Les taux de tabagisme ont stagné dans les pays de l'Union européenne où les alternatives moins nocives à la nicotine ne sont pas facilement disponibles, révèle de nouvelles données.
Friday, 21st June, Luxembourg. As previously reported by Clearing the Air, a meeting of the Council of the European Union was held today where a ban on flavoured nicotine products was discussed, and supported by a number of key EU Member States.
ETHRA, which represents nicotine consumer organisations in Europe, has written to health ministers across Europe urging them to reject a flavour ban at tomorrow's European Council meeting.
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The European Council - the most powerful legislative body in the European Union - will debate proposals for an EU-wide flavour ban for all nicotine products in a session on 21st June.
That headline isn’t a rhetorical question: it was what we were genuinely thinking after we watched a YouTube replay of a conference call organised by the European Cancer League.
Europeans will go to the polls this week to elect members of the European Parliament. From 6 to 9 June, eligible voters in 27 EU Member States will cast their ballots, determining who represents them in the world’s only transnational Parliament.
Member countries of the European Union (EU) have been subject to rules on vaping since May 2016, but member countries are free to set their own rules on their sale and use. In the last few years, new regulations on vapes in individual countries have been moving at pace.
Ireland aims to become the first country in the European Union to ban smoking among under-21s.
Changes to the make-up of the European Parliament may favour a more lenient approach to vaping as a key tool to help smokers quit, an MEP has said.
Almost 20,000 people have signed an online petition against a crackdown on vapes in Europe that would put “millions of lives” at risk.
Taking place across four days, 27 countries and in 24 different languages, they are the largest multinational elections in the world. The European elections happen every five years.
