French Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau announced on Tuesday that France will ban the sale of single-use e-cigarettes by 2025 during a National Tobacco Control Program (PNLT) presentation while increasing tobacco taxation.
“We will ban single-use puffs […] which are an aberration both from a public health point of view and in terms of their environmental footprint,” said Aurélien Rousseau at the press conference.
A cross-party bill put forward by ecologist MP Francesca Pasquini “aiming at banning single-use vaping devices” is currently being examined by the French National Assembly. For Pasquini, this is a matter of emergency “when we know that young people discover nicotine with puffs,” according to EURACTIVE.
If the law is adopted by the National Assembly and then by the Senate, France will have to present its bill to the European Commission, which will have six non-compressible months to make a decision.
Germany, Belgium, and Ireland are working on similar legislation to ban single-use e-cigarettes.