{"id":1560,"date":"2022-06-29T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2022-07-21T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:25:12","slug":"the-eu-commissions-misguided-attacks-on-harm-reduction-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/en_gb\/the-eu-commissions-misguided-attacks-on-harm-reduction-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU Commissions&#8217; misguided attacks on harm reduction continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>29.06.2022 &#8211; Brussels<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Today, the EU Commission announced a plan to ban the sale of all flavoured heated tobacco products. The EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, also called for \u201cstricter enforcement\u201d for new products entering the market.<\/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 fights tobacco harm reduction. To achieve its own 5% tobacco use target, we need as many options as possible. Vaping, nicotine pouches and heat-not-burn products all help people to quit smoking and are less harmful. The Commission systematically ignores the wealth of scientific evidence pointing to the benefits, not to mention the first-hand experience of millions of vapers. The Commission&#8217;s negative approach to harm reduction will do nothing but boost the black market and push people back to smoking.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-want-ban-heated-tobacco-product\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politico<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the main reason for the push to ban flavored heated tobacco products are the increased sales and to protect the youth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/health\/tobacco\/overview_en#:~:text=Tobacco%20consumption%20is%20the%20single,nearly%20700%2C000%20deaths%20every%20year.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EU Commission<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 700,000 people die yearly from smoking related illnesses they are concerned about the rise in sales of less harmful alternatives. The EU\u2019s own <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/eurobarometer\/surveys\/detail\/2240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eurobarometer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> research says that: \u201cnearly eight in ten (79%) among heated tobacco product users and a quarter of those who have tried heated tobacco products find them appealing, compared to only one in twenty among those who have never tried them.\u201d Indicating that those products are clearly relevant for current smokers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInstead of recommending smokers to switch to less harmful alternatives, Commissioner Kyriakides refuses to listen to science, experts, and consumers. This plan shows that the EU Commission intends to further crack down on harm reduction while accepting all the negative consequences\u201d, added Landl.<\/span><\/i><\/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 aids 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29.06.2022 &#8211; Brussels. Today, the EU Commission announced a plan to ban the sale of all flavoured heated tobacco products. The EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, also called for \u201cstricter enforcement\u201d for new products entering the market. Michael Landl, Director of the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance, commented:\u00a0 \u201cIt is shocking that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","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 v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The EU Commissions&#039; misguided attacks on harm reduction continue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today, the EU Commission announced a plan to ban the sale of all flavoured heated tobacco products.\" \/>\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-harm-reduction-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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