Fever among adolescents, France prohibits the sale of disposable electronic cigarette

The disposable vape will leave the French tobacco shelves, but the clandestine sale should not disappear anytime soon. Teenagers who consume the product say they do not buy the “puff” in street commerce because it costs more expensive. Prices per unit range from $ 48 to $ 120, depending on the model. Students prefer to fuel online or with suppliers on social networks for a more affordable price. The problem is that in this relationship, adolescents are already presented to other products, such as smuggled cigarettes and marijuana.

The National Committee Against Smoking (CNTC), an independent association, believes that manufacturers will circumvent the newly approved law and adapt vapes with aroma for a limited number of battery recharge, to continue attracting young people to consumption, once rechargeable devices remain authorized. This industry lives on dependence.

On average, 200 people die a day in France for diseases resulting from smoking.

Public and Environmental Health Problem

During debates at the Assembly and Senate, parliamentarians discussed studies showing that the high concentration of nicotine salts, and other toxic substances found in the liquid formulas of vapes, such as mercury, cause increased blood pressure and blood changes, With risk of infarction and stroke, infections and lung lesions, and long -term cancer. It is a harmful, addictive product that after a certain consumer time requires medical help to stop.

In addition to the issue of public health, there is the environmental aspect, with the thousands of lithium -based batteries that equate these unique devices and end up discarded on the streets and nature, causing environmental pollution. Ecologist parliamentarians were in the initiative of the bill.