Smoking is the leading cause of early and preventable death, killing eight million people globally every year.
The world is on a mission to stamp out the deadly habit - but most countries are far behind their targets of becoming ‘smoke free’. …
More than two in three (68 per cent) Canadian smokers who successfully switched to vaping used flavours that are set to be banned, a new study reveals.
The report, published in the science journal PubMed, found that one in five Canadian adults…
Smoking rates in Sweden have dropped dramatically since the 1980s while snus use has risen steeply, a new study has found.
The paper, published in science journal BMJ Open, reported a “substantial decline” in cigarette smoking from 1986 to 2022 of 26.3…
It’s a difficult balance to strike - reducing the appeal of vapes to young people while acknowledging their role in helping adult smokers to quit.
An answer for an increasing number of countries has been to ban all vape flavours except tobacco…
Flavoured vape bans in the U.S have led to an increase in smoking rates among young adults, a new study has found.
The study, published in the National Library of Medicine, looks at the impact restrictions to vape flavours such as fruit…
As a growing number of countries move to prohibit vaping, it could be easy to forget that smoking is a far more dangerous habit.
The World Health Organisation estimates that a colossal eight million people globally die from smoking every year. Half…
In the remaining three studies, vapes were found to be equally as effective as other methods or no treatment – and no studies concluded they were less successful.
The research, published in the journal BMC Health, shows that a higher proportion of smokers who used fruit or other flavoured vapes had quit cigarettes after six months (15.4 per cent) compared to those who used mint flavoured vapes (11.6 per cent).
Disposable vapes will be banned from June 1, 2025, in an attempt to reduce the appeal of vaping to young people. Under separate proposed legislation, flavours will also be heavily restricted.