“The Netherlands is on the brink of introducing plain packaging for e-cigarettes. The Dutch government also plans to ban (non-tobacco) e-cigarette flavours. he obvious problem here is that e-cigarettes and non-combustible tobacco products are not ‘smoking materials’. They are substitutes for smoking materials which help people stop smoking. We now have a huge amount of evidence showing that nudging people away from e-cigarettes leads to more cigarette sales. We know that raising the price of vaping products leads to greater sales of cigarettes. We know that taxing e-cigarettes leads to increased rates of youth smoking. And we know that e-cig flavour bans lead to increased cigarette sales, as we have seen in San Francisco and more recently in the whole USA.”
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NETHERLAND’S CRACKDOWN ON E-CIGARETTES
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