#Frank Vandenbroucke

[tomorrowusa]

Belgium is banning sales of e-cigarettes or vapes starting with the new year. Good for the Belgians!

Big tobacco is in a tailspin because of the decline of cigarette smoking. So they are trying to promote e-cigarettes which are being painted as a more trendy alternative. Getting teens hooked is a priority.

Though in addition to the health risks, disposable e-cigarettes have an environmental cost.

Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke said the inexpensive e-cigarettes had turned into a health threat since they are an easy way for teenagers to be drawn into smoking and get hooked on nicotine. "Disposable e-cigarettes is a new product simply designed to attract new consumers," he said in an interview. "E-cigarettes often contain nicotine. Nicotine makes you addicted to nicotine. Nicotine is bad for your health. These are fact," Vandenbroucke added. Because they are disposable, the plastic, battery and circuits are a burden on the environment. On top of that, "they create hazardous waste chemicals still present in what people throw away," Vandenbroucke said. The health minister said he also targeted the disposable e-cigarettes because reusable ones could be a tool to help people quit smoking if they cannot find another way.

So people in Belgium can still use reusable ones – particularly if it helps them quit regular cigarettes.

Anecdotally, a day hardly goes by without seeing used disposable vapes tossed on sidewalks or streets in US cities. US states need to observe how the ban plays out in Belgium.

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99 Road World Championships:

1º Óscar Freire, 2º Markus Zberg, 3º Jean-Cyril Robin (not in the photo).

The Verona World Championship might just be one of the most surprising events in cycling history. The great favorites for victory were Jan Ullrich and Frank Vandebroucke, while Óscar Freire was a young and completely unknown rider. I began the race as a passionate teenager, a devoted fan of Vandebroucke, but it concluded with me completely mesmerized by Freire's stunning victory. From that moment on, he became one of my all-time favorite cyclists. The mastery of his attack in the final kilometer, executed with incredible aesthetics, secured him the triumph in the awe-inspiring city of Verona. It remains one of the most memorable World Championships I have ever witnessed.

[ronnydeschepper]

Twintig jaar geleden: Raimondas Rumsas geschrapt uit de uitslag van de Tour

In 2000 brak Raimondas Rumšas (Šilutė , 14 januari 1972) door met een vijfde plaats in het eindklassement van de Ronde van Spanje en winst in de Ronde van Lombardije. Twee jaar later eindigde hij in de Ronde van Frankrijk als derde in het eindklassement (*). Een dag later werd de wielrenner geschorst door zijn ploeg Lampre, nadat in de auto van zijn vrouw Edita Rumšienė (**) dopingproducten…

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De genderkliniek in het UZ Gent is nog altijd het enige ziekenhuis in Vlaanderen waar transgenderzorg in al zijn facetten wordt aangeboden: psychologie, endocrinologie en chirurgie. [...] En het is ook de enige genderkliniek die zich toelegt op kinderen en adolescenten. Minister van Volksgezondheid Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit) erkent het gebrek aan capaciteit. "We hebben nood aan nieuwe centra waar patiënten terechtkunnen, en daar werken we aan."

[jloisse]

🇧🇪 On lui demande, mais il dit “non”: pourquoi Frank Vandenbroucke refuse-t-il de rendre public les mails envoyés pendant la crise sanitaire?

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Bélgica proíbe cigarro eletrônico descartável e constrange Europa

O ano de 2025 começou na Bélgica com uma nova proibição: cigarros eletrônicos descartáveis agora são ilegais no país. Segundo Frank Vandenbroucke, ministro da Saúde belga, o banimento se deve “ao fato de que ele foi desenhado para atrair novos consumidores”. No caso, jovens consumidores. “Cigarros eletrônicos contêm nicotina na maioria das vezes. Nicotina vicia. Nicotina faz mal à saúde. É isso”,…

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https://www.sudinfo.be/id687108/article/2023-07-13/frank-vandenbroucke-veut-augmenter-le-personnel-dans-les-centres-de-psychiatrie

Beaucoup de Personnes viennent de France pour travailler à l'hôpital psychiatrique Le Chêne aux Haies

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Plan antitabac en Belgique : promesses creuses, mais vraies restrictions contre la réduction des risques

Réduire de moitié le tabagisme d’ici 2028, pour l’éliminer totalement en 2040, en aidant les fumeurs à sortir de la cigarette, y compris avec le vapotage. C’était la promesse de la stratégie présentée par le ministre de la Santé Frank Vandenbroucke en mars 2022. Un an après, il a fait passer une révision de l’Arrêté sur le vapotage qui risque, à partir du 11 juillet, de décimer le marché et…

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Jan Ullrich and Frank Vandenbroucke, Vuelta 1999.

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Frank Vandenbroucke

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top ten remarkable moments in cycling history (i would like to updated it)

I like history, I like lists, and, of course, I like cycling.

In 2019, I proposed creating a collaborative list on Twitter to select the 10 most remarkable moments the history of cycling (yes, ambitious, I know). People chose their 10 moments, and in the end, after counting all the lists (about 40), these were the results:

Merano - Aprica, Giro d'Italia 1994. Battle between Pantani, Berzin and Indurain in Passo dello Stelvio, Valico di Santa Cristina, Mortirolo and Aprica.

Saint-Gervais - Sestrières, Tour de France 1992. Epic ride by Claudio Chiappucci in the Alps, through Iseran, Mont Cenis and Sestrières, in a brutal stage of 254 km.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial - Ávila, Vuelta a España 1999. Frank Vandenbroucke's mad attack on the Ávila walls, after destroy the concurrence in Navalmoral.

Venaria Reale - Bardonecchia/Jafferau, Giro d'Italia 2018. Chris Froome took the maglia rosa after a 80 km solo ride, with a powerful attack on Colle delle Finestre.

Versailles - Paris / Champs Elysées, Tour de France 1989. Dramatic time trial with Greg LeMond tacking the maillot jaune to Laurent Fignon by only 8 seconds.

Grenoble - Les Deux Alpes, Tour de France 1998. In the Tour of doping scandals, Marco Pantani took the maillot jaune to Jan Ullrich after an attack on Col de Galibier.

Charleroi - Liège, Tour de France 1995. Miguel Indurain attacks in the Ardennes with Johan Bruyneel on his wheel.

Saint-Jeanne-de-Maurienne - Morzine, Tour de France 2006. Floyd Landis did a Landis through the Alps. Saisies, Aravis, Colombière and Joux Plane were in the menu. In a few days after the Tour, Landis tested positive in testosterone.

Luxembourg, ITT, Tour de France 1992. Maybe the most brutal ITT performance in Tour history, done by Miguel Indurain (perhaps now is Combloux 2022...).

Road World Championships in Duitama, Colombia, 1995. Abraham Olano wins the rainbow jersey in the most hilly world championship ever. He arrives at the finish line with a flat tyre.

As you can see, the list was dominated by events from the 1990s, as many people who participate had lived those times in their childhood or adolescence. It was also a list in which Spanish or Spanish-speaking moments predominated, since most of the people who participated were from those backgrounds.

Now, I would like to update that list and give it a more 'international' view, with your colaboration. I believe many things have happened since 2020, don't you think? La Planche 2020, Granon 2022, Combloux 2023, some Lièges by Remco or Strades by Pogi, the duel between van der Poel and van Aert in Ronde 2020, the Pogi's Ronde...

So, here is my proposal: feel free to choose the 10 moments in the history of cycling that you consider to be the best—10 epic battles, 10 close sprints, 10 cute moments, 10 controversial moments, whatever. Whether it's women's or men's cycling, road, cross, or track, it doesn't matter. Moments you have experienced firsthand, or not, perhaps you have watched it on tv or even you read about it because they happened before you were born.

You can share this post by adding your list, or even include it in the tags. In a month, I will compile the results and I will also publish them here and on my blog (in Spanish). Thank you for your collaboration.

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Twintig jaar geleden: Cipollini wereldkampioen in Zolder

Twintig jaar na datum vind ik hier een mail terug, gericht aan mijn zoon John, die op dat moment al in Tenerife woonde, met als onderwerp: “Het WK van de schande”… Continue reading Untitled

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Jean-Luc and Frank Vandenbroucke, 1994.

[theonehotnews]

Coronavirus: une prime d'encouragement va être octroyée au personnel hospitalier, annonce Frank Vandenbroucke

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Remco Evenepoel of Quick-Step - Alpha Vinyl Team & Philippe Gilbert of Lotto Soudal and Belgium after the 35th Binche - Chimay - Binche / Mémorial Frank Vandenbroucke 2022 a 198,6km one day race from Binche to Binche on October 04, 2022 in Binche, Belgium. (Photos by Cor Vos via WielerFlits)

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1. Three more people charged in Brussels over terrorist plot

The three other suspects that were arrested in Brussels during an anti-terror operation on Monday evening have been charged with participation in a terrorist group's activities, Belga News Agency reports. Read more.

2. 'Absolutely necessary': Belgium implements first-ever nationwide alcohol plan

Belgium's various health ministers approved its "interfederal alcohol plan" with 75 measures to combat excessive and harmful alcohol consumption in the country, announced Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke on Wednesday. Read more.

3. 'A good day for Europe': EU to double renewable energy consumption by 2030

The EU has reached a provisional agreement to almost double the proportion of its total energy consumption originating from renewable energy sources by 2030, Reuters reports. Read more.

4. Man found dead in car in Brussels, murder investigation started

A man was found dead in a car on Wednesday evening in the East of Brussels. As it is possible he may have been shot, a murder investigation has been opened. Read more.

5. Brussels hospital condemned for operating intersex teen without consent

A children’s hospital in Brussels was condemned by an appeals court for performing a vaginoplasty (the construction of a vagina) on an underage intersex person, without correctly informing the patient about her options. Read more.

6. Hallerbos bluebells to bloom in second half of April

The Hallerbos forest in Flemish Brabant is expected to turn purple again in the second half of April with the flowering of the small purple hyacinths. Read more.

7. Hidden Belgium: Petit Mercado

The relaxed brunch spot Petit Mercado has brought a taste of Buenos Aires to a corner of Brussels. Read more.