The World Vapers’ Alliance has slammed the Spanish Government’s new Anti-Tobacco Bill which equates all alternative nicotine products with traditional cigarettes. While flavour bans and the de facto ban on nicotine pouches were already presented earlier this year in a separate royal decree, this bill extends smoking bans to reduced-risk products, erasing crucial distinctions with combustible cigarettes.
The World Vapers’ Alliance told Planet of the Vapes that the bill expands smoke-free areas to bar and restaurant terraces, beaches, stadiums, universities, bus stops, some private vehicles and others, and explicitly includes vaping, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches under the same restrictions despite clear evidence that they carry significantly lower risks for both users and by-standers.
The organisation called the Bill “shocking” and says it follows a European Commission recommendation to extend smoke-free areas to vaping — “a proposal that was rejected by the European Parliament last year”.
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