vejpshoppar archive

After the fall of Cigge - Parent company Harm Reduction Group goes under

It started with Eurobrands Distribution and Ciggebutikerna in Sweden. Now the parent company Harm Reduction Group is also filing for bankruptcy. This was announced by the HRG board in a press release on Tuesday.

How Sweden's largest e-cig chain crashed - in just a few hours

Sweden's largest e-cig chain, with 7 physical stores in central Sweden and thousands of customers, is no more. All but two Cigge stores closed with immediate effect on 14 January 2025.

The biochemist who opened a nicotine shop in Soho

Vape and white snuff are big business in London. And in the heart of the city's most central area, Soho, is the 'Soho Vapes' shop where actors, musicians and film people queue with restaurant workers and tourists to...

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...

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 ...

Omar Sabih is Kinna's own stop-smoking doctor

Omar has travelled from Lebanon to Mark municipality to become something of a quit-smoking guru in Kinna. Not only does he sell vejp products in his shop in the small municipality, but he also...

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...

Vejp shop forced to stop online sales - "Absurd"

Following a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency, Arcane Vape was forced to remove all sales of age-restricted products from its website. The reason was so-called deficiencies in the control of age at delivery.

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 Today, cigarettes have been replaced by e-cigs and she runs the company "My...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.

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...

Håkan, 48, ex-smoker: "It is very important that e-cigs are available everywhere cigarettes are"

Snuff and cigarettes have long been a natural part of Håkan Friedrich's life. Almost 40 years after his first puff, the cigarettes have been replaced by e-cigs and the snus by citrus-flavoured nicotine pouches.