France decides to hinder disposable electronic cigarettes, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on radio station RTL on Sunday. “It’s an essential public health problem,” said Borne, adding that the government is creating plans for a national programme to oppose tobacco use that she said was responsible for 75,000 deaths a year in France.
So-called “puff” devices create habits among young people that can result in tobacco habit, she added. Also, the government has no plan to give a rise to taxes on tobacco in the approaching year after a raise this year, the prime minister conveyed. French President Emmanuel Macron in 2021 brought ambitious plans to handle tobacco and alcohol, promising more smoking-free areas and having a goal to make all 20-year-olds tobacco-free by 2030.