looking for experts and smokers, have high hopes in E-cigarettes. The electronic Fags will be partly delivered free of charge to facilitate smokers the withdrawal from their Addiction.
So the addiction help East riding, in the Canton of attempt to Solothurn with a pilot just before Christmas, broke new ground In the regions of Olten Gösgen Gäu, Thal, Dorneck and Thierstein during 18 months of smokers and non-smokers, free of charge E-cigarettes available, if you want to get off the tobacco addiction.
condition is that you can consultants will guide and support and Smoking cigarettes in favour of the less harmful electronic replacement product to give up. The liquid to be evaporated have to pay for all that participate.
Evaporation better than to burn
The Change makes it easier for them but, in the Evaporation devices be easily made. The “alternative” Smoking also provides a relief for the purse, such as the addiction support East, which works closely with the municipalities, announced. The cost for the consumption of E-cigarettes are four to eight Times lower than when traditional cigarettes can be bought at the Kiosk.
With the pilot project, seeks the help of Ost lies on the line of Addiction professionals. The Federation of the Addiction professionals had already claimed over a year ago for a change of course in the Swiss tobacco policy. E-cigarettes should therefore be regarded as an effective Instrument of the damage reduction, since evaporation was better than burn.
Over the long-term consequences of the use of E-cigarettes, nothing is known. According to studies by the Tobacco industry to be 95% less harmful than traditional cigarettes. This could have a positive economic impact and save lives: Currently 9500 people die in Switzerland every year due to their tobacco use.
Federal administrative court shall be sold, turning a
Since last spring in Switzerland may well also nicotine-containing e-Liquids for E-cigarettes. The Federal administrative court had overturned a complaint by a manufacturer of the ban by the Federal food and veterinary office (fsvo).
Whether it’s cigarette comes to a Boom in the E -, is uncertain. According to the addiction monitoring 2016 – more recent Figures do not exist – have 15 per cent of the population at least once an E-cigarette tried. Three years earlier, there were only 6.7 percent.
The regular use, i.e. at least once per week, with 0.7 percent of the population, however, still very low, even if it increased. Daily 0.4 percent used E-cigarettes. For comparison: in 2017, smoked in Switzerland, yet 27.1 per cent of the population older than 15 years.
More E-cigarette less smokers
After all, the future is expected to be a positive development. Thus, according to the Embassy of the tobacco product act the end of November, the published regulatory impact assessment the number of smokers in the longer term to 2060, a 2.1 percent decrease.
This would reduce the proportion of smokers in the population by 0.5 percentage points, from 25.0 to 24.5 percent. This Benefit is mainly attributed to the legalization of nicotine-containing E-cigarettes.
Juul, the market in Switzerland is growing new on the market
That also shows the market launch of the E-cigarette Juul in the beginning of December. In contrast to the US, where Juul-products have a nicotine content of up to 59 milligrams per Milliliter, was limited to the level of nicotine in the EU and also in Switzerland to 20 milligrams per Milliliter of Liquid.
Video: Hype Juul introduction to the market of Juul: What passers-by think of the E-cigarette? (Video: Web video Team TA)
the launch of The nicotine vaporiser had been observed by the health authorities is very critical. In the United States Juuling “namely, a rule had triggered a” Boom among Minors.
The manufacturers stressed that the youth are not a target group. Target group of the adults. On the protection of minors, industry representatives had agreed previously on the round table. They had by 1. October a Codex in force, in which the signatories pledged not to E-vapor devices, and not to be evaporated liquids (e-Liquids) to people under the age of 18 years.
for the E-cigarettes competent Federal office for food safety and veterinary office (fsvo), on the Initiative of the round table came into being, sees in the agreement a positive development and is very pleased with how BLV spokesman Stefan Kunfermann on request said. The agreement was to come mainly due to the inclusion of the affected companies. (Dec/sda)
Created: 04.01.2019, 09:56 PM
