The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) published on Monday guidance for businesses preparing for the ban on the sale and supply of disposable vapes from 1 June 2025. The guidance sets out more detail...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has on Thursday authorised ZYN nicotine pouches making the brand the first and only authorised nicotine pouch in the US. Brand owner Swedish Match, a subsidiary of Philip Morris International, said the...
Snus, an oral product that is significantly safer than smoking, is acting as a widespread substitute for cigarettes in Norway, helping the Scandinavian country to inch closer to smokefree status, a new report has revealed. This...
Officers from Durham Constabulary and the North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (NEROCU) have teamed up with Durham police and crime commissioner Joy Allen, Trading Standards, Public Health and local councils to tackle illegal vapes and...
A shop in Olton has been fined over £11,000 after the business and its director were found guilty of selling illegal disposable vapes. Abdul Qadar, aged 32 of Edgbaston Road, Birmingham, and his business – Vapourmist Ltd...
By Michael Kenwood, Local Democracy Reporter A Belfast shop owner has pleaded guilty to obstructing council officers who were following complaints of dodgy vapes for sale. At Belfast Magistrates Court on Tuesday January 7, Mr James Elwood from Titanic...
A retailer has been handed a fine of £22,500 for selling vapes to minors and stocking non-compliant vapes. Link Telecom Enterprise Limited was handed the maximum fine provided by the regulations of £2,500 for selling a...
The UK Vaping Industry Association said they are ‘disappointed’ that no representatives for the sector, nor for the millions of adults who have quit smoking through vaping, were invited to speak at the committee hearings for...
Small convenience stores are selling less tobacco, and the tobacco products they do sell are much less profitable to them than vaping products, according to new analysis from the University of Edinburgh. Profit margins from vapes...
A break-in at a West Lothian vape shop's new premises in the Houston Industrial Estate in Livingston has delayed the store’s grand opening, scheduled for 8 January. The incident, which occurred on New Year’s Eve, caused...
Thousands of suspected counterfeits and unfit for sale vapes were seized from shops in Rotherham last year as part of a joint operation between South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham Council’s Trading Standards team. The partnership work...
The government must introduce tougher punishments on retailers in order to tackle underage vaping and curb illicit vape sales, according to a new study of almost 6,000 members of the public. More than half of those...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has completed a significant refurbishment of its national distribution centre in Crewe. investing £7.8 million into the facility. Originally opened in 1994 for Gallaher Ltd, and becoming part of JTI following the...
Thousands of illegal vapes and counterfeit and unlicensed drugs worth £1million have been seized on Monday by police and trading standards officers in a raid on Erdington High Street. In one of the biggest seizures of...
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