Michael Landl

BRUSSELS, 27 February 2026 – In an open letter addressed to President Ursula von der Leyen, 23 of Europe’s leading scientific experts have condemned the European Commission for spreading “damaging misinformation” regarding the safety …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
BRUXELLES, le 26 février 2026 – Le Conseil des ministres belge se réunira demain, 27 février, pour discuter d’une interdiction quasi totale des arômes pour les cigarettes électroniques. La proposition, introduite par le Ministre …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Deutschland steht vor einem gesundheitspolitischen Desaster. Während fast jeder dritte Erwachsene im Land raucht – eine Schockquote von fast 30 Prozent, die seit Jahren kaum sinkt – plant Landwirtschaftsminister Alois Rainer (CSU) den Frontalangriff …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
WIEN / BRÜSSEL, 20. Februar 2026 – Kaum hat Österreich seine eigene neue Steuer auf E-Zigaretten, Nikotinbeutel und Zigaretten beschlossen, holt Brüssel zum Gegenschlag aus. Ein neues Geheim-Papier aus dem EU-Rat enthüllt: Die EU …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM, 20 February 2026 – The World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) has joined a pan-European coalition of consumer groups in an open letter calling on the Swedish government to veto the latest draft of the …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
In the final hours of the European Economic and Social Committee’s (EESC)* session on the Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), a manoeuvre emerged that has left observers stunned. Andris Gobiņš, a Latvian member of the …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
CANBERRA, 13 February 2026– The World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) has officially submitted its evidence to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, warning that Australia’s restrictive vaping laws are the primary driver of …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
The European Commission constantly prides itself on the promise to legislate based on evidence and open public consultation. Yet, as we approach the critical update of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), that promise is …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
Das Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR) hat eine neue Stellungnahme (003/2026) zu Kühlstoffen in E-Zigaretten veröffentlicht. Parallel dazu wird in Berlin bereits konkret ein Verbot von Menthol und 13 weiteren Inhalts- und Kühlstoffen vorbereitet, das …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
The latest comments from Jindřich Vobořil, a respected public health and drug policy expert with decades of international experience, describe what many of us have long feared about the direction of the WHO’s tobacco …

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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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