{"id":6527,"date":"2025-10-13T07:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:20:15","slug":"health-commissioner-pushes-unfair-vape-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/da\/health-commissioner-pushes-unfair-vape-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundhedskommiss\u00e6r frems\u00e6tter urimelig vape-skat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro-text\">\n<p>The World Vapers\u2019 Alliance has strongly condemned statements made by the European Health Commissioner, Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi, regarding plans to equate vaping with smoking and equalise the taxes on vaping products with cigarettes. The World Vapers\u2019 Alliance says that the Commissioner\u2019s claims reveal a profound misunderstanding of tobacco harm reduction and threaten one of Europe\u2019s most effective tools for saving lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Austria, speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehfg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the European Health Forum Gastein<\/a>, European Health Commissioner Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi stated: \u201c<i>We will raise the excess duties on these new products to the exact same level as it is for classic tobacco products and we will need to continue in that direction.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued by warning of unstated and unproven mythical dangers from vaping, &#8220;<i>For whatever reason, in the public [vaping] is not presented as a danger \u2014 yet<\/i>. <i>The health impact is already there<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Relying on the testimony of people who have been campaigning against vaping, Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi added: \u201c<i>Of course, it\u2019s very important to have confirmation from the lung experts that we\u2019re doing the right thing<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-health-commissioner-oliver-varhelyi-vows-hike-vape-taxes-match-cigarettes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> reports that the new tax levels will range from an additional 20 to 40% on vape products.<\/p>\n<p>The World Vapers\u2019 Alliance said that Commissioner V\u00e1rhelyi justified the approach due to rising youth vaping rates.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full text <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetofthevapes.co.uk\/news\/vaping-news\/2025-10-08_health-commissioner-pushes-unfair-vape-tax.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Vapers\u2019 Alliance has strongly condemned statements made by the European Health Commissioner, Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi, regarding plans to equate vaping with smoking and equalise the taxes on vaping products with cigarettes. The World Vapers\u2019 Alliance says that the Commissioner\u2019s claims reveal a profound misunderstanding of tobacco harm reduction and threaten one of Europe\u2019s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wva-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Health Commissioner Pushes Unfair Vape Tax - World Vapers&#039; Alliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/da\/health-commissioner-pushes-unfair-vape-tax\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"da_DK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Health Commissioner Pushes Unfair Vape Tax - World Vapers&#039; Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The World Vapers\u2019 Alliance has strongly condemned statements made by the European Health Commissioner, Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi, regarding plans to equate vaping with smoking and equalise the taxes on vaping products with cigarettes. 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