Without you, vaping will die ... in 2022.

It is difficult to be a vaper in 2021.

Between the sensationalist articles of a press more eager to peddle a priori than scientific truths, the laziness on the subject of the policies which remain, in spite of the numerous independent studies favorable to the vaping, completely ignorant in the matter and the unfounded allegations of a WHO decidedly very permeable to the influence of lobbies, the man in the street has a bad image of vaping. Worse still, he thinks, contrary to all truth, that nicotine is carcinogenic, which is not true. That vaping is a gateway to tobacco for the youngest, which has been invalidated by all the serious studies done on the subject. That vape is more harmful than smoking, which is wrong, proven and proven.

In short, By entrusting the vaping file to people without any expertise, today we are reaping the promises of punitive legislation, the deleterious effects of which we are currently seeing multiply around the world: ban of the aromas which are the basis even the interest of consumers for this alternative to tobacco, current tax projects driving up prices in defiance of the purchasing power already severely burdened by users and, of course, possible transfer of the baby vape in the hands of a pharmaceutical lobby already well enriched by the current Coronavirus crisis.

The equation is however clear: Price increase plus flavor suppression plus equal pharmacy control mid-term death of the Vape. A technology which has made it possible, over the past ten years, to save lives, to lead smokers to stop smoking and which remains to this day the only really effective tobacco substitute because it guarantees the preservation of the gesture, recognized as essential by tobacco specialists, a gradual descent of addiction avoiding most relapses as well as the preservation of a certain pleasure that smokers like to find in the vape. Perhaps this is the cornerstone of the detractors who prefer a withdrawal in suffering requiring medical help, the concrete reality of which is still awaited, and who take a dim view that vapers can continue to feel joy in themselves. slowly but surely weaning from their addiction.

It is in 2022 that the future of vaping will be played out.

Legislative projects abound in the wrong direction of history and what is certainly the first health revolution of the twenty-first century may not survive it. In question ? The sacrosanct Precautionary principle, a suitcase expression that one uses when one does not know anything about a specific subject. However, with such a principle, we would not have walked on the Moon, we would not use smartphones on a daily basis, Pasteur would never have invented vaccination and we would be electrified by old and polluting coal factories. History is not kind to the lukewarm.

It's time to wake up. Disunited, we are nothing and we weigh nothing in this game which is going very well from our opinion and our feedback. United, we can alert, we can defend our positions and assert them. Alone, we go faster, together we go further.

Thus, we support at 200% the action initiated by OneShot Media et Top Health and we offer to open our channels to all those, professionals or not, liquid managers, wholesalers, manufacturers, influencers and media, tobacco specialists, scientists who will have a message to bring forward that will advance this union which is now necessary to preserve and affirm the health benefits that ten years of vaping will have generated from the ground alone.

In accordance with our credo, we also open our channels to Fivape and France Vapotage if they wish, considering that the time is not for the defense of corporatism but that of a practice, the vape, which saves lives, wherever it comes from. We are also opening our channels to Vap You, So Vape, Vaping Post, Vapexpo, Le Journal du Vapoteur, E-cig Mag, Le Losange, Aiduce and anyone who wants it.

It's about, ihere and now, to act together, in defense of a single vision: that of a tobacco-free world. Everyone is welcome, while respecting our differences, our differences sometimes because the Vape, for once, must speak with the same voice. Later it will be too late.

As the saying goes, I wish you a Good Vape. Share, disseminate as much as possible, talk about it around you. As a vaper, no one is better placed than you to speak the only word that matters: yours.