EU proposes ban on flavored heated tobacco products
18:46 JST, July 6, 2022
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Commission proposed on June 29 to ban the sale in the EU of flavored heated tobacco products after a big rise in their consumption.
“By removing flavored heated tobacco from the market we are taking yet another step toward realizing our vision under Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to create a ‘Tobacco Free Generation’ with less than 5% of the population using tobacco by 2040,” EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said in a statement.
The proposed ban would be in force if EU governments and EU lawmakers do not oppose it. Even if approved EU-wide, governments will have months to adapt their legislation to the possible change before it is effective on their territories.
The move comes after the Commission estimated a 10% rise in the sales volumes of heated tobacco products in half a dozen EU countries, helping heated tobacco products to exceed 2.5% of total sales of tobacco products in the EU, the EU executive said.
Heated tobacco is an alternative to smoking, which uses real tobacco. That is different from e-cigarettes, which contain no tobacco and use liquids.
Philip Morris International has the biggest share of the heated tobacco market, according to the University of Bath.
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