Spain’s planned crackdown on vaping is facing pushback from regulators and hospitality groups, with warnings that a disposable vape ban could damage competition, confuse tourists and yield little public health benefit. Regulator urges alternatives to vape ban Concerns intensified after the National…
Mexico is moving to impose some of the world’s harshest penalties on vaping. New legal reforms would criminalise the production and sale of vapes nationwide. The Senate has passed changes to the General Health Law that would allow authorities to impose prison…
The European Commission has announced that revisions to its tobacco control laws will be fast tracked, with a proposal now expected next year. A leaked draft of its Cardiovascular plan - now renamed the Safe Hearts Plan - obtained by EurActiv and…
Two recent stories - Dutch teens “flooding” hospitals after vaping and Belgian kids supposedly being “hooked” on hidden opioids in vapes - sound terrifying. They also risk seriously misleading the public about what’s really going on with youth nicotine and drugs. Let’s…
In a lab study of 41 adults who both smoke and vape, limiting vape flavour and device options made cigarettes more likely to be chosen
When only a tobacco-flavoured vape was available, people chose cigarettes more often and vaped less
Even when…
New review finds vaping involved in just 5.3% of teen cigarette experimentation in analysed cohorts
Most ‘gateway’ studies excluded nearly two thirds of teen vapers and three quarters of new smokers from their main analysis
Study design prevents detecting any potential ‘diversion’…
Love Island star Shakira Khan has revealed a long-kept production detail from inside the villa: a designated “vape box” where Islanders’ devices are stored out of sight from cameras. The 22-year-old finalist shared the information during an Instagram Q&A, when a fan…
A viral video has shocked millions after YouTuber Chris Notap demonstrated, in stomach-turning detail, the difference between what cigarettes and vapes leave behind inside a pair of makeshift “lungs”. The simple but brutally visual experiment has already prompted many smokers to say…
Six months after the disposable vape ban, illicit products are still widely available. Waste companies are also reporting daily fires caused by discarded vapes, casting serious doubt on whether the crackdown is working. A return visit by LBC to Nottingham found that…
