A new report by the French Observatory for Addictive Drugs and Trends (OFDT), published on Tuesday, May 20 in Association with Public Health France, highlights the increase in vapeo in France.
This survey was carried out in 2023 in a representative sample of 14,984 adults from 18 to 75 years living in the different regions of France.
A daily use of electronic cigarettes
“The proportion of adults who declare that they have already vapped in their lives has almost doubled in nine years, from 25.7% in 2014 to 41.8%” in 2023, the report explains.
Today, 8.3% of vape adults. It is often a daily use, or 6.1% of young people aged 18 to 75, which refers to all categories of the French population. The study also reveals that “men are more often daily vapers” (6.8%) than women (5.4%).
The specificity of this relationship is the comparison between the different regions of France, it specifies that the daily vapeo is more common in Brittany and Normandy (8.5% and 8.1%). “This specificity of Brittany had already been observed in 2021”.
Decrease in smoking
If the use of vapoteuse progresses, the cigarette is going back. “Between 2021 and 2023, daily smoking has fallen: 23.1% of daily smokers in 2023 against 25.3% in 2021” in France, indicates the OFDT.
The French regions most affected by this lower consumption of cigarettes are île-de-Franco and Brittany (19.6% and 19.5%). On the contrary, depending on the d’Azur and Bourgogne-France-Compé they have more daily smokers (26.5% and 26.8%).
“This decrease in daily smoking is particularly marked in unemployed.” According to the study, the proportion of smokers in unemployed people increased from 45.8% by 2021 to 35.7% in 2023.
Good news a few days from the day of the world without tobacco on May 31.
Source: BFM TV
