FIVAPE media monitoring on vaping in France and around the world: December 2025
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12/29/25 | TAHITI NEWS
The bill to completely ban vaping in Tahiti has been rejected by the Council of State. However, the sector remains under threat from regulations such as a ban on flavors, plain packaging, and the same status as tobacco for professionals.
The Council of State overturns the ban on vaping
12/23/25 | THE PRACTITIONER'S REVIEW
A member of the Academy of Medicine, professor of public health, former president of the CNCT (National Council for Tobacco Control) and honorary president of the Alliance contre le Tabac (Alliance Against Tobacco), co-author of the report known as the "Five Wise Men" report that led to the Évin law, Professor Gérard Dubois recounts the history of the fight against smoking in France.
12/22/25 | EURACTIV
In this interview, European Commissioner for Health Olivér Várhelyi stated that he is "100%" convinced that new products such as e-cigarettes, heated tobacco, and nicotine pouches are just as harmful as traditional cigarettes. He also stated that the important thing is that our proposals are scientifically based...
EXCLUSIVE: EU health chief 100% convinced new products are as harmful as cigarettes
12/22/25 | WHY DOCTOR
ALERT: New misinformation about nicotine and risk reduction? An article published in the European Heart Journal has been picked up by the media and could be echoed by anti-vaping lobbies. Experts responded last week.
Whether smoked or vaped, nicotine is never risk-free.
12/25/19 | MDPI
INFO / MISINFORMATION. Another example of a study that was retracted yesterday, three years after its publication. The authors claimed that vaping increased cardiovascular risks, particularly strokes.
RETRACTED: Effect Comparison of E-Cigarette and Traditional Smoking and Association with Stroke
12/25/17 | VAPING POST
All explanations regarding the Joint Committee sequence and the possible outcomes for the finance bill and Article 23 in particular.
Article 23: The role of the joint committee
12/25/16 | FRANCE INFO
Senators passed the finance bill by 187 votes to 109. The next step is therefore the Joint Committee meeting on Friday, December 19.
2026 budget: Senate passes finance bill, text referred back to joint committee on Friday
12/25/16 | VIDEO PREMIERE
Lobbies are sowing confusion between smoke, which kills, and nicotine, which contributes to addiction but is also used in nicotine replacement therapies and vaping to help people quit smoking. In response to this misinformation, this film reveals everything you need to know about nicotine, with input from numerous scientific experts and healthcare professionals.
Must-see: You Don't Know Nicotine
12/25/16 | THE VAPING CHANNEL
La Chaine de la Vape was in Paris last Tuesday for the mobilization! Report
We won't give up! Mobilization Paris Dec. 2025
12/25/16 | VAPING POST
All explanations regarding the Joint Committee sequence and the possible outcomes for the finance bill and Article 23 in particular.
Article 23: The role of the joint committee
12/25/14 | OXFORD ACADEMIC
A major new study by Queen Mary University of London has found that dual users—people who vape and smoke—reduce their intake of harmful chemicals and are also more likely to quit smoking than those who continue to smoke only.
12/25/14 | LES ÉCHOS
The work of FIVAPE and the mobilization of professionals are bearing fruit. In this article on the results of the Santé publique France health barometer, the economic press accurately reflects the position of our independent tobacco industry, as well as the challenges it faces and its fight against Article 23 of the PLF.
E-cigarettes: figures showing the surge in vaping in France
12/25/14 | LE PARISIEN
A rare article that, without taking sides in the controversy, at least presents all points of view on vaping following the publication of the results of the Santé publique France health barometer. The journalist—who specializes in health—highlights the consensus reached by experts from the SFT, the only learned society in tobacco studies, which carries weight in the face of allegations from anti-vaping lobbies. [for subscribers only]
More and more French people are vaping... but does it really help them quit smoking?
12/25/14 | FRANCE INFO
As in the US in 2019 (EVALI crisis), criminal organizations are exploiting the use of vaping. They are taking advantage of prohibitionist policies and the resulting black market to target young people in particular. FIVAPE is warning the authorities that the sudden ban on vaping, without consultation or preparation, has contributed to the development of parallel markets.
12/12/25 | BFM TV
According to the Santé publique France barometer, more and more French people prefer to live with vaping rather than die with cigarettes. This trend, which has been evident for more than ten years, is unpopular with the CNCT, which has launched a smear campaign against FIVAPE and independent vaping players in the tobacco industry.
Is vaping harmful to your health?
12/12/25 | OUEST FRANCE
Total ban on vaping in Mexico. For public health reasons. Eight years in prison for importing or selling electronic cigarettes. That's less severe than in Singapore... 20 years. PS: In Mexico, cigarettes are still on sale at €4.50 a pack.
In Mexico, lawmakers pass a law criminalizing the sale of e-cigarettes
12/25/11 | VAPING POST
The Vaping Post asks the question: is an article published in Charlie Hebdo really an article by Charlie Hebdo?
12/25/11 | SIGMAGAZINE
The trade press in Italy is interested in events in France, recalling what happened in their country and the consequences almost 10 years ago.
Same story, different actors: the French protest echoes the Italian one of 2017
12/10/25 | SOUTH RADIO
Vaping professionals speak out during yesterday's protest in front of the Department of Health.
Adoption of the Social Security budget/ Vaping professionals angry
12/10/25 | FRANCE 3 PARIS ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
Healthcare professionals also disagree with the measures in Article 23 on vaping products, which threaten the independent tobacco industry. "Closer to nicotine substitutes than to the spirit of cigarettes," according to Prof. Dautzenberg.
Is taxing e-cigarettes like tobacco "harmful to public health"?
12/10/25 | LE FIGARO
"The urgent need to provide France with a budget must not be used as a pretext for sacrificing a tool for smoking cessation and 25,000 jobs in hundreds of dynamic companies, to the benefit of tobacco companies, which are clearly supported by the Bercy project, their regulatory authority."
12/09/25 | FRANCE INFO
All this is happening quietly, without consulting us," Jean Moiroud laments. "It's as if the government has been pursuing a strategy to kill us behind our backs. And the Department of Health hasn't said a word," he says, describing a vaping industry that is "highly developed in France."
12/09/25 | FRANCE INTER
The mobilization of vaping stakeholders is making headlines in the morning news. Professionals are speaking out, expressing their incomprehension and determination in the face of a "stealth" maneuver by the French Ministry of Finance aimed at eliminating the independent tobacco industry. They are calling on the Ministry of Health to save the smoking cessation aid most widely used by the French. At 2 min 30 on the replay:
12/09/25 | CNEWS
General mobilization today in Paris: "Industry stakeholders will gather at noon at Les Invalides, then march in procession to the Ministry of Health."
12/05/25 | THE VAL D'OISE GAZETTE
Local media continue to report on the impossible situation that Article 23 of the draft finance bill would create for the independent sector. They are circulating the petition and announcing a protest in Paris on Tuesday, December 9. Let's turn out in as large numbers as possible!
Vaping: the potential tax that has this Val-d'Oise seller coughing
12/25/04 | CAPITAL
"Fivape, the French vaping industry association, has been fighting against Article 23 of the draft finance bill since the beginning of autumn. After organizing two days of regional protests on November 4 and 5, the organization is calling for a new rally on December 9 in Paris, before the 2026 budget review is finalized."
2026 budget: senators oppose the government's proposed tax on vaping products
12/25/04 | LA MANCHE LIBRE
Local elected officials support businesses and jobs in their area. Here, Manche senators David Margueritte and Sébastien Fagnen tabled several amendments deemed essential to preserving jobs.
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. David Margueritte and Sébastien Fagnen, two strategies on vaping
12/25/03 | DON'T KILL VAPING
WATCH AND SHARE. Article 23 is a crushing blow to independent vaping professionals in the tobacco industry, who work hard every day to help people quit smoking. Share this film with your friends and family and send it to your elected representatives...
Meet A&L: distance selling, local employment. Don't kill the vape...
12/25/03 | VAPING POST
Full update on the Senate's review of Article 23 of the draft finance bill. It was not rejected in its entirety as it was in the National Assembly, but rather "unraveled."
Senate rejects deletion of Article 23
12/02/25 | LES ÉCHOS
While the National Assembly had chosen to remove it, the Senators decided to dissect and "unravel" Article 23, which equates vaping products with tobacco. This is another positive and encouraging step forward, even if there is still a long way to go, as the PLF has not yet completed its journey.
2026 budget: Senators raise the stakes on the "small parcel" tax
12/02/25 | PUBLIC SENATE
Senate: Taxing vaping is taxing smoking cessation. Parliamentarians from the right and left, as well as centrists, supported amendments against this new tax on a product used by 4 million French people.
2026 budget: senators reject tax on vaping products
11/25/02 | VAPING POST
Defending vaping today is not about defending a business or an industry. It is about defending an idea of France that believes in progress, that trusts its citizens, and that prefers the courage of pragmatism to the cowardice of submission. It is the right to fight for a better life. And we will not give up that right.
Our crime? Finding an emergency exit.
12/01/25 | AIDUCE
AIDUCE is calling for people to join the protest in Paris on December 9. "Faced with the unacceptable Article 23 of the Finance Bill, vaping professionals, health and risk reduction stakeholders, vapers, and citizens have had enough."