Alexis de la Fléchère, edited by Alexandre Dalifard / Photo credit: JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE / BELGA MAG / BELGA VIA AFP
As part of its anti-smoking plan, the government wants to ban “puffs”, these small disposable electronic cigarettes. The law aimed at banning them should be discussed in the coming weeks in the National Assembly. In the meantime, the Anti-Tobacco Alliance is now concerned about the rise of nicotine pearls.
An equally harmful novelty? While the proposed law aimed at banning puffs, flavored disposable electronic cigarettes, should be discussed in the coming weeks in the National Assembly, the Alliance Against Tobacco is today concerned about the rise of a new addictive trap: nicotine pearls. One in ten young people have already tested this new product.
A known and dangerous technique
One in ten young people is the figure put forward by the Alliance Against Tobacco. And this product is sold in two forms: beads, like a kind of candy, placed under the tongue, or in the form of nicotine powder, sold in sachets and placed at the gum level. In this product there is no tobacco inside, only nicotine absorbed through the mucous membrane of the mouth. And here too, for the recreational side, manufacturers offer different flavors (fresh mint, red fruits, etc.). The technique is known and dangerous, according to Professor Loïc Josserand, president of the Alliance Against Tobacco.
“Once we have entered recreationally into this addiction to nicotine, behind, the exit route most observed in international work, remains cigarettes. We are not in a pharmacological mode of distribution of nicotine , in the same way as nicotine substitutes are”, alerts the specialist at the microphone of Europe 1. For him, “governments must therefore have a form of political courage which allows them to fight effectively against these industrialists who have not only one objective: to take control of our children through the dependence they instill in them. These new products arrived in France this summer and the price varies from 5 to 11 euros depending on the brand.