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Vaping leads to more successful smoking cessation in England

A new UK study shows clear links between the rise in e-cigarette use and increasing numbers of successful quit attempts at the population level.

Health Minister sets tone for harm reduction ahead of new EU rules

Minister of Health Jakob Forssmed is now entering the debate on nicotine pouches and harm minimisation. "I would like to emphasise that compared to snus, cigarettes and smoking tobacco pose a relatively greater health risk."

Ireland skips tax increase on e-juice

A planned new tax designed to make life a little more pleasant for smokers has now been scrapped in Ireland. Authorities fear that it would lead to fewer people quitting smoking.

Leaving Australia after ban on e-cigarettes

Australian youtuber and vejp celebrity "Vaping Bogan" has decided to leave his home country due to the government's ban on the sale and import of e-cigarettes. His followers are now crowdfunding money for...

Reporting the Ministry to the Ombudsman - "Lack of transparency on nicotine pouches and the EU"

Why is the Ministry of Social Affairs covering up what it has said and thought about nicotine pouches, e-cigarettes and snus to the European Commission? This is what Samuel Lundell and the Snusarnas Riskförbund are asking, and they have now reported the Ministry to the Parliamentary Ombudsman.

Government: "Worrying for freedom of trade when countries ban nicotine pouches"

The Government is concerned that free movement is negatively affected when individual Member States introduce a total ban on nicotine pouches. This is what Minister for Development Cooperation and Trade Johan Forssell (m) writes about the recent debate on nicotine pouches ...

Anti-vejp group spreads message at WHO conference - vejpers ejected

Weather activists and anti-tobacco fanatics. Dedicated addiction researchers and prohibitionists. All gathered in Panama City to attend, monitor and comment on the tenth meeting of the WHO Tobacco Convention, COP10. Vejpkollen took the pulse of two movements fighting...

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Vaping leads to more successful smoking cessation in England

Health Minister sets tone for harm reduction ahead of new EU rules

Ireland skips tax increase on e-juice

Leaving Australia after ban on e-cigarettes

Reporting the Ministry to the Ombudsman - "Lack of transparency on nicotine pouches and the EU"

Government: "Worrying for freedom of trade when countries ban nicotine pouches"

Anti-vejp group spreads message at WHO conference - vejpers ejected

Crime syndicates control the nicotine trade - "People don't stop smoking because of high taxes"

Ban or opportunity? New nicotine products a sticking point for the Tobacco Convention

Tobacco farmers protested outside tobacco convention meeting

UK government bans disposable vejps - opens up for flavour ban

Study: "Vejps and nicotine patches safe to use for smoking cessation in pregnancy"