Canary Islands to hike tax on vapes in 2025 budget
The Canary Islands is to increase tax on vapes and vaping products in its 2025 budget.
The Canary Islands is to increase tax on vapes and vaping products in its 2025 budget.
It’s been a bust few weeks in the world of safer nicotine products, what with Australia’s effective prohibition, some European country urging a continent wide flavour ban, and Sweden going the other way and implementing harm-based taxation.
If you weren’t paying close attention, you’ll probably have missed the release on Monday (24th June) of the latest EU survey on tobacco and nicotine use. And that suits the European Commission just fine.
The Swedish Parliament has agreed to lower the tax on snus by 20 percent. Meanwhile, the tax on cigarettes, cigarillos, smoking tobacco, and other tobacco will rise by nine percent.
The risks of smoking are clear: cigarettes kill over half of their long-term users. The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than eight million people per year worldwide.
That headline isn’t a rhetorical question: it was what we were genuinely thinking after we watched a YouTube replay of a conference call organised by the European Cancer League.
Proposed new taxes on vapes in the UK that increase with nicotine strength could drive far riskier habits, experts have warned.
Ireland aims to become the first country in the European Union to ban smoking among under-21s.
A new landmark report - ‘No Smoke, Less Harm’ - proves that nicotine use does NOT lead to tobacco-related disease.