{"id":17296,"date":"2024-06-24T19:08:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/europe-70-years-behind-smoke-free-target-survey-sparks-vaping-controversy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:07:58","slug":"europe-70-years-behind-smoke-free-target-survey-sparks-vaping-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/post\/europe-70-years-behind-smoke-free-target-survey-sparks-vaping-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe 70 Years Behind Smoke-Free Target: Survey Sparks Vaping Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">Europe is on course to miss its target of being smoke free by 70 years, according to the latest survey on tobacco use in Europe by the European Commission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/eurobarometer\/surveys\/detail\/2995\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> show that at the current rate of decline, the EU will only reach its target of a smoking rate of 5% by 2100. The current goal is 5% prevalence by 2030.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">The survey did however find that vaping products and heated tobacco products were significantly more effective for people wanting to stop smoking that nicotine replacement therapies: over half of smokers and former smokers who vaped had either quit or cut down their tobacco intake.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">The survey was released two days after a debate in the European Council &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clearingtheair.eu\/en\/post\/eu-urged-to-ban-flavoured-nicotine-products-by-member-states\">first covered<\/a> by Clearing the Air &#8211; saw a number of Member States call for a tougher approach to vaping, including product and flavour bans.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Just over half of the EU population would support a flavour ban, according to the survey. The Commission has not said what proportion of vapers or smokers would support a ban.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Interestingly, the Commission chose to hold back its own data until after this debate had taken place; and has not publicised the study on its website or social media channels.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">The survey found that while only 3% of Europeans vape and 4% have tried pouches, 24% continue to smoke.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Michael Landl, of the World Vapers Alliance, sees the data as evidence of a European policy failure.<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"\"><p><em id=\"\">&#8222;By stubbornly targeting harm reduction products instead of focusing on the real issue, the EU is not just failing but actively sabotaging public health efforts,&#8220;he said. &#8222;This disastrous approach must end now. Instead of fighting products such as vaping or nicotine pouches, they must become a cornerstone of future public health strategies. Otherwise, the fight against smoking will be lost.&#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe is on course to miss its target of being smoke free by 70 years, according to the latest survey on tobacco use in Europe by the European Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":13747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[186],"slider":[],"class_list":["post-17296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nicotine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19073,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions\/19073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17296"},{"taxonomy":"slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/slider?post=17296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}