The latest reporting on nicotine policy, public health and the people affected.
The research, published in the scientific journal BMC Medicine and funded by Cancer Research UK, found that a rise in vaping over the last decade has largely been driven by people using vapes to quit smoking.
The ban is part of the new ‘Anti-Tobacco Plan,’ which aims to limit products that cause a risk to young people’s health and are a ‘gateway’ to smoking.
The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, compared respiratory symptoms among adults who vape - but crucially, have never been regular smokers - with those who have never smoked or vaped.
Under the new legislation, announced by the Ministry of Health, vapes and their packaging will no longer be allowed to be on display in general retail shops. This includes advertising and display in online stores and in automated vending machines.
Sir Christopher Chope pointed to the government’s own impact assessment report, which found that as many as 29 per cent of current vapers could be driven back into smoking as a result of the ban.
The paper, published in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research by Oxford University Press, observed a group of adult smokers in the U.S. who had reported a baseline cough or wheeze.
The 33-year-old Irish beauty is expected to be a late entrant to the jungle camp along with Reverend Richard Coles.
The EU’s proposals to ban vaping in all public spaces “lack a robust scientific basis” and “should not have been included” in the European Commission’s proposal for Smoke Free Environments
The South African government has drafted a new Tobacco Bill that aims to put vaping on a par with smoking in how it is regulated.
With more than 5,800 pharmacies across the country, the data - shown to the Senate last week - suggests thousands of them would not have dispensed a single vape.
The data, released by Sweden’s public health agency today, shows that just 4.5 per cent of Swedish-born adults now smoke - well under the globally recognised benchmark of five per cent to achieve smoke free status.
It’s been a while since we collected that latest prohibitionist fails on X. But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been any recently. The disinformation scene has been alive and kicking, and we thought it was about time we shone a light on it again.
