Prime Nic Pouches, leading online store for nicotine pouches, has reported a staggering 289 per cent increase in UK sales for the month of June 2024 compared to the previous month. The company believes that the surge in demand for nicotine pouc...

British American Tobacco (BAT) reported a 1.3 per cent rise in half-year profit on Thursday, exceeding analyst expectations, but said it was likely to fall short of its 2025 ambitions on smoking alternatives. While BAT is looking to grow its re...

Philip Morris International (PMI) has on Tuesday announced an upward revision of its full-year guidance, following robust financial results for the second quarter and first half of 2024, driven by the continued success of its smoke-free products. ...

Imperial Brands has launched a vaping device which offers up to 1,000 puffs per pod, which is being rolled-out to UK wholesale and independent retail channels first. Providing enhanced sales opportunities, the all-new blu bar kit offers a combi...

Vapes Bars has announced the upcoming nationwide launch of its new Angel 2400 device. The innovative product will soon be available in 50,000 major supermarket stores and FMCG outlets across the UK. The extensive rollout, expected to be complet...

Around 3200 vapes, 127,300 cigarettes and 23 pouches of shisha, with a retail value of more than £100,000, have been seized in Sandwell this year, the local council has said. The council added that West Midlands Police are working with its Trad...

Leading vape brand Elfbar has unveiled the first device from its ELFX series, a range created to provide adult users with an accessible entry point to open pod vaping systems. The ELFX series stands out with its 2ml e-liquid capacity and top-fi...

The drive to make Scotland smoke-free risks being set back if too many restrictions are placed on the flavours available to vapers, the Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF) has warned. The convenience store trade body has written to all MSPs urgi...

Vape firm Chill Brands has on Wednesday announced that an internal investigation into allegations of insider trading against its chief executive Callum Sommerton has been discontinued. The investigation, which scrutinised Sommerton's investment...

The number of adults in England who report vaping for more than six months has increased substantially from around one in 80 in 2013 to one in 10 in 2023, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The study, published in The BMJ...

Philip Morris International (PMI) on Tuesday announced an investment of $600 million (£461m) over the next two years to open a manufacturing facility in Colorado, US to produce Zyn nicotine pouches to help meet the growing global demand. Zyn ha...

The UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) has welcomed the King’s Speech announcement that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill will be back on the legislative agenda, expressing hope that the new administration will allow unfettered debate on the issue. ...

King Charles set out prime minister Keir Starmer's legislative agenda on Wednesday, including the revival of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill to introduce a generational tobacco ban and restrict the availability of vaping products. The bill proposed ...

Shops in Carlisle and Workington have been praised following a test purchasing operation organised by Cumberland Council. Council’s Trading Standards service carried out the operation on 9 July in Carlisle and 10 July in Workington in their lat...

The UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) has written to Wes Streeting, the new secretary of state for health and social care, as well as public health minister Andrew Gwynne and shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins, asking for a meeting to di...

More than 3,800 non-compliant disposable vapes, counterfeit jewellery and clothing worth over £50,000 have been seized from a premises in Ashington by officers from Northumberland County Council’s Trading Standards Service. Officers attended th...

Health campaigners have written to US regulators accusing Philip Morris International of misrepresenting past regulatory decisions, seeking to disrupt the launch of its flagship heated tobacco device IQOS in the US. The world's biggest tobacco ...

A large number of illegal cigarettes, tobacco and disposable vapes with a retail value of approximately £260,000 was seized from a storage container and traders across Walsall on Tuesday (9 July) It is one of the largest seizures to date by Wal...

The UK Vaping Industry Association said it has initiated the application process to become part of the Approved Code scheme of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI). The scheme was created to give greater peace-of-mind and protection...

Children exposed to vaping indoors absorb less than one seventh the amount of nicotine as children who are exposed to indoor smoking, but more than those exposed to neither, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The study, published ...