Safer nicotine products (SNP) are increasingly substituting for cigarettes, with inflation-adjusted combustible tobacco sales in decline and SNP sales increasing six-fold since 2015, a new report has shown. The Global State of Tobacco Harm Redu...

Imperial Brands has reported a robust performance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, helped by strong cigarette prices and rise in its Next Generation Products (NGP) segment. The group, whose brands include Golden Virginia tobacco, ...

The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has launched an extended version of its ‘Selling Vapes Responsibly’ guide to support retailers with the transition away from disposable vapes ahead of a ban on the products on 1 June 2025. The guide i...

American conservative media personality Tucker Carlson has announced the launch of ALP, a new nicotine pouch brand, in a joint venture with Turning Point Brands. ALP will be sold, marketed and distributed through ALP Supply Co, a newly formed 5...

Smokers who fully transition to e-cigarettes experience significant improvements in respiratory symptoms, particularly in reducing wheezing, a new study has found. However, the study, Read more ...

Over a third of the vapers will defy any new flavour restrictions brought in under the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, a poll by campaign group We Vape has found. Commissioned after the bill's first reading in parliament, the poll showed 35 per cent of...

Sweden has inched closer to becoming officially ‘smoke free’, government figures released on Wednesday have shown. Smoking prevalence across the country went down to 5.3 per cent, according to the health data released by Sweden’s public health ...

The NHS has announced the rollout of a newly approved version of the anti-smoking drug varenicline in England, a move that could help tens of thousands of smokers quit. This daily pill, to be offered through NHS Stop Smoking Services, aims to s...

The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has cautioned against the retailer licensing scheme proposed in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, introduced in the parli...

Huge amounts of counterfeit and illicit vapes, cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco cigarettes worth over £1.6million were seized in Lancashire late last month. In one of the biggest Trading Standards seizures in Hyndburn to date, around 100,000...

Prashant and Trupti Patel, who run the One Stop Brockworth store in Gloucester, have won the Best Smokeless Alternatives Retailer of the Year award, supported by VELO, at the 2024 Asian Trader Awards ceremony held on 5 November at London's Park Pl...

More than £60,000 worth of illegal cigarettes, hand-rolling tobacco and vapes have been seized in the Harehills area of Leeds, police said. Last month, retail premises in the area were visited over a two-day period by police and Trading Standar...

The government has introduced the Tobacco and Vapes Bill the parliament, which includes a proposal for a licensing scheme for retailers selling tobacco, va...

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill will be introduced to parliament on Tuesday involving some of the world's strictest anti-smoking rules, including banning younger people from smoking and restrictions on vape sales. The government plans to ban smoking...

Global vaping innovator Elfbar has introduced its first four-pod system, the Elfbar 4-in-1 pod kit. Designed for flavour versatility, the rechargeable pod kit includes four 2ml pods, allowing adults to rotate between four flavours in one device...

Labour MP Mary Glindon has cautioned that a new excise tax on vaping could discourage smokers from switching to less harmful alternatives. Glindon, who also chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Responsible Vaping, said the chancellor’s ...

Vape industry bodies have raised concerns over chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget announcement introducing a flat-rate excise duty on vaping products, saying it could hurt public health and increase financial pressures on consumers. The new excis...

By: Robbie Macdonald, Local Democracy Reporter

By: Nadia Lincoln, Local Democracy Reporter  

The decision to ban disposable vapes by June 2025 in England and Wales has sparked strong reactions across the vaping and retail sectors, with key ...