вЂњOr should it gradually be removed from our society?вЂќ(5) E-cigs are likely the play a major role in the answers to these questions.

вЂњShould the nicotine market be left totally open, assuming that it is a useful product or a source of pleasure for some people?вЂќ the Dautzenberg Report asks. This boils down to a matter of how nicotine is absorbed. It is essential to know whether e-cigs should be regarded as a product that comes under anti-smoking laws. The heart of the problem lies in the fight against the effects of tobacco. This unexpected decline is partly due to e-cigs,(1) a result of technological progress in battery miniaturisation.(2) Goldman Sachs lists e-cigs among this centuryвЂ™s eight disruptive technologies,(3) and they are evolving continuously.(4) But tobacco sales in France are falling, especially among young people. For years now, traditional smoking cessation methods (such as the patch) have barely caused this figure to budge. Tobacco is a key factor in the premature deaths of 73,000 people a year in France. Together with other substitutes, such as heatable tobacco products, they now offer credible alternatives to tobacco. Electronic cigarettes - or вЂњe-cigsвЂќ - first appeared in 2007 and have seen growing success in France and worldwide. Long denigrated and accused of every imaginable evil, the tobacco market is undergoing a renaissance with innovations that can change consumersвЂ™ habits - and health. Media release: Smoking or vaping: the revolution in tobacco and nicotine consumption Economic Note prepared by FrГ©dГ©ric Sautet, associate researcher at the Institut Г©conomique Molinari.

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