FIVAPE's media watch on vaping in France and around the world: November 2025
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30/11/25 | NOUVEL OBS
The Alliance Contre le Tabac (Alliance Against Tobacco) has taken direct aim at the independent vape industry.
"I started smoking with a puff": how vaping is taking over from smoking among young people.
30/11/25 | OUEST FRANCE
New bad buzz for vaping due to an incident involving an unprotected battery at the bottom of a bag. That's why it's so important to use specialist retailers to get the right advice on equipment and vaping practices: quality, efficiency and safety.
His electronic cigarette explodes on the RER, severely burning his hands
11/29/25 | DON'T KILL VAPE
TO WATCH AND SHARE. Article 23 is a sledgehammer blow to the tobacco industry-independent vape professionals who work every day to help people stop smoking. Share this film around you, send it to your elected representatives...
Meet A&L: distance selling, local employment. Don't kill the vape...
29/11/25 | CHARENTE LIBRE
"If the law passes, my 14 employees will end up unemployed". Christophe Michelot opened his first specialist vape store ten years ago. Today, his six stores display a message in the window: "Don't kill vape!"
The law that's making vaping stores cough
27/11/25 | VAPING POST
A political victory against article 23 is preferable and priority = general mobilization.
Article 23: an ill-conceived and unconstitutional text
27/11/25 | VAPING POST
A large number of amendments to article 23 have been tabled by senators. This is a good sign: the subject is very much on the agenda, and the rejection of the article by the deputies in the National Assembly sends a strong message to their fellow senators, who will have to make up their minds.
Article 23: amendments proposed by the Senate
27/11/25 | L'HUMANITร
Those involved in vape know Prof. Benoรฎt Vallet well. Director General of Health, he visited the Vape Summit in 2016.
Anses: why the Director General, who opposed the Duplomb law, was not reappointed to head the agency
26/11/25 | ACTU.FR
The mobilization of vape professionals led to a first victory with the deletion of Article 23 in the National Assembly.
26/11/25 | VAPING POST
Article 23 was approved by the Finance Committee, without amendment, and therefore in its initial version. This recommendation carries considerable weight. Here are some explanations.
Article 23: the Senate Finance Committee wants to kill vape
25/11/25 | LE PROGRรS
"Vaping is not smoking, and vice versa. We have nothing to do with the tobacco industry", insists Kevin Balland, director of Arรดmes & Liquides, whose main activity is online sales.
E-cigarette bill: A & L says its back is to the wall
25/11/25 | SรNAT
ALERT: does the Ministry of Health want to kill vape? The Senate Finance Committee has decided to propose adopting Article 23 of the PLF without making any changes.
25/11/25 | MONITORING THE FUTURE
In the USA, nicotine consumption by young people has collapsed. Whatever the product, especially cigarettes, they no longer smoke. The so-called "gateway effect" does not exist. In France, too, youth smoking has collapsed (OFDT data).
24/11/25 | BFM TV
More details. Thanks to the work of the OFDT, it has been demonstrated that vape has not had a "gateway effect", and no one dares say otherwise: smoking among young people has plummeted.
"The ratio has reversed": a new generation urges parents to give up cigarettes
23/11/25 | VAPING POST
The PLF is about to be examined by the senators. The text they'll be working on is the one presented to the Council of Ministers, with Article 23 resurrected. Follow FIVAPE's news this week, total mobilization!
France: National Assembly rejects PLF 2026, Article 23 could return from the dead
23/11/25 | UNIVADIS
Despite the omerta imposed by the anti-tobacco lobbies, the medical media are publicizing the consensus of the Sociรฉtรฉ Francophone de Tabacologie: e-cigarettes are an important smoking cessation tool.
A consensus of tobaccologists determines the place of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation
21/11/25 | EUREPORTER
In France, we are very focused on the Finance Bill. Meanwhile, COP11 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is taking place in Geneva in a climate that is becoming explosive between the advocates of harm reduction and the prohibitionists who want to ban all nicotine-containing products... except cigarettes.
21/11/25 | CAPITAL
The media are now paying close attention to FIVAPE's communications: they're already announcing the next mobilization in Paris on December 9!
Budget 2026: MPs reject taxation on vaping and electronic cigarettes
21/11/25 | VAPING POST
As a special law is by definition temporary, it would only apply until a Finance Bill is finally passed, probably in the first quarter of 2026.
France: the government announces a special law in the event of a budget failure
21/11/25 | VAPING POST
Contrary to concerns expressed on social networks, amendment I-3950 adopted this morning only concerns herbal smoking products and has no impact on vaping.
Amendment I-3950: vaping is not concerned
21/11/25 | LCP
Introduction to amendment no. 1277, which called for the withdrawal of article 23 of the Finance Bill, by its author Aurรฉlien Le Coq: electronic cigarettes are an extremely effective alternative for quitting smoking and saving lives.
Vapotage: MPs vote against tax planned in draft 2026 budget
11/20/25 | SUD RADIO
Article 23 has been withdrawn by the National Assembly, but the measures, and indeed the full article, may resurface in the still lengthy course of the Finance Bill.
A tax on electronic cigarettes
20/11/25 | VAPING POST
Article 23 was deleted from the French National Assembly. This is a first victory, but the Finance Act still has a long way to go. Here are some explanations.
Article 23: MPs vote to delete the article and temporarily save French vape.
20/11/25 | LE POHER
Dr Irรจne FRACHON: "I'm very provapotage". The renowned lung specialist points out that smoking is involved in 80% of lung diseases.
Mois sans tabacโ: what are the best ways to stop smoking?
11/20/25 | RADIO CLASSIQUE
Interview with Tanguy Grรฉard, co-founder of Le Petit Vapoteur, on the issues raised by Article 23 of the PLF on vaping products, online sales, the status of stores, a "sledgehammer blow" to the independent sector, thousands of jobs threatened and customers returning to cigarettes.
Tanguy Grรฉard, co-founder of Le Petit Vapoteur
19/11/25 | MEDIAPART
Mediapart's in-depth investigation of the forces at work around Article 23 of the PLF and the battle being waged over vaping products. More than ever, Fivape's total independence from the tobacco industry and its militant commitment are essential levers for defending our professions and protecting a responsible industry. Thank you to Mediapart for your serious recognition of this reality.
Budget: MPs at the heart of a fierce battle over nicotine
19/11/25 | LE FIGARO
The tax on vaping products is the focus of attention in the media and among elected representatives, but it's the tree that hides the forest. The assimilation of vaping products to tobacco, the ban on online sales and the status of retailers must be removed from Article 23 of the Finance Bill to avoid the extermination of the independent sector in favor of the tobacco industry. It's not just a question of taxation, it's a public health issue.
Budget 2026: from 0 to 2 euros per bottle, the MPs' great discrepancy on the "vapotage" tax
19/11/25 | BFM NORD
An 8-minute feature on the issue of vaping and the consequences of the measures in Article 23 of the Finance Bill if they were applied.
19/11/25 | VAPING POSTE
Like all major democracies, France has a complex political system. To help you follow the progress of Article 23, find out where it stands and what the possibilities are, we've put together a summary. To help you understand.
France: Finance bill and assumptions on article 23
19/11/25 | VAPING POST
To combat these inequalities, La Vape du Cลur works with more than 300 health care structures, including medical-social, health, residential and outpatient establishments, as well as prison facilities.
Article 23: La Vape du Cลur on hiatus
19/11/25 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
A salutary plea that we hope will be heard, to be read and shared.- Pr Bertrand Dautzenberg, 50 years of fighting against tobacco, authority on vaping, author of the first report on vape in France, at the request of a health minister, Marisol Touraine in 2013.
Stop the nonsense of attacking vape, an effective product to accompany the end of smoking!
19/11/25 | LE QUOTIDIEN DU MรDECIN
The Sociรฉtรฉ Francophone de Tabacologie's publication of its experts' consensus on the usefulness of vaping for smoking cessation is finally finding some echo in the medical press.
18/11/25 | BFM TV
18 min podcast, important to listen to in full. While Santรฉ publique France totally ignores vaping in its communications, even when it comes to explaining the 4 million fewer smokers over the last 10 years, field medicine reminds the agency of the realities.
Neutral package, price hikes... How France is eradicating smoking
16/11/25 | LA TRIBUNE
2 million French people have quit smoking with the help of vapotage. But in this article, Santรฉ publique France does not feel it necessary to highlight and recognize the work done by those involved in vaping over the past 15 years.
15/11/25 | OUEST FRANCE
A banner appeared in the window of the Barrat'Vape store on rue Villedeneu in Lamballe-Armor (Cรดtes-d'Armor). The banner reads: "They want to treat us like a tobacconist's, which we are not".
19/11/25 | PRESSE CITRON
FIVAPE's message is loud and clear: "The Finance Bill organizes the death of the independent sector in favor of the tobacco industry".
"Vaper is not smoking": tax on electronic cigarettes creates fierce controversy
14/11/25 | L'ESSENTIEL DE L'รCO
Vaping products in Article 23 of the Finance Bill: a comprehensive and educational article.
Taxes: will electronic cigarettes soon be as expensive as tobacco?
14/11/25 | VAPING POST
As the Senate embarks on its examination of the text, FIVAPE has called on experts to provide a comprehensive review of the health, social, legal and economic consequences of Article 23 of the Finance Bill on vaping products.
Article 23 of the PLF 2026: general mobilization against a tax deemed "contrary to European law".
14/11/25 | SUD RADIO
Asked about the tax on vaping by the journalist, who mentions the petition launched by FIVAPE and its nearly 200,000 signatures, Stรฉphanie Rist replies that, as a doctor and Minister of Health, she is fully aware that vaping can be a useful tool for smoking cessation.
13/11/25 | LE PARISIEN
With 200,000 signatures, the Ne tuez pas la vape petition hit the headlines this morning following an AFP dispatch. The government still seems blinded by the issue of young people, when less than 1% of users have never smoked.
12/11/25 | LE FIGARO
The Ne tuez pas la vape petition soon reached 200,000 signatories. Added to the 7 regional mobilizations, this is causing renewed attention in the national press. Let's keep on mobilizing so that our elected representatives and the government hear us!
Budget 2026: a petition against the future vaping tax reaches 200,000 signatures
11/11/25 | LES รCHOS
A very uncertain "vaping tax"... Extract: ๐๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ข๐น๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆฬ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฆฬ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ขฬ ๐ง๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ค๐ช๐จ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฆฬ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ข๐ค ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ.
Budget 2026: these taxes and tax loopholes are still being targeted by MPs
12/11/25 | LE MONDE
An in-depth study of long-standing events in other countries that deserves to be applauded. But the timing is questionable at a time - Mois Sans Tabac - when harm reduction must be approached with education, not sensationalism.
Influential nicotine cardiologist receives thousands of euros from vaping industry
11/11/25 | FรDรRATION ADDICTION
At the Sociรฉtรฉ francophone de tabacologie, vapotage enjoys consensus. Fรฉdรฉration Addiction echoes the SFT's October 23 publication: a clear direction for public policy.
At the Sociรฉtรฉ francophone de tabacologie, the consensus is in favour of vapotage
11/11/25 | VAPING POST
The Finance Bill is on its way through, so here's an update before debates resume. FIVAPE teams are on the bridge 24/7. Follow our communications.
Amendments to Article 23 of the PLF 2026: the future of French vape at stake
09/11/25 | EUROPE 1
While they have helped millions of people to quit smoking, vape professionals are appalled by Article 23 of the PLF and its measures on vaping products; "We have employees who are frightened, who come to us and ask: But what's going to happen? Are we going to have any work next year?"
Will new taxes and regulations kill off the vaping sector?
09/11/25 | OUR WORLD IN DATA
The situation is identical in France, and has been denounced for years by harm reduction associations. Lobbies are influencing public authorities and public opinion to the point of making people believe that smoking is NO LESS dangerous than vaping, to the benefit of... the tobacco industry. This misinformation must stop. In the public interest and for the sake of public health, the perpetrators must be stopped.
While vaping is not risk-free, it is less harmful than tobacco
09/11/25 | FRANCE BLEUE
Mobilizations in the regions continue to challenge local media, here in Nantes. "๐'๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ช ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช ๐ต๐ข๐น๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช ๐ข๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฅ'๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ข๐ถ๐น ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฆฬ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆฬ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช ๐ท๐ฆ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆฬ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆฬ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช ๐ท๐ฆ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆฬ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ถ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฅ'๐ฉ๐ถ๐ช ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ."
A tax on vaping products worries e-cigarette sellers around Nantes
08/11/25 | FรDรRATION ADDICTION
Fรฉdรฉration Addiction calls on people to sign the Don't kill vape petition! " ...๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ท๐ฐ๐ช๐ณ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐คฬง๐ข๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ขฬ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข๐ชฬ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฐฬ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ถ ๐ท๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ญ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆฬ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆฬ๐ด ๐ข๐ถ ๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ข๐ค. ๐๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด'๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต..." He added: "๐๐ข ๐ต๐ข๐น๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ถ ๐ท๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ฅ'๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ช๐ณ ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆฬ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฆฬ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ง ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆฬ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฆฬ๐ด."
"Don't kill vape!" a petition against the taxation of vaping
07/11/25 | TENDANCE OUEST
Article 23 of the Finance Bill on vaping products, threats to direct and indirect jobs in the industry: "๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด-๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด, ๐ช๐ญ ๐บ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด ๐๐ด๐ข๐ต, ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฅ'๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ข๐ช๐ญ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ถ๐น ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆฬ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฅ'๐ข๐ท๐ฐ๐ช๐ณ ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆฬ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ค ๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆฬ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ฐ-๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ. "
Finance law. "I'm fighting for my job": the concerns of the vaping sector in Cherbourg
07/11/25 | FRANCE BLEU
Yesterday's mobilization in Strasbourg: "We're depriving smokers of the number-one means of weaning themselves off the habit," testified the professionals, themselves users of their products.
Tax on vaping products: in Strasbourg, white smoke and black anger from vape professionals.
05/11/25 | BFM ALSACE
Here in Strasbourg. Thank you to the local media for echoing all the mobilizations in France!
05/11/25 | HIT WEST
Local media in Brittany / Vannes this morning: as discussions on the 2026 Finance Bill continue, one of the bill's articles has e-cigarette professionals up in arms. They're mobilizing across France this Wednesday. In the west of France, they gathered in Vannes in the late morning to demonstrate. Around 200 of them gathered on the port.
E-cigarettes: why are professionals so fired up in Vannes?
05/11/25 | RรPUBLICAIN LORRAIN
Mobilization in Strasbourg, local media echo: in reaction to Article 23 of the Finance Bill, which among other things provides for a tax on e-cigarette liquid bottles, vape professionals are demonstrating this Wednesday morning in Strasbourg.
Proposed tax on vaping liquids: vape professionals fulminate
05/11/25 | ICI BRETAGNE
Excellent report on the mobilization in Vannes for the Brittany region. Please note that, following the report, a journalist claims to "decipher" the issue of vaping, but seems to have obtained her information from fake news sites hosted by the anti-smoking / anti-vape political lobbies and not from the "scientific community" (the "Oxford University" study is implausible).
05/11/25 | OUEST FRANCE
Very good feedback in the local media following the mobilization of Brittany's professionals in Vannes.
"Nearly 4,000 jobs threatened": Brittany's vape professionals take a stand against the Finance Bill
05/11/25 | SUD OUEST
The media were out in force yesterday at the professionals' mobilization in Bordeaux! New article: "If we are subject to excise duties and customs, this means that, in the long term, vape will only be distributed by tobacconists".
"Don't kill vape": e-cigarette sellers rally in Bordeaux against the government's forthcoming tax
05/11/25 | TENDANCE OUEST
Tanguy Grรฉard, co-founder of Le Petit Vapoteur: "It's scandalous for us that they want to equate us with tobacco. Thousands of direct and indirect jobs threatened. Podcast 7 min.
Taxes on e-liquids: Lecornu urges the French to start smoking again
05/11/25 | FRANCE BLEU
Media present in Cherbourg: 300 people mobilized to defend vape, which "plays a recognized role in the fight against smoking; taxing could limit the positive impact of the device".
300 demonstrators in Cherbourg to defend the vapoteuse
05/11/25 | NEWS
Local media present in Orlรฉans, nearly 350 people mobilized! "We are tobacco's best enemy
Vape tax in Budget 2026: "We're saving lives," say middle market traders in Orleans
05/11/25 | FRANCE 3
Local media understand and echo the anger of professionals: a stab in the back! A proposed tax on vaping products is worrying industry professionals. From all over the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, they demonstrated this Tuesday November 4 in Bordeaux to withdraw this article from the finance bill currently being studied by the French National Assembly.
"It's a stab in the back": tax on vaping products, 20,000 jobs threatened according to the industry
05/11/25 | RTS
Echo in Switzerland: the Sociรฉtรฉ francophone de tabacologie (SFT) sought to identify the various consensuses on its use in the management of smokers, in particular its effectiveness in smoking cessation and its usefulness as a tool for reducing the risks of smoking-related morbidity and mortality.
Electronic cigarettes are effective for quitting smoking, according to a consensus of specialists
05/11/25 | LE TรLรGRAMME
The mobilization in Vannes in the local media: Around 200 retailers and manufacturers of vaporizers and vaping products from all over Brittany gathered on the Vannes harbor esplanade on Wednesday, November 5. They are complaining about an article that concerns them in the finance bill currently being debated in the French Assembly.
"Don't kill vaping": Breton vaping professionals demonstrate in Vannes against the Finance Bill
05/11/25 | LA PROVENCE
Mobilizations in local media, here Aix-en-Povence: "...๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ถ ๐ท๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ญ๐ข ๐ท๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ถ ๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ข๐ค, ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฒ๐ถ' "๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ยฐ1 "
05/11/25 | FRANCE TV
From 37 min. very educational sequence on the Mag de la Santรฉ, on the essential role of nicotine in helping to stop smoking.
05/11/25 | CNEWS
"This Wednesday, November 5, the vape sector is making its voice heard. Companies, e-liquid manufacturers, online sales sites and specialist stores are taking to the streets in several French cities in the name of one cause: protesting against Article 23 of the 2026 Finance Bill."
05/11/25 | FRANCE BLEU
"The vaporizer presents 95% fewer health risks. Because the problem is more combustion than nicotine. It's really something that needs to be clarified [...] And if it works, we need to continue," says Catherine Delorme, President of the Fรฉdรฉration Addiction, who is particularly opposed to a government plan to tax vaping products more heavily.
05/11/25 | LA PROVENCE
The local press announces tomorrow's mobilization in Aix-en-Provence! Meet at 10am, Place de l'Hรดtel de Ville.
Regional vaping industry rallies in Aix in the face of plans for increased taxation
05/11/25 | OUEST FRANCE
Anna PIC, MP, supports the mobilization of vape professionals independent of the tobacco industry: "... it's a public health issue to ensure that these people who have given up smoking don't have to go back to tobacconists to buy their product...". - Mobilization currently underway in Bordeaux, and tomorrow in Cherbourg, Vannes, Lille, Orlรฉans, Aix-en-Provence and Strasbourg.
Taxing vape: MP Anna Pic with Cherbourg employees against the bill
04/11/25 | VAPING POST
Many healthcare professionals and associations in contact with smokers advocate harm reduction and vaping as an aid to smoking cessation.
Associations and health professionals defending vape against Article 23
03/11/25 | RMC
Now completely "old-fashioned", young people are turning away from cigarettes, even if it means vaping. Smoking among minors is plummeting in France, with 10 times fewer teenage smokers in 20 years. A phenomenon that worries the Alliance Contre le Tabac.
03/11/25 | TENDANCE OUEST
Despite misinformation and invisibilization, smokers who decide to try to quit during Mois Sans Tabac are considering trying electronic cigarettes. Tip: go to a specialist vape store to get the right advice and support.
03/11/25 | FRANCE BLEU
By dint of demonization and confusion, doctors find themselves having to re-explain the use of nicotine to help quit smoking, whether with medication or vaping. What kills is combustion, not nicotine.
03/11/25 | BFM TV
Reminder: the sale of vaping products is prohibited to minors. Taxing vape means taxing only the 99% of people who use it to stop smoking.
"A deterrent effect among young people"? Tax on vaping divides healthcare professionals
03/11/25 | BFM TV
18-minute podcast, important to listen to in full! While Santรฉ publique France totally ignores vape in its communications, even when it comes to explaining the 4 million fewer smokers over the last 10 years, field medicine is calling the agency back to reality. Tobaccologists who work with vape can't imagine sending their patients to a tobacconist!
Neutral package, price hikes... How France is eradicating smoking
03/11/25 | DESTINATION SANTร
The publication of the consensus on vaping by the doctors and tobaccologists of the Sociรฉtรฉ Francophone de Tabacologie, a true learned society made up of professionals who work with smokers, is receiving more and more attention in the health media.
Vape, a proven ally in smoking cessation
03/11/25 | PUBLIC SรNAT
Such is the misinformation about vaping that it leads doctors to claim - apparently in good faith - that vaping kills and causes cancer. But no one on the set contradicts them. Wouldn't that be the role of the Alliance Contre le Tabac? Rather than worrying about the mobilization of FIVAPE and professionals independent of the tobacco industry, who are simply defending their jobs (25,000) and their mission: to help people stop smoking (already 2 million French people at least since the arrival of vape)?
Lung cancer: How can tobacco be de-normalized?
02/11/25 | ICI DORDOGNE
"The major risk is that many people will go back to cigarettes", ICI Dordogne announces the mobilization on Tuesday November 4 in Bordeaux, and gives the floor to vape professionals who are very worried about the Finance Bill and its measures on vaping products in Article 23. If you're a professional, retailer, e-tailer or manufacturer, contact your local media!
Proposed tax on vaping products worries Dordogne e-cigarette vendors
02/11/25 | ICI CENTER - VAL DE LOIRE
To defend vape jobs, contact your local media! Full report + interview on ICI Centre - Val de Loire
01/11/25 | LA CHAINE DE LA VAP
Interview conducted at Vapexpo Lyon before the current crisis. Jean Moiroud - President and Agnรจs Hekpazo - Treasurer, explain the role and functioning of FIVAPE, which represents French vape professionals independent of the tobacco industry. Thanks to La Chaรฎne de la Vap!
Vape professionals: Fivape fights for you!
01/11/25 | E-SMOKING
Grab a coffee and settle in for eight minutes of crystal-clear explanations.
01/11/25 | SUD RADIO
Jean MOIROUD, President of FIVAPE, was on the radio this morning to defend vape and raise the issue of unfair taxes on vaping that would harm its "competitiveness" against cigarettes that kill!
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01/11/25 | VAPING POST
If the excise duty on vaping were to be passed under the conditions defined in Article 23, the economic results would be negative. Even the French state would lose out considerably. This is the conclusion of a FIVAPE impact study.
Vapour tax: a bad deal on all fronts
01/11/25 | FRANCE 3
25,000 jobs and hundreds of positive-impact businesses threatened all over France. Local media outlets are echoing the movement to defend vape and jobs, contact them! ci France 3 Centre - Val de Loire. Excerpt: "It's incomprehensible to associate vape with tobacco and impose the same taxes on them. Tobacco is the poison, vape is the cure."
Finance Bill 2026: vape professionals fear their sector will be put to death