Adults on low incomes found vapes and nicotine pouches highly convenient, allowing them to manage cravings in places where smoking is impossible.
Both products significantly reduced cigarette use among participants, with some reporting they no longer craved cigarettes at all.
Many participants…
Poland’s Ministry of Health has proposed legislation that would outlaw all disposable vapes - including nicotine-free products - under a broad amendment to the country’s tobacco laws.
The draft bill, UD213, aims to curb youth nicotine use and address health and environmental…
Youth vaping in New Zealand has fallen sharply, with new national data showing regular use has halved in just two years. The findings come from the latest ASH Year 10 Snapshot Survey, which polls more than 30,000 students each year.
It’s a…
At a European Parliament hearing last week, the Smoke-Free Partnership (SFP) told MEPs that 29 per cent of Swedish 17-year-old students currently use oral nicotine products.
The figure was used to challenge Sweden’s harm-reduction strategy - the same strategy that has helped…
New Zealand - which has some of the world’s lowest smoking rates and highest cigarette taxes - has been given the “dirty ashtray” award by the Global Alliance on Tobacco Control (GATC) in a move that brings into stark focus just how…
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EU Member States have today agreed not to push for bans on safer nicotine products at the WHO’s bi-annual tobacco control summit, COP 11, after a large group of countries refused to accept the Commission’s…
France’s planned ban on nicotine pouches from next spring could be in jeopardy after a series of amendments were tabled in the National Assembly aimed at softening or replacing the measure.
The prohibition, due to take effect in March 2026, is part…
Nicotine vapes help more people quit smoking than nicotine replacement therapies such as patches or gum
People using nicotine vapes are also more likely to quit than those using non-nicotine vapes or no support at all
Rates of side effects and serious…
UPDATE - 3rd November 2025 - we've now seen the version of the paper that will be discussed by EU Ambassadors on Wednesday. Possible bans on safer nicotine products are still part of the text.
When EU negotiations go late into the…
