According to foreign news reports, the European Commission announced the results of the "Tobacco Products Directive" (TPD) implementation report, which is a long-awaited document that assesses the advantages and disadvantages of this notorious legislation. The TPD 2021 application report specifically pointed out new tobacco products, such as snuff and e-cigarettes, because they brought "specific regulatory challenges." The report document may be the first step in re-enacting this notorious directive.

The EU TPD was introduced in 2017. Its purpose is to educate the public about the risks of smoking and prevent non-smokers and minors from using it. At the same time, many public health experts have been worried that due to all the restrictions set by the law, those "experienced" smokers will return to smoking after switching to e-cigarettes. Sadly, some studies have shown that this is indeed the case.

The annual publication ``Adult Smoking Habits in Great Britain'' (data from 2017) issued by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in 2018 pointed out that although the smoking rate of young people has further declined, the smoking rate of elderly people has appeared for many years. The first slight increase. The well-known independent data analysis of the tobacco substitutes industry, ECigIntelligence, explained that since 2019, the European Commission has conducted different evaluations with industry members, commissioned internal scientists and third parties to conduct research, and set up a verification seminar to check all Consistency and accuracy of survey results. These research results are used by officials as an important source of documents, and then forwarded to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Commission, and the regional committees. The TPD 2021 application report was finally announced by the European Commission on May 20. It specifically pointed out that new tobacco products, such as snuff, constitute "specific regulatory challenges."

The report did not recognize the benefits of such products, but referred to them as regulatory troubles, saying that the market for tobacco and nicotine products was "more diversified and more challenging to regulate" because new product categories "circumvent existing regulations." , Cannot be completely resolved by the current TPD rules.

Health warnings, the presence of flavors, and the use of equipment are the "legal loopholes" that these new products have specifically pointed out in the committee report. The committee also said that it plans to amend the Tobacco Control Act to fully grasp new products such as nicotine bags and heated tobacco products (HTPs). When writing the report, it is believed that the General Administration of Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) considered a product perception study and studied the public’s perception of specific product categories, such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products.

The titled "Views of European Adult Smokers on the Harmfulness of E-cigarettes Relative to Combustible Cigarettes: 2016 and 2018 EUREST-PLUS IT Cohort Study Results" aims to determine the harms of TPD to e-cigarettes relative to cigarettes The impact of perception, the research subjects are adult smokers from six EU member states (Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Spain). Before the implementation of TPD, a total of 6,011 participants were recruited in 2016. Among them, 3195 were followed up with another 2832 new interviewees in 2018. The researchers adjusted the results based on daily cigarette consumption, sociodemographic characteristics, and the number of times they participated in the study.

Researchers found that in 2018, 28.4% of respondents believed that e-cigarettes were less harmful than cigarettes, 61.8% of respondents believed that e-cigarettes were the same or greater harm than cigarettes, and 9.8% of respondents answered that they did not Know that e-cigarettes are more harmful, less harmful or the same than cigarettes. However, when comparing 2016 with 2018, it was found that there was no obvious overall difference in people's views. The only exception is the change in Spain’s “don’t know” answer. Participants answered in 2018 that they did not know whether e-cigarettes are less harmful than cigarettes than in 2016.

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