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.
India's government banned e-cigarettes in 2019 with the aim of eliminating them from the market. Five years later, the reality in the big-smoking country seems to reflect something else - e-cigs are still very much available, just in a slightly more creative distribution chain. Many users don't even seem to realise that there is a ban.
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.
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.
Australia and New Zealand have taken diametrically different approaches to the regulation of vejp products. Prohibition and pharmacy sales versus authorised sales in shops. Now a team of researchers from institutions in both countries has compared the approaches and tried to draw conclusions about the impact on cigarette smoking.
