The Dutch government has rejected plans for a national ban on disposable vapes, warning that such a move would be legally uncertain and should instead be dealt with at EU level.
The decision means the Netherlands will not push ahead with new…
EurActiv reported yesterday that the French nationalist-right party, the Front National, might abstain from a vote in the European Parliament tomorrow on the EU tobacco tax revision. If they do, the report will probably fall, and there are conflicting reports about what…
On the surface, the UK’s disposable vape ban appears to have worked.
Among 11 to 17-year-olds who vape, the share saying they mainly use disposables has fallen from 42 per cent in 2025 to 13 per cent in 2026, according to YouGov…
A new PLOS One study found only 21.4% of healthcare providers and trainees recognised vapes as less harmful than combustible cigarettes.
Most participants, 60.2%, believed vapes were just as harmful or more harmful than smoking.
The study also found widespread confusion about…
A tiny archipelago with a population of just 18,000, has asked the UN to put nicotine on the same list as crystal meth, ecstasy and the date-rape drug GHB in an audacious move co-ordinated by European tobacco control bigwigs.
Palau - a…
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Sweden has blocked an EU tobacco tax plan that critics warned would punish the smoke-free products behind the country’s sharp fall in smoking.
The move turns Sweden’s smoke-free success into a direct challenge to Brussels, coming just days after the European Parliament…
I was interviewed for the European Correspondent at last week’s Global Forum on Nicotine, which I assume will publish the usual “Big Tobacco Stooges” style hit piece on us at some point. The journalist (who asked me not to mention their name)…
I was born in 1963 which technically makes me a Baby Boomer but I certainly wasn’t experiencing the scene at Woodstock. I have referred to those born in the early 60s under a generational subset known as “Generation AIDS”. I was coming…