Today, we are calling on our supporters, consumers of reduced risk nicotine products, and others who understand the benefits of harm reduction
to act on significant threats planned by the World Health Organization (WHO) later this year.
These include:
- A ban on all open system vaping products
- A ban of all flavours except tobacco
- A ban on nicotine salts in vaping products
- Regulating products so that they are all exactly the same and restrict delivery of nicotine
- Demanding that countries around the world treat vaping and heated tobacco products the same as combustible tobacco
- Taxation at the same rate as cigarettes, banning use where smoking is prohibited, large graphic health warnings, plain packaging, and a ban on all advertising, promotion and sponsorship
We have listed the threats in more detail
in this file along with accompanying quotations from WHO documents which will be the basis for discussion at a global conference to be held in November. We have also produced a
playlist of animations explaining the threats.
Although that seems a long way off, we must
ACT NOW to get our voices heard. Plans for the meeting are already in progress and by the time the agenda is published in September it will be too late.
