E-cigarettes and vaping in Sweden

Government clarifies guidelines for harm minimisation

The government clarifies the importance of emphasising the relative risks between different nicotine products in the study preceding the next ANDTS strategy.

Chronicle: "Tobacco and harm minimisation, an illogical impossibility?"

OPINION. Our authorities claim that harm minimisation for smokers does not work, and that the decline in the Swedish smoking rate is due to our generous paternity leave. Yes, that is actually what they have said.

Legislation related to e-cigs, snus, nicotine pouches and cigarettes.

Study on banning the distribution of cigarettes, e-cigs and snus

A ban on the sale of nicotine and the possibility of special rules for the sale of nitrous oxide. A study will look into this in 2023.

"The laws created the black market for disposable weapons"

"We've been warning about this for a long time now. It's good that someone else sees it too. Now the politicians must react more wisely than they have done before," says NNA Sweden's chairman Karl-Åke Johansson about the...

Police: "Young people acquire e-cigs from criminal circles"

The use of e-cigarettes is increasing among minors, especially the so-called disposable models. But it is not the use itself that is of primary concern to the police. It is the way young people...

Many outraged by SVT's report "It's distorted"

Following SVT's report on young people and vaping, reactions from vaping enthusiasts and business owners have been pouring in on Facebook. "It is better for young people to vape instead of smoking tobacco" writes one...

Warning about the black market after SVT programme

Young people like vejpar were in the spotlight when SVT Västerbotten highlighted the recent increase in disposable weapons among young people in Umeå. "We see a black market emerging very quickly" warned vejp entrepreneur Niklas Linder.

Licences for nicotine and e-cigarettes: what's involved?

Disposable vapes, highly concentrated nicotine salts, some nicotine caps and ready-to-use e-liquids. These are products that require authorisation to be sold over the counter. But how does it work in reality?

Mateo Lozano, 21, opened a vape shop in Karlskrona, Sweden. Amidst the debate on flavour bans and young people using e-cigarettes.

"I am the generation politicians worry about"

20 years old. Photographer and filmmaker Mateo Lozano quit smoking with the help of e-cigarettes. He now runs a vape shop in the centre of Karlskrona.

"Harm minimisation is a human right"

"It's about the right to a healthier life, no matter what bad choices you've made in the past." says Atakan Befrits, an activist who wants to give smokers alternatives.

20-year-old suspected of selling e-cigs illegally

A 20-year-old man in Östersund is suspected of violating the Tobacco Act after police found nearly 100 e-cigarettes in his apartment.

Helen Stjera and the Non Smoking Generation want to ban nicotine for everyone born after 2010.

Swedish organisations want to ban nicotine - across the EU

A Non Smoking Generation, the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association, Tobaksfakta, the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation and several other Swedish interest groups want to ban all sales of nicotine. At least to people born after 2010.

Category: E-cigs in Sweden

Vaping and e-cigarettes in Sweden

Government clarifies guidelines for harm minimisation

Chronicle: "Tobacco and harm minimisation, an illogical impossibility?"

Study on banning the distribution of cigarettes, e-cigs and snus

"The laws created the black market for disposable weapons"

Police: "Young people acquire e-cigs from criminal circles"

Many outraged by SVT's report "It's distorted"

Warning about the black market after SVT programme

Licences for nicotine and e-cigarettes: what's involved?

"I am the generation politicians worry about"

"Harm minimisation is a human right"

20-year-old suspected of selling e-cigs illegally

Swedish organisations want to ban nicotine - across the EU