Tag: Belgium
The Cost of Prohibition: Tobacco and Vape Crackdowns Are Fueling Black...
Public health policy is often guided by good intentions, but history has repeatedly shown that intentions are not enough to guarantee success. Overly harsh...
Will Belgium’s Smoking Cessation Strategy be Effective?
Belgium struggles with high smoking rates, with 24% of the population being current smokers, resulting in approximately 14,000 smoking-related deaths annually.Belgium's Health Minister, Frank...
Health Institute Says Belgian Vape Law is “Still Too Vague”
The local vape law “imposes restrictions only on the presence of nicotines in e-liquids. Other substances are not explicitly banned and therefore we still...
Nicotine Ecigs reduce craving for tobacco cigarettes not flavors, study finds
Smoking is a long-term learning process for the smoker's brain
The authors calculated that a typical 40 year-old smoker will have experienced 1–2 million trials during...
Pierre Bartsch: I fear the release of HNB products on the...
Vaping Post: What do you retain from the year 2016?
Pierre Bartsch: Belgium was in a tricky situation because nicotine has been forbidden in e-cigarettes until...
Frédérique Ries: “Belgian health authorities are going the wrong way” with...
“An outdated solution”
“The position of the Belgian Ministry of Health is incomprehensible."
The MEP Frédérique Ries denounces the position of Belgian authorities, in contradiction with the positive...
Belgium: A new Royal Decree to regulate Ecigs
The new Royal Decree has been published on November 17, 2016 in the official journal, Le Moniteur, and will come into force in two months,...
Belgium: The Global Tobacco & Nicotine Forum launched today
From September 27 to 29, the Hotel Metropole, located on the famous Place de Brouckère in the historic center of Brussels, will host the...
