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EU’s Smoke-Free Goal Fails by 60 Years: Urgent Reassessment Needed

Brussels, 24.06.2024 – The latest Eurobarometer 2024 reveals a startling failure in the EU’s approach to achieving its smoke-free target of a 5% smoking rate. At the current trend, the smoking rate will only …
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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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EU Health Ministers’ Flavour Ban Support Threatens Public Health

Brussels, 21.06.2024 – Today, at EPSCO, some EU Health Ministers made alarming statements in support of a flavour ban on safer nicotine products such as vaping and nicotine pouches. The potential policy would undermine …
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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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54,000 Voices Ignored: EU Health Ministers’ Flavour Ban Push Threaten …

Brussels, 19.06.2024 – Vapers across Europe have raiseed the alarm before the EPSCO Council meeting on Thursday, where Ministers will make aggressive push to ban flavours in safer nicotine products. This move bypasses democratic …
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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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Education, Not Plain Packaging, Key to Protecting Youth from Vaping

10 June 2024, The Hague – The World Vapers’ Alliance expresses grave concerns over the Dutch cabinet’s recent decision to apply plain packaging requirements to vaping products. The move, proposed by State Secretary Van …
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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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World No Tobacco Day: WVA Warns of the “Misperception Epidemic”

As World No Tobacco Day (31 May) approaches, the World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) is raising the alarm about the rampant ‘Misperception Epidemic’ surrounding tobacco harm reduction. Recent research by Ipsos for the think tank …
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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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EU Health Ministers Urged to Champion Tobacco Harm Reduction

Brussels, BE, 23 April 2024 – The World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) calls for immediate action from EU health ministers to adopt science-based tobacco harm reduction strategies amidst delays in tobacco legislation. The call comes …
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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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Outdoor Overregulation: City’s New 5-Meter Vaping Rule Lights Up Cont …

Turin, 17.4.2024 – Turin’s city council has passed a new amendment to the urban police regulation, introducing significant restrictions on smoking and vaping. The amendment prohibits smoking or vaping near other people outdoors without …
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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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UK on the verge of the next public health disaster: MPs Vote in Support of …

London, UK – Yesterday, MPs voted in favour of the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which will prohibit the sale of tobacco to anyone aged 15 and under. WVA warns 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.
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WVA Challenges France’s Disposable Vape Ban: A Call for Rational Harm …

Paris, 25 March 2024 — In France, a parliamentary committee approved a ban on disposable vapes. The World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) urges policymakers to reconsider the far-reaching consequences of this move on public health …
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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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Rishi Sunak’s Pivot: From Harm Reduction Champion to Leggard

London, UK — The World Vapers Alliance (WVA) expresses serious concerns about the introduction of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill today. The UK government is planning to ban smoking for future generations and also …
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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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