Do you remember Ronny? The smoking carpenter who, after 30+ years of bumming and half-assed attempts to quit, was given a vejpkit to see how it would go. Here comes the follow-up.
Another municipality has decided to ban its staff from using nicotine, including snus, during working hours. The newspaper Göteborgs-Posten reports. According to the local council, the policy applies to teachers and school staff who are supposed to be "role models" by not showing that they use nicotine. Recently, Mariestad municipality passed a similar policy.
The ban on single-use guns in the UK has been in place for a few days, but the effects started to be felt even before 1 June. Thousands of UK users were stocking up like crazy, while shops were selling out. "They're banning a product that actually helped me quit smoking," says Claire Fox.
In country after country that has introduced laws against vejp products, an exploding black market is emerging in the wake of the bans. Now a UK study shows that the decision to ban disposable vejp there could drive as many as a third of users to trade illegally instead.
The UK national 'Swap 2 Stop' programme continues to spread across the country. The plan is to offer free e-cigs to one million smokers through community stop-smoking centres. Now the reports are starting to come in.
