{"id":5864,"date":"2024-10-30T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2024-11-01T08:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:37:22","slug":"france-to-ban-nicotine-pouches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/en_gb\/france-to-ban-nicotine-pouches\/","title":{"rendered":"France to Ban Nicotine Pouches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French government plans to ban nicotine pouches, citing concerns about underage use.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/societe\/sante\/cest-de-notre-devoir-de-les-interdire-les-pouches-un-succes-qui-inquiete-la-ministre-de-la-sante-29-10-2024-DLXBSNEURRGUXPVUNKMF3YVLAE.php\"><em>Le Parisien<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published on Oct. 30, Health Minister Genevieve Darrieussecq said that pouches \u201care dangerous products because they contain high doses of nicotine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe marketing of these products is directly targeted at young people, and I hope that we can protect our young people,\u201d Darrieussecq was quoted as saying. She added that the ban will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Nicotine companies have been marketing \u201cmodern oral\u201d products as safer alternatives to smoking cigarettes. But according to Darrieussecq, they can be just as dangerous, \u201cespecially when they are used not by former smokers but by young people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She argued that the pouches risk inducing nicotine addiction and serve as an entry into smoking.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full text <a href=\"https:\/\/tobaccoreporter.com\/2024\/10\/30\/france-to-ban-nicotine-pouches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French government plans to ban nicotine pouches, citing concerns about underage use. In an interview with\u00a0Le Parisien\u00a0published on Oct. 30, Health Minister Genevieve Darrieussecq said that pouches \u201care dangerous products because they contain high doses of nicotine.\u201d \u201cThe marketing of these products is directly targeted at young people, and I hope that we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wva-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>France to Ban Nicotine Pouches - World Vapers&#039; Alliance<\/title>\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\/france-to-ban-nicotine-pouches\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"France to Ban Nicotine Pouches - World Vapers&#039; Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The French government plans to ban nicotine pouches, citing concerns about underage use. 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