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Health secretary Wes Streeting is considering restricting the use of vapes outdoors in England with Chris Whitty, the country’s chief medical officer for England, said to also favour the move.
Currently there is no upper limit on the amount of nicotine allowed in pouches, a tobacco-free product that is placed between the lip and the gum.
Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, has been a leading commentator on tobacco and vaping policy since 2008, with contributions to Spiked and Filter Magazine.
A spike in black market sales of illegal vapes and fake cigarettes is funding organised crime gangs in the UK, a shock new survey has found.
Until now, there has been no excise duty on vapes in the country. Now, there will be a vape tax of 50 cents per millilitre (ml) of e-liquid. The hike is due to come into force from the middle of 2025.
Donald Trump says vapers should back him because he “saved flavoured vaping in 2019” and he will do it again. Why has the centre left decided it doesn’t want vapers in its coalition?
Sairah Salim-Sartoni has 16 years’ experience as a stop smoking advisor in the UK; first for the National Health Service and then for local authority stop smoking clinics. She went on to work for Juul Labs on scientific engagement, and now consults with both the public and private sector on smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction.
The European Union (EU)’s move to ban vaping outdoors alongside smoking “is not driven by science or what is best for public health”, a leading vape advocacy group has said.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to save flavoured vapes if re-elected.
A nationwide ban on the sale of vapes outside of pharmacies began on July 1, but illegal vapes are still widely available on the black market months later.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has signed a law that applies the fine to the offence of ‘selling tobacco products or nicotine-inhaling products at events aimed at children, or where the majority of the participants or audience are children’.
The European Commission did not disclose meetings it had with the European Network on Smoking Prevention (ENSP) to the European Ombudsman.
