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EU Commissioner under fire for smoke-free nicotine statement

EU health commissioner Olivér Várhelyi is heavily criticised after claiming that smokeless nicotine products are as harmful as cigarettes. The statement is questioned by scientists and provokes strong reactions. Olivér Várhelyi is now accused of...

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Fierce EU battle on smoke-free nicotine ahead of WHO tobacco meeting - Sweden on the frontline

EU member states are on a collision course ahead of the secret WHO tobacco meeting. Sweden has a crucial role to play, but experts warn of the risks of compromise. "Don't let the prohibitionists get an inch"

Ireland introduces new tax on e-liquid: “Makes it harder to quit smoking”

The Irish government is introducing a new excise duty on e-liquid. The tax is expected to increase the price for consumers by the equivalent of €5 per millilitre of e-liquid.

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France: 130,000 in protest against new tax on e-juice

”Don't kill the vejp”. A petition against the French government's plans to tax e-liquid, ban online sales and effectively equate vejp products with smoking tobacco, has gathered over 130,000 signatures in just three months.

How Danish Gejser became the biggest in flavour-banned Denmark

From home-bought e-cigarettes sold in the harbour, to becoming Denmark's largest vejp chain, via flavour bans and competition with the black market. Vejpkollen crosses the strait and checks out how Gejser mastered...

Finnish vejprazzia: 90 fined at festival

The fact that vejpning has become a red flag for Finnish authorities became clear during the major music festival Ruisrock in Turku. Nearly 90 people were fined - for vaping on e-cigarettes.

Small business owners: “Defend all harm reduction - not just bags”

The Swedish government must fight EU taxes on nicotine-free e-liquid as hard as it defends nicotine pouches. This is the view of Swedish e-juice manufacturers as the EU's tax proposal is now out for consultation.

EU proposes new excise duties on nicotine pouches and nicotine-free e-liquid

The biggest EU budget in history so far will be partly paid for by new taxes. Not just on big business, but also through revenue from new EU-led excise duties on smokeless nicotine products. It says...

Finance Minister: “EU tax proposal on nicotine pouches completely unacceptable”

The battle for white snus is heating up in the EU, at least when it comes to taxes on the popular Swedish nicotine product. A current EU proposal would increase the tax and thus the price...

EU: Nicotine tax on nicotine-free liquids and 600% tax increase on pouches

Is your e-liquid nicotine-free? Or are you trying to cut down on nicotine? It doesn't matter according to the EU - a new proposal could make your e-juice six times more expensive. Decisions are now approaching on...

Government takes on the EU - challenging France's ban

The Swedish government halts the French ban on nicotine pouches. At least temporarily. After Kammarkollegiet proposed a strong protest due to apparent barriers to trade in the EU area, the government is now going ahead and submitting...

Sweden stops Spain's pouch plans - “Smoking is a major health hazard”

"Nicotine pouches are not health products, and that is why we in Sweden have regulated them. But in a situation where smoking is allowed, nicotine pouches should also be allowed," says Minister for Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa regarding...