The ETHRA Nicotine Customers Survey Outcomes

I appear to make use of the phrase anti-vaping loads and now in keeping with the outcomes from the ETHRA EU Nicotine Customers Survey you’ll be able to add the European Union to the rising checklist of the dangerously ignorant.

In reality it’s not simply vaping and e-cigarettes the EU is anti over both, with SNUS and nicotine pouches on its hit checklist, ETHRA says the outcomes of the survey reveals the EU is anti hurt discount placing the lives of thousands and thousands in danger.

Amongst different worrying findings, the survey discovered that ought to the EU ban flavoured e-liquids or usher in a complete vape ban – 28% of vapers would return to smoking while 71% would think about shopping for vape juice and kits from the black market…and we all know how that might finish.

37,000 individuals took half within the survey and the outcomes are clear – 27,000 people who smoke say they had been capable of stub out lit tobacco for good due to vaping and SNUS.

ETHRA says the numbers don’t lie including:

…83.5% of vapers, and 73.7% of snus customers had efficiently stopped smoking.

That’s an unimaginable set of figures, but nonetheless the EU is severely contemplating if not a complete vape ban, penalizing vapers and people trying to stop by over taxing e-cigarettes and SNUS.

ETHRA says:

The outcomes of our survey present that if the European Union had been to impose total inhabitants restrictions just like these skilled in repressive international locations when it comes to taxation and/or flavour bans, it’s seemingly {that a} very massive proportion of shoppers would search various sources to the authorized market.

As I stated, ban vaping and the black market beckons…

ETHRA Nicotine Customers Survey – Too Many Limitations

European people who smoke say the dearth of availability and clear data on vaping and SNUS is one other barrier to profitable stop makes an attempt.

31% of people who smoke say if the EU broad ban on SNUS was lifted, they’d think about using it.

Because it stands now Sweden is the one EU nation the place SNUS is authorized and it has an virtually smokefree populace.

It’s the excessive value of vape gear and e-liquids that’s additionally stopping people who smoke making the swap – therefore the decision to cease the overly excessive taxation.

ETHRA says:

…smoking stays the predominant approach of consuming nicotine in Europe.

Greater than 67% of the present people who smoke who responded to our survey need to stop, however, as our report reveals, they face obstacles of their want to be smoke-free.

The shortage of availability of low-risk nicotine merchandise presents a significant impediment to shoppers wishing to stop smoking.

The EU ban on the sale of snus (aside from in Sweden), illustrates this barrier, with 31% of present people who smoke indicating that they’d be concerned with making an attempt snus if its sale was legalised within the EU.

1 / 4 (24.3%) of those that smoke however who need to stop cited the excessive value of safer alternate options as a barrier to quitting smoking.

This quantity rises to 44.7% in international locations with a excessive tax on vaping merchandise (Estonia, Finland and Portugal).

It’s actually fairly easy, decrease the tax on vape merchandise and extra people who smoke will stop…it’s not rocket science is it?

And if the EU is as involved about deaths and sicknesses from smoking, because it says it’s – it might do exactly that…

Solutions within the feedback as to why this idea is simply too troublesome from them to understand…

Take away 10ml Bottles and Elevate the Nicotine Ranges

One other key discovering from the ETHRA Nicotine Customers Survey is the necessity to increase the present TPD nicotine restrict of 20mg.

On the again of that, vapers say they’d use much less e-liquid, people who smoke say they’d be extra more likely to stop and it might assist twin customers stop lit tobacco sooner.

And naturally, scrapping the ridiculous 10ml bottle rule would save on all that plastic waste most of us are sick of.

ETHRA says:

24.1% of vapers declared that they’d devour much less e-liquid if the EU elevated the nicotine focus restrict.

59.6% declare that it might not change something for them.

Amongst twin customers (individuals who vape and smoke), 30.3% assume they might stop smoking fully if the nicotine restrict was raised within the EU – A current examine, printed within the Lancet, helps this concept.

One factor that’s all the time niggled me about shortfills is IF the EU had been eager to cut back the quantity of ‘dangerous‘ [lol] nicotine sloshing about, it shot itself in the foot as there’s extra of it about than ever!

Anyway…undecided the e-liquid producers could be comfortable seeing much less gross sales if vapers had been to drag again on the volumes they had been shopping for.

I’m truly fairly simple on the 20mg ceiling – hey come for me lol.

The reality is the ETHRA Nicotine Customers Survey suggests the identical with MORE vapers utilizing LOWER nicotine ranges.

ETHRA says:

Extra consumption of e-liquid mechanically will increase the share of the residual low-risks associated to vaping for shoppers.

The ten ml quantity restrict within the TPD has no well being justification. Moreover, small bottles are extra simply dealt with and enhance the chance of unintentional ingestion by babies.

We strongly suggest abolishing the amount restrict on nicotine e-liquids to permit a return to decrease e-liquid consumption.

As for shortfills, there was a rumbling for fairly a while in some quarters that they need to be banned – ETHRA itself reveals that vapers can save as much as 50% price by shopping for 50ml shortfills and including a nic shot.

Nonetheless, the outcomes of this survey appears to recommend scrapping the 10ml bottle rule would imply much less vapers shopping for these zero nic shortfills…excellent news for the e-liquid producers…

Last Ideas

It’s positively making an attempt occasions for vaping within the EU and even right here within the UK.

Because the EU considers the newest revision of the Tobacco Excise Directive [TED] – in different phrases elevating the tax on vaping, the solutions given on this survey ought to give them meals for thought.

Nonetheless, regardless of announcing itself as ‘listening to the people‘ time and time again they’ve confirmed they actually don’t and ETHRA makes that very clear:

For a number of years, shoppers of safer nicotine merchandise have patiently and civically participated in public consultations from European our bodies.

Their views have sadly been handled primarily with condescension.

The big participation within the ETHRA survey seems to be an pressing demand from the involved public to be listened to by the European authorities.

With the EU sucking as much as the anti-vaping World Well being Group it’s the voice of well being professionals, vapers and hurt discount advocacy teams that should be heard.

If not, the faceless un-elected mandarins are heading in the right direction to play a hand within the deaths of thousands and thousands if not billions of people who smoke.

As to if the EU will pay attention, I doubt it…however that shouldn’t cease us all from pushing the hurt discount message far and broad.

Learn extra: THE EU NICOTINE USERS SURVEY 2020 The EU residents report