2023-11-15 08:49:30
Increasingly popular with young people and promoted by tobacco manufacturers, products can create early dependence and open a door to cigarette consumption.
A phenomenon which worries more and more. In a survey published Tuesday, the Alliance Against Tobacco warns of new consumption by young people aged 13 to 16 of “new nicotine and tobacco products.” Particularly targeted by this work, nicotine sachets and pearls, increasingly put forward by manufacturers in the sector, but also snus, a variant of sachets which contains tobacco, prohibited for sale in France but easily accessible in line.
Invited on the BFMTV set this Wednesday, Alice Denoize, tobacco specialist and writer and founder of the blog Le Declic anti clope, also warns about these over-the-counter products, in particular sachets, in tobacco shops. “The problem is that these products come from the tobacco industry, which is not really known for its transparency,” she begins. According to her, the very composition of these products poses a problem.
“We don’t know what’s in it, but we know that there is between 3 and 20 mg of nicotine while a cigarette is between 1 and 3 mg. When we give that to a brain of adolescent, which is not finished, it has an effect on the addictive level of the effect of a bomb.
As the president of the Anti-Tobacco Alliance Loïc Josseran explained to BFMTV.com on Tuesday, this addiction from a very young age is “a gateway to traditional cigarettes, it’s a passage.”
In addition to the dependence it triggers, the Ministry of Health points out other possible disorders linked to these products: oral and pancreatic cancers, damage to the mucous membranes in the mouth, irreversible retraction of the gums or even palpitations and vomiting.
No desensitization logic
Another argument dismantled by Alice Denoize, the hypothesis that these new products could be an aid for smokers who wish to quit cigarettes. “This is the big argument, that there is no smoke, no carbon monoxide,” she points out.
“Frankly I don’t think” that it’s effective, she says, arguing that if the brain is flooded with nicotine, “it will excite the neurotransmitters that feel good, it will not be in a desensitization logic, He’s going to ask for more.”
Finally, the tobacco specialist also refutes the theory according to which nicotine is an ally for athletes because of the excitement it can produce before physical effort. “I knew an athlete who used it, it was so addictive that she had to use nicotine patches to get rid of it,” she says.
Like what Loïc Josseran requested from BFMTV.com, and as also desired by the Confederation of tobacconists, Alice Denoize ensures that it is necessary to legislate quickly in order to prohibit the sale of these products to minors. in the same way that tobacco is banned.” “We would like it to go a little faster,” she says.
Still with the idea of protecting minors from tobacco and its harmful effects, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced, last September, her desire to ban “puffs”, disposable electronic cigarettes, as part of a ” new national plan to combat smoking.
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