By Nic Marko, Local Democracy Reporter A convenience store is to have its licence reviewed following concerns around “illicit vapes” being sold at the site. Hartlepool Borough Council trading standards officers visited 11 O’Clock Shop in...
Philip Morris International (PMI) has announced total global net revenues of IQOS, its leading tobacco heating device, surpassed Marlboro at the end of 2023 to become PMI’s number one international nicotine brand on this measure. The...
Sheffield Trading Standards, working with South Yorkshire Police, have uncovered 30,000 illegal vapes at a small Sheffield shop, the council said. The large quantity, which filled the shop and the storeroom, took a considerable amount of...
The Vape Protection Alliance (VPA) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for a legal challenge to the government’s decision to ban dispose vapes. The campaign has already raised its initial target of £15,000 to...
Italy's competition authority on Wednesday fined British American Tobacco's Italian division €6 million (£5.13m) and Amazon €1m for misleading advertising of a heated tobacco product. The AGCM watchdog said the companies advertised BAT's Glo Hyper X2...
Philip Morris International on Thursday announced its fourth-quarter and full-year results for 2023, revealing a mix of growth and challenges. The company reported a full-year reported diluted EPS of $5.02, a 13.6 per cent decrease from...
Hartlepool-based vape wholesaler Phoenix 2 Retail has been recognised one of Tees region’s best businesses. Phoenix 2 Retail continues to increase its turnover rapidly – despite the challenges of an industry facing tougher regulations. The firm...
British American Tobacco (BAT) slumped into a 2023 loss on a huge US impairment, it said on Thursday, but shares rose as BAT eyed a smaller stake in Indian peer ITC. The maker of Vuse vapes,...
British American Tobacco (BAT) submitted an application to make certain health claims about its Glo Hyper Pro device in the US in December, its first clear move to bring the alternative smoking product to the key...
Alternative products have ‘substantial potential’ to solve the problem of the harms caused by smoking, a Commons Committee has heard. In his evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee’s enquiry into the prevention of harms...
A court in the US has issued a permanent stay on the enforcement of health regulator’s ban on the sales of some flavours of Vuse vape brand. In October last year, the US Food and Drug...
As the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control convened on Monday, the World Vapers' Alliance (WVA) has criticised the exclusion of consumers from the decision-making...
Does vaping offer an opportunity for smokers to kick their deadly tobacco habit, or pose a vast new health threat to the world's young people? This long-smouldering question has again come to the forefront in the...
Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco (BAT) said they have reached a global settlement that resolves all ongoing patent infringement litigation between them over heated tobacco and vapor products. The settlement includes non-monetary provisions...
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