FIVAPE's media watch on vaping in France and around the world: April 2025
= FIVAPE questioned or quoted.
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04/30/25 | EL PLURAL
Swedish model. Don't confuse smoking with nicotine. New scientific evidence, particularly on the cardiovascular effects...
La evidencia científica que podría transformar las políticas contra el tabaquismo en Europa
04/26/25 | LA CHAINE DE LA VAPE
Nathalie Muteau, Agnès Hekpazo and Jean Moiroud on La Chaine de la Vape at Vapexpo. 10 min. to understand the role and functioning of FIVAPE, transparency and commitment! Join us now.
04/26/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent. Interview with Alexandre Tavernier and Ludovic Oury, founders of Vape 47, e-liquids with highly original and creative recipes for specialist vape stores.
Interview with Alexandre Tavernier & Ludovic Oury (Vape 47)
04/24/25 | REAL CLEAR HEALTH
The latest CDC data confirms that e-cigarette use is correlated with a decline in smoking.
Latest CDC Data Confirms E-Cigarette Use Correlates with Declines in Smoking
24/04/25 | GREEK REPORTER
Greece is preparing to ban flavors, except tobacco and mint, to protect young people. As a reminder, the tobacco industry is very present in the country, particularly in the production of heated tobacco...
Greece Set to Ban Teen-Friendly Flavoured E-Cigarettes
24/04/25 | UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Study, University of Bristol. Young adults are more likely to switch from smoking to vaping when they are aware of risk reduction, but misinformation discourages change.
24/04/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent. Interview with Jean Lorcy, co-founder of FUU. Sacerdoce: to innovate and create the best possible e-liquids to help quit smoking.
Interview with Jean Lorcy (Co-founder, The FUU)
04/23/25 | VAPING POST
In Thailand, it's better to be a smoker than a vapoteur. This article is not an April Fool's joke.
Thailand: a government app to denounce vapers
04/23/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent. Interview with Arnaud Jouany and Thomas Pons, founders of the Protect brand, an original concept: linking vaping with the preservation of bees.
Interview with Arnaud Jouany and Thomas Pons (Protect)
04/23/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent. Interview with Christophe Bourgeois and Lucie Lefrand - Le Petit Vapoteur, 7,000 orders a day, 100 specialist stores, a company with a mission, CSR commitments and defense of the vape industry.
Interview with Christophe Bourgeois and Lucie Lefrand (Le Petit Vapoteur)
04/23/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent. Interview with Mathieu Czernichow, founder of Curieux, an iconoclastic brand of e-liquids born in a context of specialized stores, field knowledge.
Interview with Mathieu Czernichow (Founder, Curieux E-liquides)
04/22/25 | ALAN
Listen to podcast [1h10]: When quitting smoking becomes a pleasure - Pr. Bertrand Dautzenberg. Author of the 1st report on vape in 2013, still as clear-sighted and committed to responsible vape independent of tobacco lobbies.
Healthier Humanity - podcast Episode 8
04/22/25 | VAPEXPO
VAPEXPO 2025 conferences - Vape & ecology
04/22/25 | VAPEXPO
VAPEXPO 2025 conferences - Will vape be recognized as a cessation tool?
04/22/25 | VAPEXPO
VAPEXPO 2025 conferences - Financing in vape: how to get started and grow?
04/22/25 | VAPEXPO
VAPEXPO 2025 conferences - E-liquid made in France: a safe bet?
04/22/25 | VAPEXPO
VAPEXPO 2025 conferences - The tax
19/04/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent. Interview with Maxence Moutoussamy, Retail and Development Director at Vapostore, a long-established network of specialist stores with over 180 outlets in France and Switzerland.
Interview with Maxence Moutoussamy (Retail and Development Director, Vapostore)
04/18/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent. Interview with Charly Pairaud, General Manager of VDLV, an iconic e-liquid brand, with a quality approach based on science and innovation, such as the creation of the first "vapological" nicotine.
Interview with Charly Pairaud (General Manager, VDLV)
04/18/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent. Interview with Valentin Silly, Purchasing Manager at Cigusto, a network created over 12 years ago and now boasting over 200 specialist stores throughout France.
Interview with Valentin Silly (Purchasing Manager, Cigusto)
04/17/25 | MONONEWS
Greece is preparing to phase out flavors in vape (except tobacco and menthol), to protect young people... and women.
Putting an end to electronic cigarette flavors
04/17/25 | EGORA
Vaping: "clearly effective for weaning", "vape does not maintain addiction". Field medicine is increasingly distinguishing itself from the anti-vape rhetoric peddled by the anti-smoking bureaucracy.
Smoking cessation: put an end to preconceived ideas
16/04/25 | VAPING POST
Exceptional interview with Jean Moiroud, President of FIVAPE. 25 minutes to take stock of what's at stake and the commitments of an industry at the forefront of the fight against smoking.
04/13/25 | CDC NATIONAL YOUTH TOBACCO SURVEY
In the United States, smoking among young people has disappeared!!!! And nicotine consumption via vape has dropped by 70%. Merci la vape, the greatest exit from smoking that has ever existed.
10/04/25 | VAPING POST
First extract from a forthcoming interview with Jean Moiroud, President of FIVAPE.
Interview with Jean Moiroud (President, FIVAPE)
10/04/25 | RTL
Itw Jérémie Pourchez - Écoles des Mines St-Etienne. Are vaping products toxic to the lungs? Noxious, according to all studies, incomparable to tobacco.
Tobacco: are vaping products toxic to the lungs?
10/04/25 | COURRIER INTERNATIONAL
A resounding failure. To protect young people, flavoring (≠ tobacco) was banned in the Netherlands. A year later: a flourishing black market, schoolchildren have become dealers, the authorities are worried because the products are no longer controlled, nicotine, drugs.
In Dutch secondary schools, the illegal puff market is firmly established
09/04/25 | VAPING POST
Our members have talent! Interview with Olivier MARTZEL, Managing Director of Gaïatrend / Alfaliquid, a company founded in 2008 and one of the pioneers of vape in France.
Interview with Olivier Martzel (Managing Director - Gaïatrend)
07/04/25 | VAPING POST
"Fivape is the only legitimate, active and recognized union capable of influencing decisions affecting our sector. Read our President Jean Moiroud's committed opinion on behalf of all our members. It's time to mobilize.
FIVAPE: membership is resistance
04/04/25 | RTBF
A new fad among young people in Belgium, with their demonization of nicotine and their confusion... It's the smoke that kills, not the nicotine.
Smoking medicinal herbs to replace tobacco is becoming increasingly popular: good for your health?
04/04/25 | VAPING POST
Santé publique France. Cardiovascular diseases, 1M hospitalizations, 140,000 deaths per year. Smoking is one of the main factors. Vape professionals, the N°1 players in smoking cessation, are fully mobilized to help smokers.
The danger of sucralose in e-liquids
03/04/25 | FRANCE 3 BRETAGNE
Following the moral panic that helped popularize them and the unprepared ban, puffs are flooding the black market with products that are impossible to control. Young people needed to be protected, but now they're even more exposed.
02/04/25 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
FAKE NEWS! Statement by Peter Hajek: "In the vapoteurs group, only people who were unable to quit smoking despite using vape were included. Vapers who had quit smoking were excluded."
Vapotage and smoking cessation: smokier than you think?
01/04/25 | SPANISH NEWS TODAY
Very bad news for the fight against smoking: Spain now taxes vaping at €0.15/ml from zero to 15 mg/ml and €0.20/ml above 15 mg/ml.