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Smoking in France

Survey results from 2024 show that 28.3% of respondents in France reported using Cigarettes.

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July 06, 2018 by vapingpost.com

Sign and Share Petition to Halt EU-Wide Vaping Tax

The New Nicotine Alliance (NNA), a UK registered charitable incorporated organisation “concerned with improving public health, through a greater understanding of “new” (risk-reduced) nicotine products and their uses” is supporting an initiative by French organization SOVAPE. Last January, the EU Commission delayed a decision on whether to impose the infamous proposed EU-wide tax on vaping products until 2019, as until now they did not gather enough data to justify the move.

May 29, 2018 by euronews.com

One million French smokers ditch habit in a year: survey

One million people in France quit daily smoking habits in the space of a year, according to a new survey by the country’s public health agency, which claims anti-smoking measures like neutral packaging are behind the decline.

In 2017, 26.9% of 18- to 75-year-olds smoked every day, compared to 29.4% a year earlier, according to the study by Public Health France, which described the results as “historic”.