State flavour bans cut vape use among 18 to 24-year-olds by around two to three percentage points
But cigarette use rose by a similar amount in the same group, creating a net health loss
Young people aged 14 to 17 showed little…
Australia’s crackdown on vaping is failing, with new official figures showing only a trickle of legal sales through pharmacies while the black market thrives.
Since October, ‘therapeutic vapes’ - legal, regulated products with limited flavours - have only been available to buy…
Most under-18s who vape are sourcing vapes through the black market, new polling suggests - a warning sign that restrictions and bans are failing to keep products out of young people’s hands.
A survey of 2,000 adults and 500 youths aged 15…
Confusion among U.S. doctors about nicotine may be costing lives, with nearly half mistakenly believing it causes cancer, a new study has found.
According to a survey of 1,565 medical professionals conducted by Povaddo Research, 47 per cent of doctors, nurses, and…
Health experts say Brussels is putting Sweden’s smoke-free success at risk, warning that a huge EU tax hike on nicotine pouches could dismantle the world’s leading harm reduction model.
Smoke Free Sweden, a global public health initiative, submitted its response to the…
Disposable vapes are being given a second life on the Ukrainian front lines, thanks to volunteers in the UK who are recycling the banned products into power sources for soldiers.
The initiative is run by the Leeds Ukrainian Community Association (LUCA), which…
The global market for illicit vapes has ballooned to unprecedented levels, fuelled by tightening restrictions and outright bans in multiple countries, according to new analysis from Euromonitor.
Illicit electronic vape sales rose seven per cent last year to around 605 billion products…
Daily cigarette smoking among young adults (19 to 30) has dropped to just three per cent in 2024.
Smoking in the past 30 days among young adults has fallen by nearly three quarters since 2004.
At the same time, one in four…
Dutch doctors have filed a formal complaint against Snap - the parent company of messaging app Snapchat - accusing it of failing to prevent the sale of illegal vapes to teenagers in the Netherlands.
The complaint, which was submitted to the Authority…