The government has opened a public consultation seeking views on the proposals for the design and implementation of a new UK-wide Vaping Products Duty. In his budget speech on Wednesday, chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed the...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he is planning to introduce an extra tax on vaping products from October 2026, aiming to make the habit more expensive to deter non-smokers from take it up. Hunt also said that...
Eight retailers have been shut down since October last year in Liverpool for selling illegal vapes, often to young people who are under age, the city council has revealed. The closures were made using legislation that...
A vape shop owner in Warwickshire and his business have been together fined a total of £10,297 after pleading guilty to selling illegal vapes. Luke Benjamin Spencer, director of Warwickshire Vape Ltd, trading as Royal Vapes,...
By Jessica Moriarty, Local Democracy Reporter A Wiltshire business owner will have to pay over £1000 after he sold a disposable e-cigarette to a child. The incident occurred at Mario’s Pizza, on Royal Wootton Bassett’s high...
A huge sum of vapes have been stolen in targeted attacks across commercial businesses in Glasgow’s south-side in the past couple of months, reports said. Between 10 December and 10 February, ten businesses in Shawlands, Govanhill...
The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has launched a crackdown on ads for vapes that break our rules, issuing an Enforcement Notice to advertisers and with focused monitoring to find and ban problem ads appearing in...
More than half of smokers in England wrongly believe that vaping is more harmful or as harmful as smoking, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The study, published in the journal JAMA Network...
Jeremy Hunt is expected to announce a new levy on vaping in next week’s budget, The Times has reported. The chancellor would also cut employee national insurance by 1 percentage-point, according to the report. The new...
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has written to the Scottish minister for green skills, circular economy and biodiversity Lorna Slater, raising concerns about the impact that a ban on disposable vapes would have on responsible...
The Scottish government has on Friday published regulations and a short two week consultation on plans to ban disposable vapes by April 2025. The government statement indicated that the ban will come into force across the...
A first-of-its kind licensing framework for the UK vape industry has been unveiled in Parliament on Wednesday, just days after a new investigation revealed a near 20-fold increase in the number of illicit vapes seized by...
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has been warned that disposable vape ban will do more harm than good as “prohibition has never worked” and to “learn from the Australian government’s mistakes”. Sunak have been warned that black...
By David Humphreys, Local Democracy Reporter Hefty fines have been slapped on two Liverpool businesses for selling vapes to under 18s. Liverpool Council’s environmental health team secured prosecutions against two men whose stores were found to...
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