Smoke-free country archive

No smoke from the match town's only vejp shop

In Jönköping, scissors, e-juices and vapes come together at the same address. Behind the initiative are hairdresser Eddie Mourad and 1TP8 enthusiast Casper Sandström - who run a perhaps odd, but well-functioning, collaboration in "Småland's Jerusalem".

10 months with vejp for Snickar-Ronny

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.

An epic conference, some reality and the eternal popcorn lung

Chronicle. Sweden is usually held up as a good example of how the use of nicotine can shift from smoking to non-smoking. A visit to the duty-free shop at Landvetter airport illustrates how this has happened...

Vapes, toilet paper and detergent - an odd combo in Gothenburg

Fredric Corneliusson stumbled into vejpning through the back door. The dandelion child from Frölunda, Sweden, sees himself more as an entrepreneur who happened to end up in an exciting industry - than an outright e-cigarette activist. But now...

"The flavour ban in Denmark is the best thing that happened to us"

Ångfabriken in Malmö is run by father and son Troedsson - but mostly the younger version, Dennis, these days. The father usually stays away from the shop on Föreningsgatan, even though he is still the majority owner.

The multi-entrepreneur who had enough and "settled" for vejp sales

Arberd Lalicic has been selling e-cigarettes online since 2010. But as the financially secure multi-entrepreneur he is, that's not the most important thing. He wants to help smokers quit. As he himself...

New series in Vejpkollen: Can Snickar-Ronny go smoke-free?

Carpenter Ronny Nilsson is 47 and has been smoking since middle school. Throughout his life he has made "half-hearted attempts to quit". Vejpkollen's reporter provided him with a simple starter kit to see if...

Store manager: “We need to educate vejpers away from disposable models”

Christian "Cristo" El-Hage may be a new store manager at Ecigg City, but he's quite an old hand at vejpgam. He sticks his neck out and says he'd rather see disposable vejps disappear...

Curiosity drove Victoria to vejpningen - and life-changing changes

Victoria Gillberg describes herself as curious. So curious, in fact, that when she found vejpningen and took a deep dive - it led all the way to becoming smoke-free, a job and a...

A vejping pioneer with a thousand irons in the fire

Steve Tasker was one of the first, maybe even the very first, to sell e-cigs in Sweden. In 2009 he opened his shop in Stockholm and is filled to the brim with...

Neither snus nor vejpar - but runs Stockholm's most nicotine shop

The Zielkowski family started the first Nikoteket many years ago at home in Söderköping, and when it came time to expand the business, Liam, who had just come of age, had to pack his bags and move...

Electronic cigarettes popular in the electric city

In the industrial city that electrified the country, former snuffers and smokers are switching to the battery-powered vapour. Mathias Norman steers the ship in Västerås' now only vejpshop. And where it should feel familiar to step ...