Smoke-free country archive

Store manager: "We need to educate vejpers away from disposable models"

Christian "Cristo" El-Hage may be a new store manager at Ecigg City, but he's quite an old hand at vejpgam. He sticks his neck out and says he'd rather see disposable vejps disappear...

Curiosity drove Victoria to vejpningen - and life-changing changes

Victoria Gillberg describes herself as curious. So curious, in fact, that when she found vejpningen and took a deep dive - it led all the way to becoming smoke-free, a job and a...

A vejping pioneer with a thousand irons in the fire

Steve Tasker was one of the first, maybe even the very first, to sell e-cigs in Sweden. In 2009 he opened his shop in Stockholm and is filled to the brim with...

Neither snus nor vejpar - but runs Stockholm's most nicotine shop

The Zielkowski family started the first Nikoteket many years ago at home in Söderköping, and when it came time to expand the business, Liam, who had just come of age, had to pack his bags and move...

Electronic cigarettes popular in the electric city

In the industrial city that electrified the country, former snuffers and smokers are switching to the battery-powered vapour. Mathias Norman steers the ship in Västerås' now only vejpshop. And where it should feel familiar to step ...

Smoking in Sweden at record low levels - "Not due to prohibition"

Smoking in Sweden is at record low levels. At the same time, the proportion of people using smokeless nicotine products is increasing. This is shown by new statistics from the Public Health Agency of Sweden on Swedes' lifestyles.

From smoking coughs and burnout to e-cigs and vejp companies

Despite its relatively small size, Uddevalla is one of Sweden's better towns for vejp users. There are two competing specialist e-cigarette shops here. Behind the till in the slightly larger of the two...

Awarded best tobacco shop - "Best margin on e-cigs and white snus"

Smoke-free nicotine products such as e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches were in the spotlight when convenience companies presented awards for success in everyday retail in early autumn.

The quest for apple pie created a liquid miracle

The search for a damn good apple pie gave Thomas Dallmann a lasting hobby - which in turn generated a thriving business and a welcome extra income. Vejpkollen meets the Tranemobo behind the Liquid e-juice...

Harm reduction in the welfare state - Inside the head of a snuff general

With almost ten years in the snus industry, Patrik Strömer has a lot to do in a charged debate that has suddenly flared up. A 200-year-old cultural product has suddenly turned into tobacco harm reduction on the world stage. Vejpkollen takes...

Taping changed Ana's life - both personally and professionally.

Ana Georgieva Zlatkova was in her mid-10s, fresh out of a gruelling job in a meat factory, chain-smoking and generally feeling miserable. Today, cigarettes have been replaced by e-cigs and she runs the company "My...

From smoker to corporate gazelle in the 1TP8 world

Lidköping resident Michael Fredén has managed to combine a passion for business with his interest in vejpning - and now he has hit a home run.