{"id":19990,"date":"2020-08-24T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/actualites\/contournement-interdiction-menthol-enquete\/"},"modified":"2020-08-24T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T12:34:13","slug":"contournement-interdiction-menthol-enquete","status":"publish","type":"actualites","link":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/actualites\/contournement-interdiction-menthol-enquete\/","title":{"rendered":"Circumvention of menthol ban: public authorities open investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>La Direction G\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la Sant\u00e9 a ouvert une enqu\u00eate, apr\u00e8s l\u2019accusation de British American Tobacco (BAT) \u00e0 l\u2019encontre de son concurrent, Japan Tobacco Industry (JTI). Selon le cigarettier, JTI (Camel, Winston), ne respecterait pas l\u2019interdiction de vente de cigarettes menthol\u00e9es, entr\u00e9e en vigueur le 20 mai 2020, dans toute l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Selon British American Tobacco, les cigarettes \u00ab <em>fresh<\/em> \u00bb propos\u00e9es par JTI contiendraient des niveaux r\u00e9siduels de menthol. Comme le souligne Pascal Marbois, directeur de BAT France, ces produits s\u2019appuient sur un flou juridique sur l\u2019interdiction de vente de cigarettes et tabac \u00e0 rouler menthol\u00e9s. En effet, la directive europ\u00e9enne de 2014, \u00e0 l\u2019origine de cette disposition, interdit les ar\u00f4mes \u00ab <em>caract\u00e9risants<\/em> \u00bb, et non la pr\u00e9sence r\u00e9siduelle de menthol en tant que telle.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Le menthol : un puissant additif<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cette strat\u00e9gie est ais\u00e9ment compr\u00e9hensible. Au-del\u00e0 d\u2019\u00eatre un agent de saveur, le menthol est \u00e9galement un additif puissant. Sa pr\u00e9sence permet de r\u00e9duire la sensation d\u2019irritation, le go\u00fbt \u00e2cre du tabac, et favorise l\u2019absorption de nicotine par l\u2019organisme. En d\u00e9finitive, les \u00e9tudes men\u00e9es sur le sujet montrent que les fumeurs de cigarettes menthol\u00e9es montrent des signes d\u2019addiction plus prononc\u00e9s que les fumeurs de cigarettes classiques.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Une technique persistante de l\u2019industrie du tabac<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Comme le montre le travail d\u2019Anna B. Gilmore, cette accusation, si elle est av\u00e9r\u00e9e, reste dans la droite ligne des techniques de l\u2019industrie du tabac. Cette derni\u00e8re, pour s\u2019opposer aux mesures de r\u00e9gulation et de sant\u00e9 publique et garantir ses int\u00e9r\u00eats, adopte un certain nombre de strat\u00e9gies : blocage des l\u00e9gislations \u00e0 priori, multiplication des d\u00e9lais de mise en \u0153uvre, annulation des mesures \u00e0 posteriori, et contournement de la loi<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Les cigarettiers ont us\u00e9 de chacune de ces techniques pour s\u2019opposer \u00e0 l\u2019interdiction du menthol en Union europ\u00e9enne. Philip Morris International avait embauch\u00e9 \u00e0 elle-seule 160 lobbyistes pour miner la directive de 2014, permettant notamment retardant \u00e0 2020 l\u2019interdiction de vente des cigarettes au menthol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pour lire notre dossier consacr\u00e9 au menthol, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/article\/strategie-cigarettiers-menthol-interdiction-mai-2020\/\">cliquez sur ce lien<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mots cl\u00e9s : Menthol, sant\u00e9 publique, industrie du tabac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/\">\u00a9G\u00e9n\u00e9ration Sans Tabac<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/economie\/des-geants-du-tabac-soupconnes-de-contourner-l-interdiction-des-cigarettes-mentholees_AN-202008210058.html\">Des g\u00e9ants du tabac soup\u00e7onn\u00e9s de contourner l\u2019interdiction des cigarettes menthol\u00e9e<\/a><\/em>, BFM, 21\/08\/2020, (consult\u00e9 le 24\/08\/2020)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Selda Ulucanlar, Gary J. Fooks, Anna B. Gilmore, \u00ab The Policy Dystopia Model: An Interpretive Analysis of Tobacco Industry Political Activity \u00bb, Plos Medicine, septembre 2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1002125\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1002125<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnct.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comit\u00e9 National Contre le Tabagisme |<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Health Agency (DGS) has opened an investigation following accusations by British American Tobacco (BAT) against its competitor, Japan Tobacco Industry (JTI). According to the tobacco company, JTI (Camel, Winston), is not complying with the ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes, which came into effect across the European Union on May 20, 2020.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":19991,"template":"","tags":[],"thematique":[502,499],"class_list":["post-19990","actualites","type-actualites","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thematique-justice","thematique-lobby"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites\/19990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualites"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites\/19990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19990"},{"taxonomy":"thematique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.generationsanstabac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematique?post=19990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}