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Canada’s vape flavour ban now NOT on cards this year

Canada’s tabled national ban on vape flavours is now unlikely to be made law this year, according to health groups. Just three months ago, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Ya’ara Saks vowed the restrictions were coming “soon.” "I am seized with…

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Pharmacists must not be ‘criminalised’ for promoting vapes as stop smoking aid, say UK MPs

Pharmacists could find themselves “on the wrong side of the law” under tough new vaping restrictions, MPs in the UK have warned. The upcoming Tobacco and Vapes Bill is set to “ban the advertising and sponsorship of all vapes and other nicotine…

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Vapers face €2,000 fine on 38 Spanish beaches

Vaping on 38 beaches across Barcelona and the Balearic islands now carries a whopping €2,000 fine. A recent rule change means vaping is banned on 10 beaches in Barcelona and 28 in the Spanish-owned Balearic islands Meanwhile, smoking is illegal on 700…

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Vape shops in Ireland hit with new licence fee

Ireland is introducing a new licence fee for retailers selling vapes. From February 2, shops wishing to sell vapes will be hit with an annual charge of €800. There will be a further fee of €1,000 if they sell tobacco. Nicotine pouches…

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Bangladesh bans vapes – and cigarette production increases

Bangladesh has implemented a strict ban on all imports of vapes and nicotine pouches. “It is necessary to take urgent measures to ban these products and ensure the public health and safety of future generations,” the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare…

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Vietnam enforces vape ban with tough punishments

Vietnam has implemented a blanket ban on all vapes with hefty fines and jail time for offenders. The new legislation - which came into effect on January 1 - prohibits the production, sale, import, storage, transportation and usage of vapes with the…

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Latvia brings in raft of tough new vape restrictions

Latvia has implemented tough new restrictions on vapes and other safer nicotine alternatives to smoking. From January 1, vape flavours are banned in the Baltic country, with the exception of tobacco. Pouches also have a limit on the level of nicotine they…

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Biden Administration moves to limit nicotine in cigarettes to “non-addictive” levels.

The Food and Drug Administration has proposed a rule to limit nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels six years after it first said it intended to do so and five days before President Biden leaves office. FDA has proposed a rule that…

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Maldives enforces blanket ban on vapes

The ban – which was implemented on Sunday December 15 – follows recent amendments to the island country’s Tobacco Control Act. These were signed into law by President Mohamed Muizzu on November 13.

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