Vap'News offers you your flash news around the e-cigarette for the 15 weekend and 16 June 2019. (Update the news at 09h36)
SWITZERLAND: A CONTROVERSIAL PROMOTION OF IQOS BY PHILIP MORRIS!
Launched in Switzerland in 2015, the cigarette substitute IQOS (for I Quit Ordinary Smoking, “I quit ordinary cigarettes”) represents 2,5% of market share, or some 50 converted in November 000. “That meets expectations, explains Philip Morris Switzerland CEO Dominique Leroux. (See article)
UNITED STATES: ADVERTISING AND CARTOONS CAN PUT YOUNG PEOPLE TO VAPOTAGE!
Like the famous “Joe Camel” cigarette commercials in the 1980s and 1990s, the use of cartoon characters in e-cigarette and e-liquid advertisements could attract young people to vaping, according to a news report. USC study. (See article)
MALAYSIA: THE COUNTRY STRENGTHENS ITS CONTROL OVER THE SALE OF E-CIGARETTE!
The government does not intend to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and vaping, but will strengthen controls to reduce the health risks that may arise from the use of these devices, a said Dr Lee Boon Chye, Deputy Minister of Health. (See article)
