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Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EU Commissioner responsible for health, says the next European Commission will propose strengthening regulations, especially on e-cigarettes and next-generation products, based on a report showing how the Tobacco Product Directive (TPD) works in practice.
Andriukaitis, who recently announced he would run for Lithuania’s presidency, said, “We have two issues: one is to collect information about electronic cigarettes but also different novel tobacco products. They will have a lot of work to do. They need to show how the TPD works in reality and explore possibilities to improve it.”
According to Andriukaitis, it is better to use smoking cessation aids such as Nicorette, and that if there was a real possibility to help heavy smokers kick the habit with the help of electronic cigarettes, then it has to be managed by medical doctors and specialists, to be sold in pharmacies and “not in supermarkets.”