{"id":1385,"date":"2022-05-18T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2022-07-21T08:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:25:46","slug":"the-eu-commissions-misguided-attacks-on-vaping-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/en_gb\/the-eu-commissions-misguided-attacks-on-vaping-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU Commissions&#8217; misguided attacks on vaping continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>18.05.2022 &#8211; Brussels<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The EU Commission published yet another statement that spreads misinformation and false myths about vaping last week. The EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, questioned the effectiveness of vaping as a smoking cessation aid, attacked nicotine and claimed vaping would be a gateway to smoking.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Landl, Director of the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance, commented:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is shocking that the EU Commission still peddles these worn-out and debunked theories. The Commission systematically ignores the wealth of scientific evidence pointing to the benefits of vaping, not to mention the first-hand experience of millions of vapers. Vaping is <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-than-tobacco-estimates-landmark-review\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">95% less harmful<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than smoking and a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/media\/news\/2019\/smd\/e-cigarettes-more-effective-than-nicotine-replacement-therapies-finds-major-uk-clinical-trial.html\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more effective method to quit smoking<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than traditional therapies such as gum and patches. The Commission&#8217;s approach to vaping will do nothing but cost lives.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/E-9-2022-001031-ASW_EN.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a written response to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/E-9-2022-001031_EN.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">question<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asked by MEP Sara Skyttedal regarding the future treatment of vaping and snus, and how the Commission plans to deal with them in light of Europe\u2019s Beating Cancer Plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EU Commission keeps refusing to compare vaping to smoking. If they did so, it would become clear that the current approach is wrong. Professor Jacob George (University of Dundee) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0735109719381938\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">found<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that smokers who switch to vaping \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">demonstrate significant improvement in vascular health<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d. Instead of recommending smokers to switch to vaping or other less harmful alternatives, Commissioner Kyriakides refuses to listen to science, experts, and consumers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe statement shows that the EU Commission intends to further crackdown on vaping. This is not a good sign regarding the upcoming Tobacco Products Directive update. This strengthens our conviction that consumers need to raise their voices. We need to convince our representatives in the European Parliament to push back on the Commission&#8217;s hostility towards harm reduction,\u201d added Michael Landl.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The upcoming update of the EU&#8217;s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) will determine the future of vaping, possibly threatening the most successful smoking cessation aid and public health. Currently, the EU is discussing the next TPD update and how to include new nicotine alternatives. Unfortunately, the EU aims to continue its hostile and anti-scientific attack on vaping and other harm reducing products. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18.05.2022 &#8211; Brussels. The EU Commission published yet another statement that spreads misinformation and false myths about vaping last week. The EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, questioned the effectiveness of vaping as a smoking cessation aid, attacked nicotine and claimed vaping would be a gateway to smoking.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Landl, Director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The EU Commissions&#039; misguided attacks on vaping continue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The EU Commission published yet another statement that spreads misinformation and false myths about vaping last week.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/en_gb\/the-eu-commissions-misguided-attacks-on-vaping-continue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The EU Commissions&#039; 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