Tag: EU
Smoking cessation: Scientists find quitting abruptly increases success
Opposite to the most common belief, going slowly is not the best way to quit smoking, even if quitting rates are also reasonably good...
EU: Towards a tax increase on vaping products
The European Commission was asked by European Finance Ministers to draft an “appropriate legislative proposal” for increasing taxes on e-cigarettes that are currently taxed by ±20%...
Petition: Belgian vapers mobilize against the Royal decree
Earlier, this month, a Royal Decree was published referring to “the manufacturing and the marketing of e-cigarettes”. The text is a transposition of the...
Belgium: Online ecig shops forced to close
The Royal decree that transposes the European Tobacco Products Directive in the Belgian law for e-cigarettes has been published on March 3, 2016. Among...
Fontem Ventures in the race of Ecig emission analysis
Fontem Ventures, a branch of Imperial Tobacco Group PLC, recently renamed Imperial Brands, and the owner of the e-cigarette Blu, announced that it has developed, in partnership with...
Sweden: Women are threatened by the European ecig regulation
Sweden, through the accession treaty to the EU, obtained a derogation for snus that has not been proven to represent a significant risk for health over...
UK: Before the e-cigarette, tobacco companies had no competitor
The decline of tobacco products in the UK is inexorable
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Germany: A court sentences a nicotine e-liquid retailer 90 days before...
The Court of Karlsruhe, the highest Federal Court in Germany, has just approved a decision of the Court of Frankfurt which convicted and fined an e-cigarette retailer €9,000 for...
