At a time when vaping in Europe is again under threat, with taxes, flavour bans and restrictions looming, non-profit organisation European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (ETHRA), are running an ambitious survey to draw a map of vaping and nicotine use across the EU (and, yes, that includes the UK!) We got together with Philippe Poirson, …
Nicotine & the EU: Your chance to be heard… Read More »
10 tips for getting through the current crisis Times are brutal for the retail industry. On top of the EVALI scare last year, vape shops have been forced to close for months. Even between lockdowns, some customers are going to ground in the midst of the worst pandemic for a hundred years. To survive and …
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Over the last few years, no official government body in the world has endorsed vaping like Public Health England has. With grace and integrity, the organisation and the people at its helm, have countered misinformation. For example, when the lung disease EVALI was wrongly attributed to nicotine vaping (it was actually caused by the use …
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From a small niche market in the late 2010s, vaping has rapidly changed the face of nicotine and tobacco in the world, gaining over 40 million users worldwide by 2018. However, it has gained some powerful enemies in the process. In this post, we’ll be soaring over the superlatives and hyperbole present in the vaping …
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The European Council has finally decided to tax vape products in the same way they tax tobacco, with a tax on vapes applying across the EU. Their next step will be to pass the proposal on to the European Commission. This is the culmination of a long battle, with rumours, negotiations and consultations about the …
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It’s strange how sometimes something really big can creep in with barely a whisper. An example of this is an upcoming ban on menthol cigarettes, which will be banned in the UK and the EU from May 20th 2020 – yet many smokers have still not heard of the ban. The impact could be huge …
Menthol Cigarettes Banned This Week – What It Means For Vaping… Read More »
Just a week ago I speculated that vape shops might not close in the UK. It was not to be. Last night vape shops, along with all other non-essential shops, were ordered closed by the government. That’s despite lobbying from both vape trade associations (IBVTA / UKVIA), who called for vape shops to remain open …
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As Coronavirus continues to impact life across the UK (and, indeed, the world), we thought you might appreciate an update from a vaping perspective. There’s rumours to quash, vape hygiene to consider and the need to think about the continued supply of vape products. Let’s get started. Will vape shops be shut in a lockdown? …
Coronavirus & Vaping: An Update Read More »
My daughter is a teenager and I hear all sorts of stories about the antics of her peers. They include teenagers smoking in the schoolyard, drinking alcohol until they collapse and doing drugs on the school bus. Crucially, they are not doing these things because they think they are safe. They are well aware that …
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A few years ago, vaping was very nearly banned in Europe. The European Commission and the majority of the Member States planned to medicinalise electronic cigarettes. As it can take 10-20 years to get a medical licence for a product, that would have essentially outlawed vaping. At the time, vapers across the UK and Europe …
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