FIVAPE's media watch on vaping in France and around the world: September 2025
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01/10/25 | RFI
With the banning of puffs (without any serious consultation with professionals), the black market is exploding in France, with no control over the products. This raises fears of a massive influx of these products, which are particularly dangerous for young people. Who will be held responsible in the event of a health crisis? Who will be blamed, vape, as in the days of EVALI, or those who have created a breeding ground for drug dealers?
Zombie vaporizers", the new drug intoxicating Asia's youth.
09/30/25 | GENERATION SANS TABAC
Why is the WHO waging war on vaping when it's the No. 1 tool for quitting smoking? Effective and popular, vaping has already helped millions of smokers. It's also a proven fact that the primary factor influencing young people to start smoking is the influence of their parents. The risk is twice as high with one parent who smokes, and three times as high with both parents.
According to the WHO, children whose parents smoke run a higher risk of stunted growth
09/30/25 | FRANCE TV PRO
In Tahiti, in the face of the law banning vaping altogether from 2027, the media give the floor to those who are really concerned: a vape professional, a doctor and a young consumer, three different perspectives for a debate. The tobacco industry and anti-smoking organizations, each maneuvering in their own way to hinder vape, are not invited. Live Tiktok and YouTube: Wednesday, October1 at 6 p.m.
09/30/25 | VAPING POST
Thanks to the anti-smoking organizations that have renamed the tobacco industry the "nicotine industry", the latter is taking advantage of an unhoped-for confusion to "re-brand" its image with risk reduction while continuing to develop sales of cigarettes that kill. The demonization of nicotine, the No. 1 smoking cessation aid (TNS, vape...), only serves the interests of the tobacco industry.
Big Tobacco: a smoke-free future, but unchanged practices
09/25/25 | CDC / FDA
Épidémie de vapotage chez les jeunes ? Effet passerelle vers le tabac ? FAUX . En 10 ans, le tabagisme des jeunes a été divisé par 10, presque disparu (< 2 %), la consommation de nicotine a été divisée par 2, tous produits confondus. Données officielles USA, CDC / FDA. Le vapotage aide à arrêter de fumer et évite l’entrée dans le tabagisme.
25/09/25 | VAPING POST
Over the past 10 years, thousands of studies have been published on vaping. How can you make sense of them all? This comprehensive article helps you understand the different types of studies and their quality levels.
Understanding the different types of scientific studies on electronic cigarettes
09/18/25 | ETHRA
ETHRA's contribution to the EU cardiovascular health plan's call for evidence. This contribution focuses on the cardiovascular risks (CVD) associated with smoking and the potential positive role of nicotine-containing smokeless alternatives to smoking.
EU Cardiovascular Health Plan Call for Evidence
09/18/25 | VAPING POST
Unexpected!
He manages to host a website on... a puff
09/18/25 | VAPING POST
In its fight against smoking, Belgium is also tackling vaping, making no distinction between the poison that kills and the solution that helps.
Belgium: vaping and smoking soon to be banned on terraces
09/17/25 | LE FIGARO
Prohibition and repression of vaping in Singapore, on the population and visitors. Cigarettes are not affected by these measures, which deprive smokers of the most effective aid.
Up to €330 fine and seizure: don't vape in this country, even during stopovers
09/17/25 | VAPING POST
Taxing vaping means taxing smoking cessation.
France: the return of a tax on e-liquids in the 2026 Finance Bill?
09/16/25 | LES ÉCHOS
The Bayrou government's draft budget proposed a tax on e-liquids: 3 € cents/ml up to a rate of 15mg/ml and 5 cents above that. The lower amounts, compared with last year's plans, may indicate a growing awareness of the usefulness of vaping. However, creating a tax on the No. 1 aid to quitting smoking is incoherent in a country where over 30% of the population smokes, especially the most vulnerable. FIVAPE is working hard to combat these plans, with a number of meetings. Support us. Join us.
Taxes, savings: these surprise measures left by Bayrou to Lecornu in the 2026 budget
16/09/25 | VAPING POST
The psychology behind disposable vape users. Reminder: (real) cigarettes are disposable...
09/16/25 | WHAT'S UP DOC
Vape is more effective than nicotine substitutes among the most disadvantaged, who are the populations most affected by smoking and its harmful effects. The article is reserved for subscribers to this medical journal. FIVAPE recently published an article on this Australian study on its website.
E-cigarettes versus nicotine substitutes: vape is the winner among disadvantaged populations
09/16/25 | LE FIGARO
Poorly prepared, without sufficient consultation with vape professionals, the puff ban is a double failure: the product hasn't disappeared, and the black market is growing, along with illegal sales outside specialist networks. With no more quality control/regulation, consumer safety is in question.
09/14/25 | THE CONVERSATION
A very interesting article for vape professionals, the N°1 players in the fight against smoking.
Alcohol and tobacco: escapes from the constraints of the workplace?
09/13/25 | RMC BFM
Prevention policies, competition and the use of vaping to quit smoking (despite bans), youth smoking hasn't increased, it hasn't stagnated, it hasn't fallen... it's collapsed, divided by 5 in 10 years. Replay report [1'30]
"Not attractive, not stylish...": these reasons why French teenagers smoke less and less
09/13/25 | OFDT
OFDT publication - ESPAD survey. "In ten years, the proportion of 16-year-old adolescents smoking cigarettes every day has been divided by five, falling from around 16% in 2015 to 3.1% in 2024." Over this 10-year period, which corresponds to the rise of vaping, further proof that youth smoking has collapsed. The 'gateway effect' is a dystopia that is blighting the perception of vaping, to the detriment of 15 million smokers, most of them adults.
Drug use in Europe at age 16 - ESPAD 2024 results
11/09/25 | VAPING POST
Flavor legislation in the Netherlands. Vapor must only taste like tobacco (to stop smoking...), even if it means using toxic and carcinogenic molecules.
Ultra-restriction of aromas in the Netherlands: an example not to be followed
08/09/25 | RMC BFM
" When you're a smoker, the electronic cigarette is a smokeless nicotine supply, so it's a very useful tool that acts as a nicotine replacement and can therefore help the smoker ". Dr Alice Deschenau, President of the Société Francophone de Tabacologie (SFT), a learned society representing doctors in the field. A very interesting interview on the usefulness of nicotine in helping people to stop smoking. Replay [7 min]
"I used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day": is back-to-school the right time to quit smoking?
04/09/25 | RADIO 1
Prohibition of smoking in Tahiti. Continued. Professionals to appeal to the Conseil d'Etat.
Vape professionals "take the fight to the Conseil d'Etat
04/09/25 | VAPING POST
WHO: where does the money for tobacco control go?
8.6 million for 17 employees: the high salaries of WHO's tobacco control secretariat
03/09/25 | CITY NEWS
Cigarette taxes (up to €30 a pack), virtual prohibition of vaping (prescription only), Australia's anti-smoking policy is no longer an example: black market, crime, murder... And the youth smoking rate has tripled in the last 3 years. Opinion of an economics professor who compares the success of New Zealand's neighbors.
Seriously, it's time to sort out cigarettes and vapes
03/09/25 | RADIO 1
Prohibition of vape in Tahiti, professionals denounce a counter-productive measure in the fight against smoking and hypocrisy: "It's not really a question of health, it's really a question of money," says the entrepreneur. When we hear that tobacco brings in 6 billion to the country's coffers and that vape barely brings in 60 million, and we ban a product that is 95% less harmful than tobacco, that's a bit hypocritical with the Polynesian people." An appeal to the Council of State is already being considered.
Steam ban: professionals fulminate
09/02/25 | LE MONDE
Prohibition of vaping in French Polynesia makes headlines (AFP). Incomprehensible decision to remove access to the No. 1 smoking cessation aid, at a time when Tahiti has a record smoking rate. Cigarettes remain on sale, but smoking is prohibited in public places.
French Polynesia votes to ban e-cigarettes "outright" from 2026