They ask to prohibit total disposable vapers in Spain

The NGO Nofumadores.org demands al Government that prohibits in form “Absolute” The sale of Disposable vapeters in Spain and implement a plan to end The entire vapeo sector In the country.

“Yes Executive I did not take this step immediately, the sale should restrict exclusively and transient to the tob Total prohibition“, says the organization in its statement.

The president of NOFUMADORES.ORG, Raquel Fernándezwarn that vapeo hooks to the minors to the nicotineand remember that in 2024 and 2025 studies that point to that trend have multiplied. Also points out that countries such as Belgium, France or the United Kingdom They have already prohibited or want to prohibit disposable electronic cigarettes.

The association describes the DSLN, the nicotine release devices whose commercial name is vapeman, thus according to his note, the marketing term “evokes a false security of inhaling water vapor, have spread through social networks, the recess patio and a marketing aimed at preteens, becoming the largest gateway to tobacco for Spanish minors, which have their first contact around 12 years“

Nofumadores.org cites scientific evidence: a METAESTUDIO from the University of York and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, published in Tobacco Controlconcludes that the minors who vap are almost thrice more prone to smoking cigarettes than those who do not vapea. Also remembers a job of Marisa A. Bittoni (Ohio State University) About almost 7,000 cases who pointed out that consumers dual (cigarettes + vapers) present up to 40 times more chances of lung cancer in front of those who never smoked, and around 4 times more than exclusive smokers. They add that the exclusive vapeo is associated with a 129% more than COPDgreater cardiovascular risk and increased blood pressure.

Treasury slows tobacco and vapeo policies

Nofumadores.org values ​​that the draft of the new anti -tank law of the Ministry of Health It contemplates eliminating disposable vapers, expanding spaceless spaces and equating the regulation of electronic cigarettes. But the association launches a warning: fears the possible interference of Treasury.

They explain that the Treasury already stopped public measures before, such as the exclusion of neutral packaging in the Comprehensive smoking planand criticize the lack of transparency in contacts between Tax authorities and the tobacco industry. They denounce that the Ministry “No account with transparency mechanisms to guarantee compliance with the Article 5.3 of the Frame agreement for WHO tobacco control which forces governments to protect their public health policies from the interference of the tobacco industry and of his commercial interests“

The Association recalls the former Minister Cristóbal Montoro And he states that this relationship with the industry is not harmless. That is why he argues that “there are signs founded to think that the Treasury could Not being aligned with Health and that, consequently, it will try to prevent electronic cigarettes from selling exclusively in Waterholes or they will even look for some subterfuge To save the disposable voperators, putting the interests of the industry ahead of the public health“

Nofumadores.org accuses al Treasury to be “addicted” to tobacco income: in 2023 he raised 8,965 million euros between special taxes and VAT, according to official data. The association contrasts that figure with the sanitary cost: for each euro collected, the company spends Four euros in treating diseases derived from smoking, so, in his words, “he converts this fiscal agency into a Rosta Business for public health and for coffers of the State “.