Vap'News offers you your flash news around the e-cigarette for Wednesday 2 January 2019 day. (Update the news at 10h34.)
FRANCE: TO STOP VAPING AS HARD AS TO STOP SMOKING?
The e-cigarette (better name than electronic cigarette) removes the exposure to hazardous substances produced by heating or burning tobacco because it simply does not contain tobacco. Tars, simplifying, are at the origin of many cancers, the best known, that of the lung. Carbon monoxide (CO) is a gas that causes cardiovascular disease (the best known is myocardial infarction). (See article)
UNITED STATES: NEW YEAR AND NEW LAW ON VAPE IN MASSACHUSETTS
The new year brings its share of novelty! In the United States, new laws will come into force in the state of Massachusetts. Indeed, it will now be prohibited to sell tobacco and vaping products to people under the age of 21. (See article)
SCOTLAND: INVESTMENT OF £ 150 TO PROVIDE E-CIGARETTE KITS TO INMATES
Over £ 100 has been spent buying e-cigarettes for inmates in Scottish prisons. This expenditure follows the smoking ban in prisons which came into effect at the end of November. The Scottish Prisoner Service distributed around 000 vaping kits. (See article)
NEW ZEALAND: EMERGENCY TO SPOKE FOR WAHINE MAORI
In New Zealand, Hāpai Te Hauora (Maori public health service) encourages Wāhine Māori and especially pregnant women to quit smoking and switch to vaping ... (See article)
FRANCE: ENTRY INTO FORCE OF NEW TOBACCO AWARDS
The price of certain packs of cigarettes increases by 20 to 30 cents on January 1. The average price remains stable at 7,90 euros for 20 cigarettes. The government has planned a series of successive increases to reach, by November 2020, a price of 10 euros per pack of 20 cigarettes. (See article)
