PMI results highlights IQOS growth
IQOS sales grew five-fold in the past year according to brand owner Philip Morris’s latest quarterly results. The figure compares IQOS sales in the UK during the second quarter of 2020 with that of the same...
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EXCLUSIVE: Blu outlines sustainability challenge
Imperial-owned vape brand Blu has outlined the efforts it is making to ensure its products are as sustainable as possible and that further steps are taken in the future. The company says it has completed full...
New tobacco flavour joins JUUL range
Vape manufacturer JUUL is launching a new flavour to its range of capsules from August. Rich Tobacco will join the current range of six available JUULpod flavours. Earlier this year, the company launched a Menthol flavour...
New poll shows support for pub garden smoking ban
Twenty-four hours after we brought you the news that the House of Lords had debated a tightening of smoking regulations to include pub gardens, a poll by YouGov shows the measure has popular support. Asking the...
Video: Lung specialist recommends vaping to smokers
Dr Matt Evison, a Manchester-based NHS lung specialist, fronts a new video 'pleading' with smokers to give up combustible tobacco, and suggesting e-cigarettes as an effective tool. The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, the...
‘Nicotine is your friend,’ says regional stop smoking s...
A UK 'Stop Smoking Service' run by Northamptonshire County Council has been hailed for the support it gives local smokers to quit the habit, championing vaping as a successful path away from combustible tobacco. It is...
£100,000 donation aims to help front line workers quit
Front-line workers who smoke – including NHS workers, police officers and Blue Light Card carriers – will benefit from a £100,000 donation of vape products to help them quit smoking. Vape Chain VPZ has announced the...
IQOS gets US regulators approval as a ‘modified risk tobacco product’
Philip Morris has taken another step forward in introducing IQOS to the US market after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the marketing of the brand as a reduced risk tobacco product. According to...
Slash VAT on vape products to help ‘quitters’, industry recommends
The Government has a ‘big job’ ahead if it is to help Britain go smoke-free by 2030 and should cut VAT on vape products to help get there, the industry body UKVIA has said. Currently, vape...
Flavoured vapes are twice as effective for quitters, report suggests
Users of flavoured vapes have more than double the chance of quitting smoking compared to those who use tobacco-flavoured products, a new study suggests. The US-based research paper – Associations of Flavoured E-Cigarette Uptake With subsequent...
Experts respond to ‘questionable’ vape report
Experts have united in criticism of a review by the University of Mainz which conflates the harm between vape products, shisha use and traditional cigarettes. The report led to headlines around the world declaring that both...
£20,000 per quitter: the price of stop smoking services revealed
New data from the NHS has shown that tens of thousands of pounds are being spent by councils to get just one person to quit smoking. According to new figures supplied to Vape Business by BAT's...
Industry needs “training qualification for staff” says ...
Vape retailers should have access to an industry-accredited qualification to help staff improve their category knowledge, an expert on the UK nicotine market has said. Martin Cullip, chair of the New Nicotine Alliance told Vape Business:...
PHE gives qualified backing to vape during COVID-19 outbreak
“It is clear that vaping is far less harmful to the respiratory system than smoking”, Public Health England has said in guidance published on the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance points to e-cigarettes as an effective tool...
