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Australia’s aggressive tobacco and vaping taxes have created a $5 billion (€2.8 billion) illicit market, which experts have branded “the worst example of bad policy in the world.”  Instead of reducing harm, the clampdown has pushed smokers and vapers towards unregulated products,…
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…
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…
Justin Bieber was spotted vaping in West Hollywood this week inside trendy French restaurant Coucou alongside wife Hailey. California has banned vaping indoors since 2016 under its workplace and public space smoking laws, but the Canadian superstar didn’t seem fazed as he…
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