Almost half of the vaping products consumed across the European Union may be bought outside the regular market, with irregular sales worth an estimated €6.6 billion, according to a major analysis of the sector.
The study by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated…
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A study examining why US teenagers start and continue vaping has been retracted after problems were found in its data analysis.
The Journal of Adolescent Health says the flaws affected the results reported in the paper.
The retraction was requested by both…
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…
US doctors are being urged to discuss vapes with adult smokers who want to quit, as tobacco researchers say the evidence supporting their use has strengthened considerably in recent years.
New recommendations published in JAMA say nicotine vapes should be included in…
Exclusive vape use among US adults increased by an average of 18.8 per cent a year between 2015 and 2023.
Exclusive cigarette smoking fell by 6.6 per cent a year between 2019 and 2023.
By 2023, exclusive vaping was more common than…
Daily smoking in the UK has fallen by almost a third since 2020, while six in 10 people who currently vape are former smokers, new figures from Action on Smoking and Health suggest.
The proportion of adults smoking every day has dropped…
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…
