News and debate on nicotine, e-cigs and snus

Use among young people doubled - after taste ban in Denmark

"EU wants to increase tax on nicotine pouches by 500%"

Different 1TP8 laws had an effect on smoking in Australia and New Zealand

Public health authority stops sales of 'NoNic' and 'Metatine'

Bulgaria mulls vejp ban - but disposable models at risk

Criticism of e-cig study "Researchers don't know how vaping works"

Absurdly high nicotine levels. Incorrectly adjusted devices and apparent ignorance of how e-cigarettes work. The latest study on the risks of e-cigarettes from Danderyd Hospital has been heavily criticised. "Luckily no one got hurt"

Smuggling greatly reduced after the availability of nicotine pouches

Finland. The smuggling of nicotine pouches and snus has decreased dramatically in Finland. This is after nicotine pouches became legal to buy in ordinary shops. The online magazine YLE reports

Warning: "EU wants to ban white snus - also in Sweden"

EU health bureaucrats want to ban white snus, i.e. nicotine products, in all EU countries, including Sweden. This is what Charlie Weimers, a member of the European Parliament, says after reading a leaked report commissioned by the European Commission...

Mirza, 46, vejpare: "The hardest part was finding the right flavour and feel"

He lit his first cigarette when he was 17. The last one when he was 41. Mirza Kadrovic is one of the many thousands of former smokers in Sweden who now use nicotine on ...

Editorial: "E-cigs are unnecessary nonsense" she said angrily

OPINION. The social democratic opposition to harm minimisation and new nicotine products is very clear. And quite strange. Vejpkollen's editor-in-chief met Karin Sundin (s), a health politician in the Social Committee. It went like this.

Rumours of ban on single-use models shake the UK

A debate about disposable vapes has flared up in the promised land of e-cigarettes, the UK. Youth use is on the rise and environmental issues are at the centre of the debate. At the same time, health and addiction experts warn of the consequences of an ill-considered ban.