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The WHO’s anti-vaping stance is undermining Europe’s fight against smok …

As World No Tobacco Day approaches, the World Health Organization (WHO) is once again doubling down on its campaign against vaping and other harm reduction tools. This is not just a missed opportunity—it is a dangerous …
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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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Study finds vaping, nicotine pouches most effective quit smoking tools

Electronic cigarettes and tobacco‑free nicotine pouches are now the world’s strongest weapons against smoking, according to a new World Vapers Alliance (WVA) policy paper that calls on the World Health Organization (WHO) to rethink …
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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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Greece’s Flavour Ban: From Progress to Prohibition

reece is once again at a crossroads in its approach to tobacco control. Despite recent progress, the government is now considering a ban on vaping flavours – a move that threatens to undermine the country’s hard-won …
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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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Consumer Advocates Warn: Flavour Ban Threatens Public Health Progress

Athens, 16.4.2025. Consumer organisations and vaping advocates from Greece and across Europe, including the Greek Vapers’ Alliance and the World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA), are sounding the alarm over the Ministry of Health’s proposed ban on all …
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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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Greece’s Proposed Vape Flavor Ban Threatens Public Health Progress

Consumer advocates and vaping organizations from Greece and across Europe are raising concerns over the Greek Ministry of Health’s proposed ban on all vape flavors except tobacco and menthol. The Greek Vapers’ Alliance and …
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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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Countries Challenge EU Strategy

Italy, Greece and Romania are challenging the EU’s current approach to legislation by calling for an evidence-based approach, according to the World Vapers’ Alliance. The organisation says Politico is reporting their stand against 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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Ue, Italia frena su revisione delle direttive su tabacco e sigarette elettr …

L’Italia sarebbe la capofila di un gruppo di Paesi che si oppone alla richiesta di accelerare la revisione della legislazione europea sul tabacco. Qualche settimana fa i Paesi Bassi e altri undici Stati membri, …
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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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Dutch official compares vaping to heroin and crack use

State Secretary Vincent Karremans told the Dutch House of Representatives that he wants to prevent people from starting to vape and encourage anyone already vaping to stop. In his publicly-available statement, he claimed nicotine …
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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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Pressure mounts on the European Commission to tackle overdue tobacco regula …

In the absence of a firm plan to overhaul tobacco regulations this year, the European Commission is coming under pressure to revise its outdated Tobacco Excise Directive (TED). Individual member states and lobby groups …
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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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Bulgaria’s Black Market Gift

The World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) has strongly condemned the Bulgarian Parliament’s “reckless” decision to ban all vaping products. The organisation calls it a “misguided policy”, sparked by a tragic incident involving a black-market THC vape, and …
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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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