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Nicotine debate: Want a ban on drug dealing and ID checks in smoking areas

Intergenerational ban on tobacco purchases. ID checks in the smoking area to stop minors from using cigarettes. Exposure bans and a ban on repairing tobacco products. These are some of the proposals on the table when the Swedish Parliament...

SD: "Introduce harm reduction in tobacco policy"

A better investigation into the relative risks of different nicotine products and a new framework for managing tobacco and nicotine products. This is what the Sweden Democrats are now proposing ahead of the upcoming debate on ANDTS issues in the Social Affairs Committee.

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.

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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Nicotine debate: Want a ban on drug dealing and ID checks in smoking areas

SD: "Introduce harm reduction in tobacco policy"

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

Ireland skips tax increase on e-juice

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

Brottsyndikat styr nikotinhandeln – ”Folk slutar inte röka på grund av höga skatter”

Sweden's agenda for WHO meeting on snus, nicotine pouches and e-cigs kept secret

Foundation For a Smoke Free World breaks with Phillip Morris

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

Activists mobilise for WHO tobacco meeting in Panama