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Today, the European Commission launched its landmark \u2018Beating Cancer Plan\u2019<\/a> but the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance, a group representing thousands of vapers worldwide, is concerned about the bias the report demonstrates against vaping.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the launch of the plan, Michael Landl, Director of the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s plan shows that the European Commission is allowing ideology to get in the way of science. The aim of Europe\u2019s Beating Cancer Plan is to reduce the cancer burden for patients, their families and health systems, yet it ignores the wealth of evidence showing that vaping represents only less than half of one percent\u00a0 of the cancer risk that smoking does.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If ignoring the evidence supporting vaping as a less harmful alternative to vaping isn\u2019t bad enough, the plan equates vaping to smoking in parts of the plan. In reaction to this false equivalence Landl said:<\/p>\n

\u201cSmoking and vaping are not the same and the Commission knows this. However, due to an ideological approach, they are neglecting their duty to pursue policies in the best interest of all EU citizens. Treating the two as the same is a mistake that could prevent thousands of smokers from quitting smoking. After all, we know that vaping is twice as effective as other methods to stop smoking\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In a move against vaping, Europe\u2019s Beating Cancer Plan sets out steps to systematically curb vaping using the same techniques used to curb tobacco use. Such examples include expanding taxation to novel tobacco products, vaping bans indoors and flavour bans.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the anti-vaping proposals, Landl stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf vaping is subject to the same rules as cigarettes – higher taxes, bans in certain places etc – then those that gave up smoking thanks to vaping will see smoking become, relatively speaking, more appealing. That\u2019s a disaster and flies in the face of what the EU is hoping to achieve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf the EU is concerned about young people taking up vaping, then let\u2019s enforce age restrictions but making vaping more expensive and less enjoyable is a sure-fire way to drive current vapers straight back to the old habit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cReturning back to smoking is also a key concern amongst our members which have been mobilised ahead of this plan with 7540 petition signatures in support of vaping and 229 emails to MEPs. We also conducted a survey which concluded that 94% of our members feel that vaping helped them reduce or completely quit smoking. Vapers\u2019 cannot be ignored as they will be the first ones to suffer at the hands of this plan.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Following the publication of Europe\u2019s Beating Cancer Plan, EU Health Commissioner Kyriakides\u2019s flagship initiative will be subject to review and input by the European Parliament. It is here where Landl will hope that MEPs point out the mistakes made by the Commission and they rectify them in their own plan which will be published later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Parliament is yet to publish their version of the plan and we call on all MEPs to take heed of the failures in the Commission\u2019s plan. We hope that they will treat vaping correctly and embrace it as the cessation tool that it is. We do not need another healthcare catastrophe like the ones we have seen in recent weeks.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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