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Young people vejpook unknown substance - emergency hospitalisation

Four people in their early teens have been taken to hospital after inhaling an unknown drug via vejpning. This is reported by Sveriges Radio Medelpad.

Vejpshoppar not allowed to link to their website anymore - "As if our name is toxic"

Companies selling e-cigarettes are no longer allowed to link to their website via social media or email. This has become clear after the Swedish Consumer Agency criticised the company eSmokes for violating the rules on marketing in the...

Fighting for harm minimisation in the EU - "Risk of a ban on nicotine pouches this spring"

Persistent reports, albeit unconfirmed by official sources, suggest that the availability of smokeless nicotine products, such as white snus, may be severely restricted. If the EU Commission gets its way.

Foundation For a Smoke Free World breaks with Phillip Morris

The Foundation for a smoke free world has undergone a change of management and is cancelling all its previous contracts with the tobacco industry.

Young people after flavour ban: "I'd rather buy cigarettes"

Since 1 January, shops in the Netherlands have been prohibited from selling e-cigarettes that do not taste of tobacco and smoke essence. Young people are getting vapes on Snapchat or buying cigarettes instead. "If only it can...

Norway bans flavours in e-cigarettes - but nicotine pouches survive

Norway prohibits all flavourings in vejp products. The exception is so-called 'tobacco flavours'. The ban applies regardless of whether the e-liquid contains nicotine or not. "It's absolutely absurd." says activist Frank Tinmansvik.

The infected debate on nicotine use - how does it affect you?

The health risks of smokeless nicotine products are significantly lower than those of smoking and cigarettes. But that doesn't matter. It is not a genuine concern about the risk of harm that lies behind bans or...

Not an uncommon sight - shops are fronting e-cigs - and now cigarette sales are declining in favour of e-cigs. snus and nicotine pouches.

E-cigs and pouches take centre stage as cigarette sales decline

Fewer Swedes are buying cigarettes. But the more nicotine pouches and vejps. CAN states this in your latest report on nicotine sales in Sweden. "Cigarettes will disappear. Politicians and authorities can now either...

Activists mobilise for WHO tobacco meeting in Panama

"The WHO focuses more on e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches than on discouraging cigarette use. They don't care about protecting the alternatives that can improve smokers' health," said Lindsay Stroud, Tax Payers...

"I will never smoke again" - Stories from Sweden

How do Swedes stay smoke-free? That's the question Vejpkollen asks in a series of reports on nicotine use in Sweden - a country that is becoming smoke-free.

Inveterate smokers prefer e-cigs to snus and medicines

Among Norwegians who still smoke, e-cigarettes probably have the greatest potential to reduce smoking. Traditional nicotine medicines, on the other hand, are not very popular. This is according to a new study by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Amanda Seguel, nicotine pouches and e-cigs

Amanda, 25 - "I got rid of the really dangerous thing, smoking"

Story: She is 25 years old and has been using nicotine since her early teens. Amanda Seguel started as a smoker, but soon switched to vejping and nicotine pouches. "Right now I don't actually use...