National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Electronic cigarettes are addictive and harmful, and their flavours make them attractive to use. As both adults and youth like sweet and fruity flavours in particular, e-cigarette use can be discouraged by banning such flavours. In order to discourage e-cigarette use among young people and non-smokers, the Dutch Government announced in 2020 to only allow tobacco flavours in e-liquids. This factsheet describes a proposal for a restrictive list of allowed flavouring ingredients that will only enable the production of e-liquids with a tobacco flavour.
This publication contains an addendum dated June 2023 on page 6.
RIVM conducts research on the harmful effects of the use of tobacco and nicotine products. What impact has smoking on health, what makes tobacco and nicotine products attractive and addictive? RIVM aims to support global tobacco policymaking and enforcement of tobacco regulation.