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EU countries want to ban flavours in nicotine pouches at EU level

Banning online sales and restricting flavours to artificial tobacco and menthol only. This is what the Netherlands, together with Belgium and Latvia, wants to introduce for nicotine pouches and e-cigarettes at EU level.

Researchers say: "Too many smokers try to quit with ineffective methods"

Studies from the UK show that many smokers still try to quit using ineffective methods. Now researchers are speaking out. "The likelihood of success increases dramatically if you use evidence-based methods such as vejpning or other...

Who do we really want to 'protect' with restrictions on e-cigarettes?

Editorial. With all the bans and calls for restrictions on e-cigarettes, you have to stop and ask yourself: who benefits from this? And who pays the price?

Hong Kong bans vejpning - cigarette sales increase

Hong Kong joins the ranks of Asian prohibitionist countries in taking further steps to restrict the use of e-cigarettes. From mid-2026, it will be illegal to possess and use vejps in public places...

New series in Vejpkollen: Can Snickar-Ronny go smoke-free?

Carpenter Ronny Nilsson is 47 and has been smoking since middle school. Throughout his life he has made "half-hearted attempts to quit". Vejpkollen's reporter provided him with a simple starter kit to see if...

Study: Vaping does not lead to smoking among young people "Evidence to the contrary"

The common perception that vejpning is a gateway to cigarette smoking among young people is wrong. "Evidence suggests the opposite," says researcher Jamie Hartmann-Boyce.

Nicotine pouches get the go-ahead in the US "More benefits than risks"

Tobacco giant Philip Morris International, which now owns and operates under the name Swedish Match in Sweden and the United States, is booming on the stock market. This is after the company received a scientifically based green light to continue selling...