On 29 April, the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) published its Final Opinion on e-cigarettes. The Preliminary Opinion, published in September 2020, had attracted significant criticism and 691 submissions to the public consultation. We hoped that the SCHEER committee had listened, and that the final Opinion would take our submissions into account, but we find ourselves greatly disappointed!
ETHRA’s monthly round up of news. The main event is the publication of the long awaited SCHEER Final Opinion. A close second is the urgent need for consumers to respond to the tax consultation, which is still open. Read on for more about those and other news too.
The next phase of the review of the Tobacco Taxation Directive has started. A public consultation is now open, ending on 22 June. The Roadmap consultation earlier this year only received 134 submissions. It is really important for consumers to give their views now.
Tobacco harm reduction news from Europe
The tax directive consultation is out - time for you to give your views on taxation for safer alternatives to smoking. The Swedish government is proposing a flavour ban for e-liquids. Germany is advancing with their tax plans, which will make vaping more expensive than smoking. Customs seizures of smuggled snus reached a record high in Finland. Read on for more on that and lots of other news.
- Eurobarometer: Attitudes of Europeans towards tobacco and electronic cigarettes
- ETHRA February news roundup
- Europe's Beating Cancer plan fails smokers
- ETHRA January news roundup
- Urgent Call to Action for Flavour ban
- Seasons Greetings, calls to action, news round up and 2021
- Special Committee on Beating Cancer hearing on prevention
- Spain SOS
- Anti vaping MEP Michèle Rivasi heads “informal” TPD working group
- ETHRA launches major survey on nicotine use in Europe
- Have a heart
- Happy Birthday ETHRA!
- 75% of French people do not know that vaping is less harmful than smoking
- Neutral packaging for safer nicotine products will cause more smoking
- Europe's Beating Cancer Plan Town Hall
- Anti-THR measures in Denmark - our letter
- Proposed flavour ban in the Netherlands - letter
- Smoking and pregnancy: should we really discourage vaping, at the risk of smoking?
- The Belgian government is making a huge mistake by considering e-cigarettes to be as harmful as conventional cigarettes
- Germany must use its EU Presidency to act wisely on e-cigarettes