Considered a victory for tobacco control, the plain tobacco packaging debuted in France, Friday, May 20. The appearance of these uniformly olive green packets without logo, with health warnings covering two-thirds of the package, will be only gradual.
From Friday, the industry should not produce packages with logo for the french market, and shipments to sales outlets will cease on 20 November. Existing stocks must be passed before the end of the year. Until 1 st in January 2017, the two packet types will be able to coexist.
This project’s key measure of health Marisol Touraine law, adopted on 26 January, n ‘a little model. Only Australia has established in 2012. England has also decided to apply Friday, May 20. Ireland should follow
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This scenario is not the taste of cigarette manufacturers and tobacco shops. The Confederation of tobacconists announced Thursday 19 May, Wednesday have filed an appeal against the decree and order of application of neutral package, before the Council of State. It “request a postponement of the action until all European countries will not have set up” . Japan Tobacco International and Seita, the French subsidiary of the British tobacco company Imperial Tobacco, said they had also filed an appeal with the Council of State.
So far, the industrial failed attempts. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has validated May 4th European Directive to strengthen the fight against smoking. Following him, the High Court of British justice dismissed Thursday, Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco who opposed the British legislation on the introduction of neutral package, claiming a breach of intellectual property.
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in France, the ordinance implementing the EU directive was presented Wednesday by the Cabinet, and is effective on Friday. The text provides for stricter rules on tobacco and its derivatives. Cigarettes and rolling tobacco, which contain flavorings designed to attract young people, should be prohibited, as is the direct or indirect advertising. Some countries – such as France – go further, prohibiting all forms of advertising, including electronic cigarettes, including shop windows. What worries dealers and manufacturers.
The Association for electronic cigarette users (Aiduce) disputes that the electronic cigarette is treated as a tobacco product. “It does not poison people,” , ensures Claude Bamberger, his vice president. Or tobacco product or drug, the electronic cigarette is a consumer product.
The Directive establishes rules on packaging, packaging, banned certain additives limit to 20 milligrams per milliliter content nicotine into the charging liquid, and 2 milliliters for the cartridges. Beyond this threshold of 20 mg / ml, the product is considered as a medicament. “These technical restrictions imposed by those rules only serve to protect inefficient products of tobacco industry subsidiaries” , disputes the Aiduce. Remedies are already envisaged by electronic cigarette users (or “vapoteurs”), through the voice of Aiduce.
“Putting on a basis of equality of poison and antidote “
Fivape interprofessional Federation of vape, also denounced the entry into force and the rules of application in France of the European directive for all measures relating to products vapotage. Indeed, she recalls, “while the consensus in favor of e-cigarette instead over the months as an effective tool in reducing the risks of smoking and the fight against tobacco the assimilation of the vape to conventional tobacco products, among other measures relating to advertising and propaganda, reports to the grotesque, by setting an equal footing poison and antidote “
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Fivape believes that these measures could slow the 3 million vapoteurs in France. Eight associations fight against smoking had recalled early May that “The electronic cigarette is a massive reduction in weapon deadly risks of smoking” . The very serious Royal College of British Medicine concluded in a report published in late April that the electronic cigarette is “essential and effective” in a tobacco reduction policy.
on dangerousness, “although it is not possible to accurately estimate the long-term health risks associated with e-cigarette, the available data suggest that they should not exceed 5% those associated with smoking, and could be significantly lower than that figure “, the report added.
As for Marisol Touraine, she had said on 3 May, on the airwaves of Europe 1: “It is better not to smoke. But better electronic cigarette that any short cigarette. “ Thursday, it also announced on LCI that it did not exclude a rise in tobacco prices. Bad student, France has 34% of smokers, and smoking kills 78,000 people each year.
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