IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The National Committee Against Smoking is currently carrying out actions that are causing confusion among consumers and vaping professionals.
6-methyl-nicotine
Around World No Tobacco Day, the CNCT orchestrated a media campaign on vaping , denouncing the use of 6-methyl-nicotine. It was widely reported. While the use of this banned molecule remains anecdotal—see our press release below—media headlines quickly sowed confusion among the public.
Alarmist messages, with no distinction between regulated and fraudulent products, have spread. For example, published on BFMTV on May 27, 2025: "The guinea pig is man": what is metatin, the nicotine derivative found in e-cigarettes?
An anxious climate has thus once again settled over vaping as a whole. Many specialist shops have reported to FIVAPE the concerns of their customers who are beginning to suspect their usual products.
For this reason, FIVAPE has produced the poster below to help reassure customers in stores.
Sales to minors
The CNCT has produced, with public support from the Addictions Fund, a document on the ban on the sale of vaping products to minors.
On several occasions since February, the CNCT has approached FIVAPE, asking it to take responsibility for distributing this document to its members. FIVAPE refused for several reasons:
- FIVAPE was not consulted to contribute to the development of the document;
- the message is addressed without distinction to tobacconists and independent professionals;
it contains errors, in particular the date of the ban on sales to minors which is 2016 and not 2014; Erratum1- Claims about the risks of vaping and the gateway effect are not acceptable in light of the evidence from science and health agencies.
In recent days, the CNCT has taken the initiative to send its document directly to vaping industry stakeholders. Contrary to what it implies, the FIVAPE has never questioned the ban on sales to minors, reiterated in the technical sheet below, which all vaping professionals are required to comply with. Feel free to print it: displaying the legal warning in stores is mandatory.
Download the technical sheet .pdf
Fifteen million French people still smoke. They are customers of the tobacco industry, whose worst enemy is vaping.
FIVAPE emphasizes that vaping professionals are at the forefront of the fight against smoking. They are the leading players in smoking cessation efforts in France. Their sector, independent of the tobacco industry, is responsible and respectable in light of the millions of people it has already helped quit smoking.
Obstructing our work is contrary to the general interest.
The Board of Directors
FIVAPE
- Erratum on 17/6/25: The "Hamon" Consumer Law was published in the Journal officiel on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. It frames the ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors. It will be applied from June 2014. ︎