NEW POLL: Flavour Ban Risks Lives and Fuels Black Market

A new poll shows one in three vapers will return to smoking if popular flavours are banned.

Learn how the proposed flavour ban risks creating an unregulated market and driving ex-smokers back to cigarettes.

YOUR VOICE CAN STOP THE BAN

DEADLINE: June 15

The EU is consulting right now on rules that could ban vape flavours across Europe. As an adult who vapes to stay off cigarettes, your experience is exactly what they need to hear.

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New Poll Results & Resources You Can Use to Stop the Ban

Don’t let flavours essential to quitting be banned. Click below to read the poll results and access all the news, articles, and tools you need to join the fight

Red C 2025 Poll Results

Resources and Articles

Irish vapers say "keep flavours to quit smoking"

Flavoured vapes help 94% of ex-smokers to quit, according to Red C survey.

Vapes are not a gateway

Research of 37,000 young people found vaping is not a gateway to cigarette smoking. (University College London)

1 in 4 successful quitters use vaping

More smokers successfully quit using vapes than with with nicotine patches, gums or sprays. (Healthy Ireland 2023)

Flavoured vapes can help us achieve a tobacco-free Ireland

Vapers are cigarette ‘quitters not starters’

The Facts from Respect Vapers:

Smoking is the problem, vaping is a viable solution and should be an effective element in Ireland’s Tobacco Free Ireland campaign.

56%

Of vapers have quit smoking completely. (NDAS 2021)

Therapies

Vaping products are 70% more effective for smokers quitting than patches, sprays and gums. (Cochrane Library)

99%

Of vapers are ex or current smokers. (Healthy Ireland 2021)

Comparison

Vaping is not smoking. It does not involve burning tobacco. (Cochrane Review)

Less Harmful

Vaping is 95% less harmful – 423 studies by 50 doctors/experts. (Public Health England 2015)

Under 18s

The sale of vaping products to under 18s has now been banned in Ireland. These laws must be strongly enforced.

We need your help

Respect Vapers gives a voice to Ireland’s 200,000 vapers and highlights how vaping is transforming people’s lives.

The only way the crusade against vaping will end is if Irish vapers stand up and speak out to let politicians know how vaping has improved their health.

Restricting vaping will keep people smoking. Ireland deserves a better choice.

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Your Stories

I have not had a cigarette or a chest infection since I switched over to vaping eight years ago

Nigel, Blessington, Co Wicklow

Thanks to vaping, I will never smoke again

Keith, Firhouse, Dublin

I was able to give up cigarettes by changing over to vaping–it has been life changing for me

Laela, Artane Dublin

I am feeling much healthier now and I am also saving a lot of money as the cost of vaping is much less than cigarettes

Michael, Gorey, Co Wexford

I started vaping about three or four years ago. I had tried everything else in my attempt to quit, but always failed miserably

George, Clarehall, Dublin

I started vaping about three or four years ago. I had tried everything else in my attempt to quit, but always failed miserablyGeorge, Clarehall, Dublin

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