Bombshell or slow burn | Big story: Tobacco and vape bans
In the words of shadow health minister Wes Streeting, the legislation is set to “consign smoking to the dustbins of history”. This generational ban, as it’s known, will…
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Feeling the Squeeze – Tobacco Reporter
Mercedes GorgniThe ECMM follows a tightening of other rules, such as the decision at the end of 2019 to ban the online sale and advertising of e-cigarettes in response to concerns about underage vaping. In April 2022, the STMA released a…
Park Ridge considers requiring special permits for tobacco, vape shops – Chicago
The Park Ridge City Council considered amending its code for special use permits for tobacco and vape shops at its April 15 Committee of the Whole meeting. Mayor Marty Maloney had for months requested the item be brought to the agenda…
Florida Passes First-Ever Disposable Vape Registry – Tobacco Reporter
Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, has signed legislation intended to crack down on the sale of unauthorized vapes that the state deems attractive to children.The new law (HB 1007), however, only targets disposable vaping products not…
UKVIA Updates Suppliers on Changing U.K. Landscape – Tobacco Reporter
John Dunne, director general of the U.K. Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA), traveled to China to educate vape companies on Britain’s changing regulatory landscape.The U.K. will ban disposable e-cigarettes from April next year, and the…
Illegal vape trade adds woes to tobacco farmers
The Bureau of Internal Revenue confiscated 102,900 bottles of vape products and arrested two individuals during a raid of a warehouse in San Pablo City, Laguna on March 11, 2024. The total tax deficiency was estimated at…
Nepal Poised to Ban Vapes as ‘Tobacco’ Use Spikes – Tobacco Reporter
Nepal is poised to ban e-cigarettes, according to Bhakta Bahadur KC, information officer at the National Health Education, Information and Communication Center, reports MyRepublica.The legislation is a response to rising e-cigarette use…
City council to hold hearing to crackdown on vape, tobacco shops in Concord –
CONCORD, N.C. — The city of Concord may crack down on where vape and tobacco shops can be located.Concord City Council will hold a public hearing next Thursday on whether to restrict these smoke shops from being allowed in most zoning…
How Colorado is addicted to nicotine and the money in tobacco
CPR News spent nearly a year talking with teenagers, parents, doctors, advocates, researchers, political figures and others. We’ve looked through once-secret internal industry documents released by tobacco companies and listened to many…