FIVAPE's media watch on vaping in France and around the world: August 2025
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08/31/25 | OUEST FRANCE
In Singapore, the sale and even use of vaping have been banned since 2018, but consumption hasn't dropped, especially among young people. Black market, no more controls, traffickers add narcotics. The country is announcing new measures from September1: increased fines, caning, job loss for civil servants, prison... In Singapore, smoking is banned in all public spaces, but the sale and use of cigarettes are not prohibited.
Sticks, fines, prison... This country is one of the first to ban vaping
31/08/25 | RADIO 1
The Tahitian Assembly has just voted to ban vaping completely. The import and sale of vape products will be totally banned from July 2027, to allow retailers to clear their stocks. Cigarettes will remain on sale. Tahiti has some of the highest smoking rates in the Pacific region, with over 40% of smokers, 32% daily. Moral panic among young people is once again the pretext for banning vaping, which is also accused of being used to consume illegal drugs.
The Assembly goes further than the government and bans "vape".
29/08/25 | CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
Official U.S. data: vaping is turning young people away from smoking, and they're only experimenting, not persisting. Nicotine consumption (vape or tobacco) is also plummeting.
28/08/25 | VAPING POST
He thought he had cancer, because of vape, at 23. Terrifying.
Mass murder in Minneapolis, the fault of vape?
26/08/25 | VAPING POST
Smoking kills. Consuming nicotine without smoking is a solution to stop smoking, nicotine substitutes are effective, and vape even more so (two to three times more effective). Fighting nicotine and confusing it with the harmful effects of smoking does not help the fight against smoking, and serves the interests of the tobacco industry, the only one that kills with its products. 75,000 deaths a year in France.
The benefits of nicotine consumption: myth or reality?
26/08/25 | SCIENCE MEDIA CENTER
Several French media[Le Point Science et Vie Euronews Parents] have reported the alarmist conclusions of an "umbrella" study by the University of York published at the beginning of the summer in the journal Tobacco Control. Not only would vaping have harmful effects on health and be a gateway to smoking (gateway effect), but it would also lead young people to cannabis and alcohol! Yet this study was quickly and harshly criticized by many experts as soon as it was published.
24/08/25 | 24 MATINS
Puffs seem no less available than before the ban. While specialist shops are complying with the law, this is not the case in grocery stores, and the black market is developing without any controls, increasing the risk of non-compliant and adulterated products, and exposing young people to traffickers. FIVAPE once again deplores the lack of consultation with professionals and the lack of preparation, which has led to a situation that runs counter to the objectives of a law designed to protect young people.
Despite their ban, puffs continue to seduce in France: explanations for their enduring success
09/08/25 | LE TEMPS
Pr. Jacques Cornuz, member of the Société Francophone de Tabacologie (SFT), former director of Unisanté, the University Center for General Medicine and Public Health in Lausanne. Highly involved in the fight against smoking in Switzerland, he was nicknamed "the ayatollah of smoking" by his colleagues at the time. He unequivocally defends vapotage: "Vapotage may not be without risk, but, once again, anything is better than continuing to expose oneself to tobacco. This principle of prevention among adult smokers must be distinguished from the precautionary principle among young people..."
13/08/25 | VAPING POST
Science confirms it. Considerable in all cases, there is a much better reduction in risk with vape than with heated tobacco. As the Pasteur Institute showed back in 2020. A French study which was unfortunately not taken into account in the opinion of the Haut Conseil de la Santé Publique in 2022.
Toxicity of vaping and heated tobacco: what do independent studies say?
12/08/25 | VAPING POST
The ban on vaping in India (2019, hailed by the WHO) is a total failure: people go back to smoking or resort to the black market (no more controls). It's worth remembering that - real - cigarettes are still authorized, and that they can contain flavors, notably vanilla.
India's Vape Ban: How is it really going?
07/08/25 | LE FIGARO
Banned but not disappeared, puffs can now be found on the black market, with no control over quality or composition. Young people are therefore left to the mercy of traffickers, who could take advantage of the windfall to offer them other products containing drugs (PTC, Budha Blu...). As a subscriber to this article, let us note the conclusion of Dr Philippe Arvers, who is circumspect: "To forbid something to a young person is just to give him the desire to circumvent the prohibition.
"Very quickly, I got hooked": banned from sale, "puff" is still a hit with young people
03/07/25 | CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
The rise of vaping, which has already helped millions of smokers, has created a new nicotine epidemic? FALSE. In the United States, nicotine consumption among young people is at its lowest level in 50 years!
03/07/25 | VAPING POST
Taxing vaping does not seem to meet with unanimous approval in Europe. France must also commit to defending the No. 1 smoking cessation aid.
Taxation of vaping: Portugal says no to Brussels
01/08/25 | VAPING POST
A fine retrospective of a very busy start to the year for vape. Between the Finance Bill, where tax proposals could resurface, and ministerial announcements on flavors, nicotine and plain packaging, the end of the year is going to be a busy one...
01/08/25 | SCIENCE MEDIA CENTER
Three expert reactions to a study that attempts to demonstrate a gateway effect from vape to tobacco among young people.