taste-ban-archive

In Prohibition Finland: Children recruited to sell e-cigarettes

The black market for disposable vejps and other e-cigarettes is growing rapidly in Finland. Despite strict legislation on flavors and age limits, use among young people is skyrocketing.

Research: "Flavor bans led to increased cigarette sales"

Banning flavorings in e-cigarettes increased sales of traditional cigarettes. This is according to a new US study. "There are many indications that more young people started buying cigarettes instead of e-cigarettes," says economist Michael Pesko.

Swedish scientist: "WHO plans risk increasing smoking"

Nicotine pouches, e-cigarettes and snus should be regulated as strictly as cigarettes. This is according to the WHO Secretariat for Tobacco Control. "There is a high risk that overly stringent restrictions on harm-reducing products will lead to more smokers, rather than...

New draft law: banning the taste of heated tobacco

Heated tobacco, such as in an IQOS, will no longer be allowed to taste like anything but tobacco. This is what the government is now proposing in a draft bill, following pressure from the EU.

Smokers are helped in a vejpshop to choose the flavor and machine to quit smoking.

Advice and taste suggestions helped most smokers quit

Among smokers trying to quit with the help of vejpning, a full 55% were more likely to succeed if they also received help and advice on choosing flavors for their juices....

Norwegian vejpare and scientists try to stop the taste ban

A flavor ban and severe supply restrictions for e-cigarette users. This is what the Norwegian government proposes. Now users are calling on all of Norway's vejp users to speak out.

Markus Lindblad, Snusbolaget, calls on Swedish snus users to speak out against the EU

Warns of tax shock and taste ban on white snus

"We risk a tax shock and a taste ban for white snus. One million Swedish users should speak out." So says Snusbolaget's head of communications, Markus Lindblad, as the EU moves towards harmonized taxes on nicotine products.

He makes tobacco flavors - from pears and cinnamon

Propylene glycol, glycerine and various flavor essences offer a myriad of combinations and possibilities. In Light Your Fire's juice laboratory, they have gone the long way around and found, among other things, that...

Finland: Tobacco giant goes for tobacco-flavored e-cigs

An e-cigarette market where only one flavor is allowed and there is little competition from both vejp companies and other tobacco companies. In Finland, PMI has emerged as one of the few players actually selling...

Han vejpar in the Finland of the taste ban

Is it possible to use e-cigarettes in a country whose government is doing everything to prevent it? Vejpkollen met with Jari Ollikka, vejp user and spokesperson for the consumer association Vapers Finland.

Legislation related to e-cigs, snus, nicotine pouches and cigarettes.

Investigation into the prohibition of the sale of cigarettes, e-cigs and snus

A ban on the sale of nicotine and the possibility of special rules for the sale of nitrous oxide. A study will look at this in more detail in 2023.

Why the tobacco giants win - all the time

Stubborn and cynical lobbying by the anti-smoking lobby leads to e-cigarettes being taken over completely by the tobacco companies. And smokers continue to die.