Ireland skips tax increase on e-juice
A planned new tax designed to make life a little more pleasant for smokers has now been scrapped in Ireland. Authorities fear that it would lead to fewer people quitting smoking.
Tag: nicotine
Reporting the Ministry to the Ombudsman - "Lack of transparency on nicotine pouches and the EU"
Why is the Ministry of Social Affairs covering up what it has said and thought about nicotine pouches, e-cigarettes and snus to the European Commission? This is what Samuel Lundell and the Snusarnas Riskförbund are asking, and they have now reported the Ministry to the Parliamentary Ombudsman.
Government: "Worrying for freedom of trade when countries ban nicotine pouches"
The Government is concerned that free movement is negatively affected when individual Member States introduce a total ban on nicotine pouches. This is what Minister for Development Cooperation and Trade Johan Forssell (m) writes about the recent debate on nicotine pouches ...
Anti-vejp group spreads message at WHO conference - vejpers ejected
Weather activists and anti-tobacco fanatics. Dedicated addiction researchers and prohibitionists. All gathered in Panama City to attend, monitor and comment on the tenth meeting of the WHO Tobacco Convention, COP10. Vejpkollen took the pulse of two movements fighting...
Crime syndicates control the nicotine trade in Panama - "People don't stop smoking because of high taxes"
In a short time, cigarette sales in Panama have fallen to record lows. But this is a truth with a twist. Neither demand nor availability has decreased, only legal trade. This is according to the organisation Crime...
Sweden's agenda for WHO meeting on snus, nicotine pouches and e-cigs kept secret
The secrecy surrounding the upcoming meeting of the Convention on Tobacco Control (COP10) is causing concern among many Swedes. Not least among those who use or work with smoke-free nicotine products such as snus and e-cigarettes.
Foundation For a Smoke Free World breaks with Phillip Morris
The Foundation for a smoke free world has undergone a change of management and is cancelling all its previous contracts with the tobacco industry.
Norway bans flavours in e-cigarettes - but nicotine pouches survive
Norway prohibits all flavourings in vejp products. The exception is so-called 'tobacco flavours'. The ban applies regardless of whether the e-liquid contains nicotine or not. "It's absolutely absurd." says activist Frank Tinmansvik.
Activists mobilise for WHO tobacco meeting in Panama
"The WHO focuses more on e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches than on discouraging cigarette use. They don't care about protecting the alternatives that can improve smokers' health," said Lindsay Stroud, Tax Payers...
Inveterate smokers prefer e-cigs to snus and medicines
Among Norwegians who still smoke, e-cigarettes probably have the greatest potential to reduce smoking. Traditional nicotine medicines, on the other hand, are not very popular. This is according to a new study by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
Amanda, 25 - "I got rid of the really dangerous thing, smoking"
Story: She is 25 years old and has been using nicotine since her early teens. Amanda Seguel started as a smoker, but soon switched to vejping and nicotine pouches. "Right now I don't actually use...
Study: Young people talk about vejpning, smoking and nicotine use
Trendy and cool. But isn't it just as dangerous as smoking? Young people who vejpake and smoke regularly have many conflicting opinions about e-cigarettes and smoking. This is according to a study where young people...
