Question 13814 — health

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Mr. Frédéric Barbier questions the Minister of Solidarity and Health on the consequences of vaping for health. It is recognized that tobacco kills 78,000 people in France each year and that it is the leading cause of avoidable mortality in the world. Since 2003, more and more people have turned to electronic cigarettes. Its market is booming, with three million vapers, who use it in 2,500 stores specialists, 200 e-shops and 15,000 tobacconists. If the increase in the market is undeniable, the effect of the product is more subject to discussion. While the Interprofessional Vaping Federation (FIVAPE) considers the e-cig as “an innovative and promising solution for reducing smoking risk”, others such as the National Committee against Smoking consider that “electronic cigarettes, like tobacco, contain nicotine which is the most powerful among legal and illicit drugs currently on the market. Also, if it is possible to identify the number of French people who start vaping, it is much more difficult to determine those who quit. Thus, according to the 2014 health barometer from Inpes, there are more than 3,000,000 users of electronic cigarettes in France, of whom 40.7% are former smokers and 48% are current smokers. daily. According to the Addiction magazine of June 2016: “Electronic cigarette use in the European Union: analysis of a representative sample of 27,460 Europeans from 28 countries”, 35.1% of active e-cig users stopped smoking and 32.2% reduced their tobacco consumption. In France, the High Council of Public Health, in an opinion dated February 24, 2016, affirms that the electronic cigarette “can be considered as an aid to stop or reduce smokers' tobacco consumption", but no serious study enabling these data to be affirmed or refuted is available. He therefore asks how many French people quit vaping each year in order to measure its impact and be able to strengthen public health.

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