and death. It would be even more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin or cocaine. (See article)
