Sound, public health-promoting regulations need to be in place globally to support safer, satisfying alternatives to cigarettes, before, if ever, taking any further steps to banning traditional cigarettes
On this World No Tobacco Day WHO calls on general public, policy-makers, civil society, academia and other partners to: Give tobacco users an extra reason to quit
In France, the National Committee against Smoking (CNCT), a member of the Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance (STPA), has already positioned itself in favour of banning filters and is calling on the public authorities to act in this direction.[4]
However, the report which cannot distinguish between cigarettes, nicotine patches and vapes also warned of a short-term increasing trend in nicotine consumption that's been emerging since 2022