The fight against tobacco: why does the left want to ban e-cigarettes?

The fight against tobacco. The left would also like to ban e-cigarettes and is reportedly working behind the scenes, in collaboration with Brussels, to achieve this. The details.

E-cigarettes: The Left Wants to Ban Them

The left is reportedly working behind the scenes in Europe, in collaboration with Brussels, to criminalise, in order to even ban, electronic smoking , ultimately leading to the banning of e-cigarettes and all alternative products to traditional smoking.

This would be the case in the legislative proposal to revise the European Directive on Tobacco and Nicotine Products (TPD), which the EU Commission has announced for late 2026, despite calls for caution from several member states, including Italy.

The fight against tobacco: why does the left want to ban e-cigarettes?

Does the left really want to ban e- cigarettes ? At the moment, there's no certainty; it's just a rumor. As Libero reports : "The Commission's starting point would be to treat all products like cigarettes. However, this choice is meeting with more than a little resistance at the European level. " Also according to Libero , Brussels has begun to preempt the situation: " Some documents seen by Libero reveal an informal meeting that took place even before the final proposal was formulated between members of Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi's cabinet and several MEPs from left-wing forces, particularly S&D, the Greens, and Renew."

Not just any politicians, but former EU health ministers or commissioners, specifically summoned, the documents state, for their credibility in supporting the Commission's tough stance. Left-wing MEPs have explicitly called for this stance, stating that a "killer" move will be needed, meaning "a decisive and structural legislative act that closes the current loopholes in one fell swoop, and not another incremental update that industry can absorb." In other words, the goal is not only, as often happens, to fleece taxpayers, but also to destroy entire production chains, as if the manufacturing industry didn't already have enough problems.