Experts from across the e-cigarette, tobacco control and healthcare sectors will come together this week for the E-Cigarette Summit, an event aimed at helping improve the scientific understanding of this still-new category. The...

Firm’s annual global results highlight challenge facing the industry Imperial Brands has revealed steep falls in its global sales of next generation products in its full-year results. In the first half of the year (ending 30...

Just because your competitor has closed their doors doesn’t mean the return of lockdown restrictions should be celebrated, says Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski Here we are again. After the Welsh ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown saw vape shops...

Flavour Warehouse’s group sales director, Anthony Moses, introduces his “fun” vape brand to the channel When Vampire Vape was established in 2012, we began with just 12 core flavours, but this has expanded dramatically over the...

British American Tobacco (BAT) has acquired the US pouch nicotine brand Dryft as the firm looks to expand its presence in this expanding category. Dryft will now become part of BAT’s global pouch brand VELO and boosts the compa...

JTI is entering the heat not burn category in the UK with its Ploom system available in London from today (2 November). The company – which also owns the Logic vaping brand and Nordic Spirit nicotine pouches range – is bringing...

A consumer body representing users of non-combustible nicotine products has written to the government to urge a fresh approach to regulation after Brexit. Addressed to Jo Churchill MP, Minister for Prevention, Public Health and...

Philip Morris has revealed global sales of its reduced risk products [RRPs] amounted to almost $5 billion during the first three quarters of 2020. Despite the continued pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, unit sales of the com...

Vapers with COVID-19 will be emitting viral particles in their vapour, a leading expert has told The Guardian, though this risk can be mitigated by users choosing to vape considerately. Prof Caitlin Notley, of Norwich Medical S...

Greater access to vape products would be the most effective tool in helping cut smoking rates, according to a poll of 1,000 smokers and former smokers conducted by Vape Club to mark World Mental Health Day.   According to the r...

COVID-19 clearly isn’t going anywhere soon. As winter approaches, Tom Gockelen-Kozlowski looks at what we now know about operating in a health crisis Trading through a pandemic has provided many challenges to convenience retail...

Paul Cheema owns and runs the Tile Hill Service Station in Coventry. He discusses what he's learned about great vape retailing in the context of a petrol forecourt Meeting the needs of different vape customers ...

Vince Malone owns and runs Premier Tenby Stores and Post Office in Pembrokeshire. He explains how vape retailing can be managed in a seaside setting Recovering sales post-lockdown Our vape sales had been gro...

Sam Coldbeck, who runs Premier Wharfedale News in Hull with her husband Mark, explains how retailers can can boost sales in stores at the heart of their communities   Having entry level products The benefit...

Nick Geens, head of Logic and Reduced-Risk Products at JTI, explains how stores can create a strategy for success, wherever their store is located No two shops are the same, so retailers should follow advice best suited to them...

Nishi Patel, who runs Londis Bexley Park in Dartford, Kent, explains how he makes the vape category work for his store location Keeping a handle on our range We have had to be really careful because we get a...