The latest reporting on nicotine policy, public health and the people affected.
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed a rule to limit nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels six years after it first said it intended to do so and five days before President Biden leaves office.
The ban - which was implemented on Sunday December 15 - follows recent amendments to the island country’s Tobacco Control Act. These were signed into law by President Mohamed Muizzu on November 13.
The new legislation, announced by the Ministry of Health, means the “manufacture, sale, supply, and distribution of disposable vapes” will be banned from June 2025.
After coming into power in July, Sir Keir Starmer’s party moved swiftly to pass a ban on disposable vapes. This will take effect from June 1, 2025.
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 Senate in Mexico yesterday voted unanimously to pass the reform, which will ban the production, distribution and sale of all types of vapes.
Northern Ireland, Wales and Jersey have confirmed they will enforce a ban on disposable vapes from June 1, 2025 in line with the rest of the UK.
The nations, led by the Netherlands, have asked the European Commission to propose a new law in the coming months that will bring vaping under the same tax legislation as tobacco.
Lower house lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to change the country’s constitution to include a ban on vapes as well as synthetic drugs such as fentanyl.
Government data shows that this year, 318 out of 1,781 retailers checked by the authorities did not comply with the ban. This resulted in 3,273 packets being seized.
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).
