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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has cautioned against the retailer licensing scheme proposed in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, introduced in the parliament earlier this week, preventing legitimate retailers from operating based on the competition...
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...
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...
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...
The government has introduced the Tobacco and Vapes Bill the parliament, which includes a proposal for a licensing scheme for retailers selling tobacco, vape, and nicotine products across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. This development, welcomed...
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...
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 excise tax,...
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