Retrospective de 2024 – Vaping Post

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Electronic cigarette news in 2024

• January : while the French Observatory on Drugs and Addictive Tendencies (OFDT) published a report highlighting the sharp reduction in smoking among college students in France, a study with numerous methodological shortcomings concluded that vaping increased heart risks .
• FEBRUARY : two former WHO leaders criticized the organization’s position on electronic cigarettes while a new Swiss study confirmed its effectiveness as a smoking cessation tool.
• Mars : while British research highlighted the increase in misinformation about personal vaporizers, Belgium voted to ban puffs and a new study whose data had been described as “crude” showed alarmism about the effects of vaping .
• Avril : once is not customary, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a new page favorable to vaping while in France, the late SOVAPE association was heard in the Senate in order to defend electronic cigarettes.
• May : the WHO published a report showing that vaping now surpasses smoking among young people, while in France, the FIVAPE launched its guide to good practices for online sales and the CNCT called for a ban on nicotine sachets.
• June : the publication of Eurobarometer 2024 showed that the smoking prevalence rate was stagnating in Europe and that only 5% of non-smokers thought electronic cigarettes were “attractive”.
• July : a new study called into question the number of minors who vape, considering it largely overestimated, while in France, Jean Moiroud, president of Fivape, thanked vapers for their support as part of the Merci la Vape operation.
• August : as part of a vast communication operation, the DNF association joined forces with YouTuber Nozman to attack puff, while a new study confirmed the absence of a bridging effect between vaping and smoking.
• September : the Blog and magazine Vapyou announced the end of its publications, while the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group also announced its closure, in a final publication placing the electronic cigarette on the podium of the best ways to stop smoking.
• October : SOVAPE announced it would end its activities while a project to tax vaping was announced in France.
• November : the French Ministry of Health reversed course after publishing a page in favor of vaping, Smart Vapes appeared in Europe, while in Sweden, the country became the first in the world to fall below the symbolic threshold of 5 % of smokers.
• December : 16 European countries demanded urgent taxation of vaping products, while in France, the vaping sector was worried about a legal decision during a trial between anti-tobacco associations and British American Tobacco. An alarmist publication about nicotine sachets also appeared.