{"id":30313,"date":"2025-11-05T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/?p=30313"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:52:39","slug":"nicorette-maker-wants-more-tax-on-vapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/en\/post\/nicorette-maker-wants-more-tax-on-vapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicorette maker wants more tax on vapes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicorette maker Kenvue\u2019s Vice President Hannah French has called for a \u201ctobacco and nicotine free generation\u201d in a speech to EU policy makers at the Parliament Magazine\u2019s Healthcare summit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a soft \u201csponsored interview\u201d riddled with misleading statements, French told attendees that she welcomed the Commission\u2019s statements on increasing tax on vaping products: possibly referring to disinformation spread by Health Commissioner Oliver Varheyli <\/a>that new nicotine products are just as risky as smoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Kenvue was spun out of Johnson and Johnson, J&J led the charge for vapes to be regulated as medicines \u2013 effectively a ban \u2013 EU wide. The man leading the charge then, as now, was an executive at Japan Tobacco International <\/a>for four and a half years before joining Kenvue and the fight against safer nicotine products. It seems that the company – that is in the process of being acquired by Kimberly Clark – will try the same again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In closing, French told an anecdote about a grandmother who was able to hold her granddaughter now she\u2019d stopped smoking, whom she\u2019d met in a focus group \u201cthe other day\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently this grandmother tried to quit with \u201calternative products\u201d but ended up \u201cdual using\u201d. Kenvue and French did this sponsored spot at the Health conference last year and we covered it then<\/a>. Looking back on our notes, we\u2019re pretty sure French told the same story last year.<\/p>\n

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