{"id":430329,"date":"2025-06-20T11:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/20\/belgio-sigarette-elettroniche-bando-ue\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:35:20","slug":"belgium-urges-eu-wide-ban-on-e-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/belgium-urges-eu-wide-ban-on-e-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium urges EU-wide ban on e-cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Electronic cigarettes? No, thanks. Belgium is calling on EU member states to ban their sale across Europe<\/strong>, closing the single market to the industry and its products. Belgian Health Minister and Deputy Prime Minister\u00a0Frank Vandenbroucke<\/strong> arrived at the Luxembourg Health Council\u00a0determined and ready to fight.
\nThe agenda includes a\u00a0discussion of preventive measures<\/a>, which also affect the use, consumption, and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and tobacco products. This is where, for the Belgian government, action is needed without delay.<\/p>\n

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Belgian health minister Frank Vandenbroucke [Luxembourg, June 20, 2025]<\/p>\n

“The European Commission has defined an aggressive agenda against cancer.\u00a0We think it is important also to include e-cigarettes<\/strong> and vaping in this campaign,” Vanderbroucke said.\u00a0“What is currently happening is worrying: a vaping industry is making a new generation of young people addicted to nicotine<\/strong> by selling e-cigarettes with all kinds of flavorings. Apple, raspberry… They all seem healthy when, in fact, they are dangerous and make people addicted.” This is no coincidence, he explained\u00a0on his arrival at the Council: “This, after all, is the goal of the industry.” Consequently,\u00a0“this is the EU’s battle,” and, to this end, “we need an\u00a0EU-wide ban on flavored e-cigarettes,<\/strong>‘ he added.<\/p>\n

The Belgian proposal is part of the European Commission’s new clampdown on the tobacco industry. Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra announced the intention to increase taxes on new tobacco products to discourage and disincentivize the purchase and consumption of products that are potentially harmful to the health of EU citizens in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minister Frank Vandenbroucke: ‘No flavored products, this is a European fight.’ He accuses the industry: ‘They want a new generation of addicts’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":430324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30961],"tags":[29840,29433,31549,31548,27070],"class_list":["post-430329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salute-en","tag-electronic-cigarettes","tag-fight-cancer-en","tag-frank-vandenbroucke-en","tag-council-health-en","tag-prevention-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430380,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430329\/revisions\/430380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}