A survey published today by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) in cooperation with YouGov shows that a large number of smokers are not aware of the harm reduction facts about e-cigarettes. The result: Four in ten smokers wrongly believe that vaping is as or more harmful as smoking. ASH [...]

IEVA would like to express its concerns regarding the Dutch ministerial decree Amending the Tobacco and Smoking Products Order, presented by the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports. According to the statement of grounds submitted by the Ministry, the decree intends to “extend existing tobacco product rules to heated [...]

700,000 people in the EU die each year as a result of smoking and every second smoker dies 14 years prematurely. [1] Switching to vaping has helped millions of smokers worldwide to significantly reduce the harm to their health. The principle of harm reduction works, and millions more smokers could [...]

In 1963, the American Herbert A. Gilbert applied for a patent that is considered the forerunner of the electronic cigarette. It took 40 years for the Chinese pharmacist Hon-Lik to further develop this patent in 2003 and enable the production of the first marketable e-cigarette. So next year would be [...]

The European e-cigarette association Independent European Vape Alliance (IEVA) recently decided to update its Code for Responsible Marketing in order to demonstrate the responsibility of the industry when it comes to youth protection. The "E-Cigarette Professional Committee of China Electronics Chamber of Commerce (ECCC)" now also has signed this code. [...]

IEVA would like to express its concerns regarding the Draft Amendment of the Tobacco and Smoking Products Order for regulation of e-cigarette flavours, presented by the Dutch Ministry of Public health, Welfare and Sports. According to the statement of grounds submitted by the Dutch authorities, the draft amendment intends to [...]

Umberto Roccatti, vice-chairman of IEVA and president of the Italian vaping association ANAFE, will cycle from Italy to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, for the third edition of the Ride 4 Vape cycling event. Umberto has departed today from Turin and will ride through the Italian, French and Swiss Alps [...]

The Spanish Government has recently launched a draft bill that threatens to end the independent vaping sector in Spain and give the entire electronic cigarette business to big tobacco companies. Against all principles of EU law (proportionality, good regulation, good administration, fair competition and harmonisation), the Spanish Government has proposed [...]

The European Commission has published a call for evidence on the evaluation of the legislative framework for tobacco control. To this end, the Commission launched a first round of feedback from May 20th to June 17th. Almost 25,000 organisations, experts and EU citizens took part. IEVA also gave comprehensive feedback. [...]

IEVA would like to express its concerns regarding the Draft Act on Tobacco-free Nicotine-containing Products and the Draft Act amending the Act (2018:2088) on Tobacco and Similar Products, both notified by the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Commission on the 17th of March 2022, under the references 2022/158/S and [...]