{"id":3510,"date":"2023-01-18T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T13:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2023-01-18T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T13:38:31","slug":"italy-takes-a-wrong-turn-by-equating-vaping-with-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/eu\/italy-takes-a-wrong-turn-by-equating-vaping-with-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy takes a wrong turn by equating vaping with smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>18.01.2023 Rome, Italy \u2014<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Italian Health Minister Orazio Schillaci <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/politics\/news\/italy-to-ban-vaping-indoors\/%5C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> new measures against traditional cigarettes and novel tobacco and nicotine products to achieve the European Cancer Plan\u2019s goals. The new measures, announced yesterday in a hearing before the Chamber\u2019s Social Affairs Commission, include a ban on indoor vaping, smoking in open-air places, and further plans to extend advertising ban on nicotine products.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Land, director of the World Vapers\u2019 Alliance (WVA), said that the Health Minister\u2019s measures contradict scientific evidence of the positive impact of vaping on fighting tobacco:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere is <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openscienceonline.com\/journal\/archive2?journalId=718&amp;paperId=4979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no evidence<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that second-hand vaping is harmful. But there is scientific proof that vaping is at least 95 per cent less harmful than smoking and is the best alternative to tobacco smoking. Vaping should be excluded from the planned smoking bans. Yet again, Italy is making another grave mistake in its efforts to fight cancer \u2013 vaping is not an enemy, it does not contain tobacco and should be embraced as a tool to achieve a \u201ctobacco-free generation\u201d.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last October, World Vapers\u2019 Alliance presented a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/worldvapersalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/7-Step-Plan-to-Reduce-Smoking-Death-for-the-New-Italian-Government-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7-step plan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for reducing smoking-induced death for the new Italian government in Rome. The plan included the recommendation to at least allow vaping in areas where smoking is still allowed at the moment. Vaping should be exempted from further extensions of non-smoking areas to incentivise smokers to switch to safer alternatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The challenge we are facing in Italy is the widespread misinformation that vaping and passive smoking are the same thing, which is not true. Therefore, vaping should not be treated equally. All the data available so far indicate that consumers see access to reduced-risk products as an essential element in supporting their path to a less risky alternative to cigarette smoking,&#8217; said Carmine Canino, president of the National Association for United Vapers and WVA Advisory Board member.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This is not the right approach because you cannot equate vaping with traditional tobacco. Vaping is a harm reduction tool for people who smoke traditional cigarettes. We need to open a technical round table to discuss with those who are familiar with a market that is expanding worldwide. All of us at ANPVU are trying to promote correct information on e-cigarettes and we hope to finally see the Italian Ministry of Health approve, support and incentivise the use of harm reduction tools, such as vaping,&#8221; added Carmine Canino.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cItaly has the potential to be a world leading country in fighting smoking. Instead, further restrictions on tobacco harm reduction tools risk pushing more people back to smoking. The Italian government should reevaluate its approach towards vaping and finally listen to science and consumers,\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">added Landl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18.01.2023 Rome, Italy \u2014 Italian Health Minister Orazio Schillaci announced new measures against traditional cigarettes and novel tobacco and nicotine products to achieve the European Cancer Plan\u2019s goals. 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