The ban must now be ratified by the Senate and the National Assembly before its promulgation by the President of the Republic.
- Arriving on the French market in 2021, the Puff is increasingly widespread among middle and high school students.
- Its use is dangerous for health.
- The European Commission has just validated France’s intention to ban Puffs on its territory.
According to RMC mediathere European Commission today leaves France free to ban Puffs on its territory.
The law banning Puffs was passed in France by the Senate and the National Assembly, then by a joint committee on March 21, 2024. The legislative text thus stipulates that: “the manufacture, possession with a view to sale, distribution or free offer, the offering for sale, sale, distribution or free offer of electronic vaping devices which present at minus one of the following two characteristics: 1/ Be pre-filled with a liquid and cannot be refilled; 2/ Have a non-rechargeable battery.
Puffs: what are the health risks?
The arguments motivating this development are health-related. “The Puff wreaks havoc, particularly among the youngest. They have everything to please them: beautiful colorful packaging, a wide variety of original sweet and fruity flavors (frosted strawberry or marshmallow for example).” indicates in fact the French Federation of Cardiology. “This attraction of adolescents for Puff raises fears of a pediatric epidemic of nicotine addiction and a possible gateway effect to smoking among young non-smokers who initially discovered the substance through these disposable vaping devices. It is urgent to be concerned about its ban to slow down this runaway.”add the doctors.
Dr Loïc Josseran, doctor at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Paris and President of the Alliance Against Tobacco, specifies on this subject: “cIt is not so much the nicotine content that is dangerous, but the way in which we absorb it, because the puff is a product on which we will be able to draw very hard and very quickly. These young people will thus shoot up nicotine, which takes only one second to pass from the reservoir to the brain.
“Composed of nicotine salts, the use of Puff also increases the risks of developing inflammation of the respiratory tract and impacts the cognitive acquisitions of young people”, addAlliance against tobacco.
Puffs: 13% of young French people consume it
Arriving on the French market in 2021, Puff is increasingly widespread among middle and high school students: 2/3 of adolescents aged 13 to 16 have already heard of it and more than 1/3 claim to know precisely how to use it. what it is about. “Among the young people questioned, 13% of them have already used the Puff, i.e. the same proportion of young people having already smoked a traditional or electronic cigarette. deplores the Alliance Against Tobacco.
