When it comes to taxing reduced-harm products, is the EU prioritizing public health, or just ignoring its own rules?
We recently sat down with former EU tax official Donato Raponi, at the inaugural World Nicotine Congress, to unpack the complex and often…
Spain’s two main political parties have reached a rare agreement to restrict where vapes and nicotine pouches can be sold, in a move aimed at tightening control over access and distribution.
The Popular Party (PP) and Socialist Party (PSOE) backed a non-binding…
Swedish Socialists in the European Parliament have demanded that MEPs not travel to Strasbourg while French law levies potential five year prison terms for anyone found in possession of nicotine pouches. The French plan was first reported by Clearing the Air.
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My sources in Brussels tell me that the European Commission’s report on how well its tobacco laws are doing should drop early spring. Maybe even as soon as March. This will be the starting gun in a race to overhaul the bloc’s…
ANSES says vaping’s health effects are not of equivalent severity to those caused by tobacco
Risks from vaping remain lower than those associated with smoking
No tumours identified in people who vape
Exposure to key toxic compounds reduced by 80% to nearly…
A majority of French smokers are now sourcing tobacco and vaping products outside traditional retail channels, with many turning to cross-border shopping or illicit markets as prices increase, according to a new national survey.
The Ifop study of 3,000 smokers and vapers…
A tightly controlled webinar that excluded many consumer voices has mounted a sharp attack on Sweden’s world-leading record on smoking reduction - dismissing the role of safer nicotine products and questioning the science behind harm reduction.
The closed-door forum, Sweden: Setting it…
A quarter of vapers in France say they would return to smoking if proposed restrictions under Article 23 of the draft 2026 finance bill are enacted, a new survey shows.
A new survey by OpinionWay for FIVAPE reveals that weakening access to…
A WHO-backed analysis found teenagers were more likely to use non-combustible nicotine products than cigarettes in 31 of 57 countries studied
Public health authorities say vaping is substantially less harmful than smoking, because it avoids tobacco combustion
Long-term projections show teen cigarette…
