European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates

THE EU NICOTINE USERS SURVEY 2020

The EU residents report - ETHRA, June, 2021

Between 12th October to 31 December 2020, more than 37,000 persons responded to ETHRA’s online EU Nicotine Users Survey.
ETHRA partners designed the questionnaire, translated it into 16 languages and analysed the data, all on a voluntary basis.
To summarise the results, we first highlight ten key facts, which are then analysed in the report on the results for the 35,296 participants from the 28 EU countries subjected to the European directive on tobacco products (TPD).

HERE ARE THE RESULTS

The EU residents report

More than 35,000 residents from 28 EU countries, including the UK, participated in the survey.

Each participant took on average 11 minutes to complete the questionnaire. The 44 questions addressed consumer use of nicotine, with topics including: smoking and the desire to quit, use of alternative nicotine products, and barriers to switching caused by the Tobacco Products Directive and national regulations.

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Le rapport sur les résidents de l'UE

Plus de 35 000 résidents des 28 pays de l’UE, y compris du Royaume-Uni, ont participé à l’enquête.

Chaque participant a pris 11 minutes en moyenne pour remplir le questionnaire. Les 44 questions portaient sur l’utilisation de la nicotine par les consommateurs. Les sujets abordés concernaient notamment le tabagisme et le désir d’arrêter de fumer, l’utilisation du snus, le vapotage et les obstacles à l’arrêt tabagique, notamment liés à la directive TPD et aux réglementations nationales.

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Der EU-Einwohner-Bericht

Mehr als 35.000 Einwohner aus 28 EU-Ländern, einschließlich Großbritannien, nahmen an der Umfrage teil.

Jeder Teilnehmer benötigte im Durchschnitt 11 Minuten, um den Fragebogen auszufüllen. Die 44 Fragen befassten sich mit dem Nikotinkonsum der Verbraucher. Themen waren u. a. Rauchen und der Wunsch, mit dem Rauchen aufzuhören, die Verwendung alternativer Nikotinprodukte sowie Umstiegshindernisse, die durch die TPD und nationale Vorschriften verursacht werden.

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Comments to the questionnaire Although the survey sample cannot be considered representative of the general population, these results from more than 32,000 people strongly suggest that in Europe there is a significant mass of people who have made the switch from smoking to vaping.
They are several tens of thousands of people for whom the subject is important enough for them to give their time to participate in our survey. More than 7,000 comments to the questionnaire, comments by country can be downloaded on the ETHRA website:

Austria

Ich bemerke, seit ich von Zigaretten auf Dampfen umgestiegen bin, eine unglaubliche Verbesserung meiner Gesundheit, ich nehme an ähnlich wie bei einem Rauchstop, den ich vorher mit allen empfohlenen Methoden erfolglos versucht habe. Eine der besten Entscheidungen meines Lebens.

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Belgium

J'ai fumé la tueuse plus de 40a et depuis que je vape 6a, mon état de santé c'est nettement amélioré.vive la vape libre et non aux taxes.

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Bulgaria

Flavors are one of the reasons many people vape, if they are not here many people will maybe stop vaping and go back to smoking which will lead to very big health problems for the EU population.

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Croatia

Vaping is so much better alternatives to smoking and flavors make it much better because people have different tastes and that why its so important to keep flavored products

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Cyprus

Do not restrict tank sizes to 2ml - pointless. Keep taxes low to encourage the transfer from cigarettes to vaping

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Czechia

I find TPD regulations, especially vape related, such as limitation to 10ml and 20mg/ml very arbitrary and counterproductive to the goal of harm reduction in adults

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Denmark

Jeg er stoppet med at ryge på grund af damp! Det har ikke alene hjulpet mig til et bedre helbred, men skåner samtidig min hustru og to børn for passiv rygning.

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España

Tengo 55 años, operado de corazón, y después de fumar más de 30 años, y intentar muchas veces dejarlo, sin resultado. Con el vapeo he podido, y sin esfuerzo. Para mí me ha cambiado la vida. Un saludo

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Estonia

All I have to say is that you should cut off the flavor ban and reduce the taxes on e-liquid. If liquid would have UK prices in EU it would make me buy from e-cig stores not from black market and mix my own juice

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Finland

Finland has Europe's toughest e-cigarette regulation. Law is irrationally restrictive, so it has directed me to DIY. I probably would be a smoker if DIY could be banned.

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France

Vapoter m'a permis de remplacer la cigarette sans bcp d'efforts après plusieurs essais d'arrêt infructueux. Aujourd'hui, ma santé est meilleure grâce au vapotage.

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Germany

Das Dampfen hat meine Gesundheit wesentlich verbessert. Mein Hausarzt und meine Lungenfachärztin sind begeistert und vom Dampfen als Ausstieg vom Rauchen überzeugt.

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Greece

Flavors are the most important part of vaping liquids. When I started I used fruits and dessert flavored liquids because I was disgusted by the flavor of tobacco.

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Hungary

Az elektromos cigaretta egy hatásos alternatíva azoknak, akik nem akarnak/tudnak leszokni a nikotinbevitelrÅ‘l. Ezért azt nem célszerÅ± túlszabályozni, különben a feketepiac fog erÅ‘södni

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Ireland

I started smoking at 15 i quit using vaping at 23 after trying every other method available. Vaping has saved my life, improved my health and flavoured products have been instrumental in my quitting smoking.

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Italy

Il vaping è il metodo migliore e meno dannoso per combattere il cancro da tabagismo. Vietarlo o limitare l'uso di aromi non sarebbe responsabile. Occorrono regole per la vendita di prodotti sicuri.

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Lithuania

A sin tax on vaping products will only increase the demand for black/grey market products, which cannot be controlled. Maintaining high quality, over-the-counter products at competitive prices would limit risks associated with bad quality products that may be harmful.

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