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Tax increase would reduce vejpanding in China - but made more people start smoking

When China raised taxes on e-cigarettes, the aim was to reduce vejpa. A recent follow-up study also shows that use actually decreased. However, the price was that smoking increased among the same people,...

Prohibition on paper - millions of vejpar anyway in Mexico

Mexico is tightening the law against vejp products. New amendments to the country's federal health law now criminalise the entire commercial handling - from production to advertising - with penalties of up to eight years in prison.

Taxpayers pressures government in nicotine tax battle

“Swedish snus users should not have to pay SEK 70 for a can of white snus” This is the opinion of the Taxpayers' Association, which is now entering the debate on the EU's proposal for a new tax on smokeless...

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New European study: Road users have fewer respiratory symptoms than smokers

A major new study from Scotland shows that people who use e-cigarettes, without smoking regular cigarettes, report fewer respiratory symptoms than cigarette smokers. At the same time, there is no statistically significant difference between vejp users and...

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COP11: New Zealand cut smoking rates in half - highlights e-cigarettes as key

New Zealand has reduced smoking to historically low levels by combining tough tobacco legislation with harm reduction measures and regulated access to e-cigarettes. This was reported by the country's Ministry of Health during COP11 and the negotiations on the future...

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Majority of smokers believe e-cigarettes are as dangerous as cigarettes - ”A lie that costs lives”

More and more people wrongly believe that vejping is as dangerous as cigarette smoking - or even worse. This is according to new opinion data from the UK.

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How long can you hold on to a bubble before it bursts?

OPINION. Nicotine policy is changing - and the WHO and many EU countries risk being on the wrong side of the tide. Sweden shows that harm reduction works, while many EU countries and the WHO are...

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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.

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"Alliance between snus users and vejp users could save smoke-free options in the EU"

Sweden needs to build alliances within the EU to defend Swedish alternatives to cigarettes. This is the view of Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers (SD). "We are pretty much alone on nicotine pouches in the EU, but it...

Research: Better fertility when smokers switched to e-cigs

In addition to less damage to the lungs, vejpning may improve sperm quality, according to new Swiss research. The study also links vejp use to a reduced risk of miscarriage compared to smoking.

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...

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.