Australia’s illicit nicotine market has grown to account for an estimated 80 per cent of all consumption, as new government analysis shows vape use surging while consumption through legal channels falls sharply.
Experimental estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggest…
Britain’s vaping industry has backed government plans to give councils greater control over new vape shops, but warned that responsible specialist retailers must not be swept up in a wider crackdown on high-street businesses.
Under proposals announced this week, new vape shops…
A specially designed vape introduced in prisons across England and Wales has been credited with helping cut fires by 46 per cent, as officials in Ireland consider whether vaping could also reduce prison staff exposure to second-hand cigarette smoke.
The developments offer…
Almost 96 per cent of vapes bought in Australia may be coming from the illicit market, according to research that raises fresh questions over whether the country’s pharmacy-only sales model is working.
A survey of 4,000 recent nicotine consumers by criminologist James…
Ireland’s plan to restrict vape flavour names to “Tobacco” and “Unflavoured” has been delayed after Italy and Greece formally challenged the proposed rules at EU level.
Both countries submitted “detailed opinions” through the European Commission’s Technical Regulation Information System, or TRIS, raising…
Estonia has proposed tightening its vape flavour ban and imposing a 4mg per gram nicotine limit on pouches under sweeping new rules covering smoke-free nicotine products.
The draft legislation would restrict vapes and nicotine pouches to tobacco and menthol flavours made from…
Governments have been urged to reconsider flavour bans, high taxes and other restrictions on vaping after research found New Zealand’s smoking decline accelerated fivefold as vaping became more widely used.
Smoke Free Sweden said the findings strengthened the case for keeping smoke-free…
Shopify has ordered merchants worldwide to remove all vape products from their online stores, extending a US crackdown on illegal vapes into a blanket global ban.
The Canadian e-commerce company told sellers to remove the products by July 8 or risk having…
One of France’s largest online vape retailers has introduced compulsory selfie-based age checks for new customers, as the industry seeks to show internet sales can be kept out of minors’ hands without a blanket ban.
Le Petit Vapoteur has required every new…
