Question 15345 — health

Summary

Mr. Paul Christophe draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the usefulness of vaping in the fight against smoking. The conclusions set out in the Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin (BEH) No. 14-15, published by Public Health France on May 29, 2018, indicate that, among smokers who attempted to quit in the last quarter of 2016 and who used an aid, 56% of them opted for cigarettes. electronic, i.e. twice as much as nicotine substitutes which nevertheless have the status of medicine. Furthermore, the opinion of February 24, 2016 issued by the High Council of Public Health recognizes the practice of vaping “as an aid to stopping or reducing smokers’ tobacco consumption”. Despite this concrete evidence of the role of electronic cigarettes in reducing smoking prevalence, vaping has not been integrated by public authorities in the tobacco control strategy. However, the Government has made it a priority, with the smoking prevalence rate in France still among the highest in Europe: 36% in 2017 according to the European Commission, just behind Greece and on par with Bulgaria. The absence of concrete support from the State for the electronic cigarette therefore appears paradoxical, as it has not been the subject of clear and encouraging information for the 15 million smokers, and which was also not integrated into the national tobacco control program presented in July of this year. Also, he asks him to clarify his position on the place of electronic cigarettes in a risk reduction strategy and, more broadly, on its potential integration into the national tobacco reduction program.

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