Ireland skips tax hike on e-juice
A planned new tax that would make life a little more sour for 1TP8 smokers has now been scuppered in Ireland. Authorities fear it would reduce the number of smokers who quit.
News and debate on nicotine, e-cigs and snus
Leaving Australia after e-cigarette ban
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...
From smoker to corporate gazelle in the world of 1TP8
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.
Report the Ministry to the Ombudsman - "Lack of transparency on nicotine pouches and the EU"
Why is the Ministry of Social Affairs concealing what it has said and thought about nicotine pouches, e-cigarettes and snus from the European Commission? This is the question asked by Samuel Lundell and the Snusarnas Riskförbund, who have now reported the Ministry to the Parliamentary Ombudsman.
Government: "Worrying for trade freedom when countries ban nicotine pouches"
The Government is concerned that free movement is adversely affected when individual Member States introduce total bans on nicotine pouches. This is what Minister for Development Cooperation and Trade Johan Forssell (m) writes regarding the recent debate on nicotine pouches...
Anti-vejp group spread message during WHO conference - vejpare thrown out
Weed activists and anti-tobacco fanatics. Committed 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...
Brottsyndikat styr nikotinhandeln – ”Folk slutar inte röka på grund av höga skatter”
In a short time, cigarette sales in Panama have fallen to record lows. But that is a truth with modification. Neither demand nor availability has decreased, only legal trade. This is according to the organization Crime...
Ban or opportunity? New nicotine products a key issue for the Tobacco Convention
E-cigarettes, but also other smokeless nicotine products, will be the focus of the tenth meeting of the Tobacco Convention. And among the 183 countries participating in the meeting, opinions are very divided on how to proceed...
Tobacco farmers protested outside the tobacco convention meeting
Tobacco farmers, who grow tobacco for cigars, protested on Monday outside the Tobacco Control Convention conference in Panama. The message? There are different forms of tobacco use and cigars, unlike cigarettes, are not products that...
Sound engineer, vejpare and aspiring smoke machine
Sound engineer and vejper Micke Thenor travels around the country behind the mixing desks of all kinds of artists. A life that involves late nights and stints as an effect creator: "A vejp is really the same thing as...
Sweden's agenda for WHO meeting on snus, nicotine pouches and e-cigs kept secret
The secrecy surrounding the upcoming meeting on the Tobacco Convention, COP10, is causing concern among many Swedes. Not least among those who use or work with smokeless nicotine products such as snus and e-cigarettes.
Debate: "The government must explain itself to Sweden's 1.4 million snus users ahead of the WHO meeting"
DEBATE: The EU is covering up its position on snus and white snus ahead of the WHO COP10 conference in Panama. But what are our parliamentary politicians actually doing? Bengt Wiberg, innovator and founder of the consumer network #EUforSnus
