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UK: As announced in yesterday’s Spring Budget, all tobacco taxes, including on heated tobacco, have increased in line with the Retail Price Index
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Switzerland: National Council member Christophe Clivaz of the opposition Green Party has submitted a motion calling for a ban on disposable e-cigarettes. His motion, citing
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Bulgaria: Finance minister Rositsa Velkova has announced that the 2023 Budget will include an increase in tax on e-cigarettes. The changes will be published tomorrow, 17th
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Netherlands: The House of Representatives has approved a motion calling on the government to introduce mandatory neutral appearance for e-cigarette devices themselves, not
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UK - Scotland: Glasgow City Council yesterday responded to the ongoing Scottish government review of the environmental impact of disposable e-cigarettes by calling for
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UK: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) today published a decision against an advertisement for Riot e-liquid, which it said breached the Committees of Advertising Practice
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UK: The government has no plans to ban vaping in public enclosed places, junior health minister Neil O’Brien told members of Parliament (MPs).
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EU: Answering questions from members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Johan Nissinen of the right-wing Sweden Democrats and Anne-Sophie Pelletier of the French Left on when
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Finland: The Ministry of Finance has told ECigIntelligence that €2.1m was raised in tax revenue from e-liquids in 2020, €3.1m in 2021, and €2.7m
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UK: There are no current plans to reduce nicotine levels in vapour products, junior health minister Neil O’Brien said in reply to a written
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Germany: Customs officers have seized 46 l of e-liquids and 40 counterfeit e-cigarettes in the Rhine-Neckar region of northwest Baden-Württemberg, on which a total of
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UK: Greater Manchester Police has announced the seizure of 18,000 “non-compliant vape products” in an ongoing enforcement operation.
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UK: The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) published a statement on e-cigarettes saying that CTSI and Trading Standards teams need urgent support and clear
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UK: When asked about the environmental impact of disposable e-cigarettes, the junior environment secretary, Rebecca Pow, said that disposable e-cig packaging could also
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Serbia: Health minister, Danica Grujičić, told local media that the proposal to amend the Law on the Protection of People from Smoke Exposure
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UK: At yesterday's debate, the National No Smoking Day, MPs asked the health secretary exactly when the response to the Khan review will be
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Russia: Yesterday, a bill on the state regulation of production and circulation of tobacco and nicotine-containing products was approved by the Russian government,
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Russia: The government agenda for today includes a discussion on a proposal concerning the production, licensing and packaging requirements for tobacco and nicotine products.
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UK: Asked in Parliament about a possible “smoke-free fund” to be paid for by the tobacco industry to boost public health budgets, junior
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Switzerland: The upper house of the Federal Assembly, the Council of States, has approved by 40 votes to one an amendment to the Tobacco Tax Act to tax
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Netherlands: Governing coalition party Democrats 66 was today set to submit a motion to the House of Representatives calling for an enforced change
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UK: Treasury sources say a vaping levy will not be included in next week’s Budget, despite calls from health department officials, press reports. The
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Czech Republic: National anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil has told reporters that an overdue action plan on addiction will be sent to the government by the end
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Italy: The Ministry of Health will present a bill to Parliament soon to eliminate smoking rooms in public places and extend the smoking
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Denmark: The government has sent a draft bill to the European Commission TRIS database introducing an executive order to expand requirements for notification of
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Czech Republic: The Ministry of Health has updated the publicly available list of notified herbal products for smoking, e-cigarettes and refill containers.
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Germany: The Bundesrat (federal council) has voted in favour of calling “on the federal government to campaign at the national and EU level
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Russia: Bill 204240-8, amending Federal Law No. 15-FZ on “health protection from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and the consequences of tobacco consumption”, has
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EU: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) of 1.3.2023 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/574 on technical standards for the establishment and operation of a traceability system for tobacco
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Slovenia: The Ministry of Health has put forward a bill to ban the sale of vaping products with any flavour other than tobacco. The bill
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Latvia: A bill to ban e-cigarette flavours and prohibit the sale of all e-cigs, with or without nicotine, to under-20s has been approved at its second
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Russia: From today, 1st March, the tax on e-liquids will rise to RUB20 (€0.25) per ml. The rate will go up again next year to RUB21 (€0.26)
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Bulgaria: From tomorrow, 1st March, nicotine-containing e-cigarettes will be taxed at BGN0.18 (€0.09) per ml. The rate will rise to BGN0.25 (€0.13) in 2024 and BGN0.35
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UK: Asked about a report elsewhere that ministers were considering a vaping tax, the Department of Health and Social Care told ECigIntelligence it would
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EU: On 1st March, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) of the European Parliament will exchange views with the European
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UK: There are no immediate plans to ban disposables, according to junior environment secretary, Rebecca Pow. "The Government is concerned by the increasing
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UK: Junior environment secretary, Rebecca Pow, said that the Environment Agency has so far not taken any enforcement action under the Waste Electrical
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UK: Yesterday, Greater Manchester Police released the results of Operation Vulcano, in which officers seized "hundreds of illegal vapes", among other non-compliant products.
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UK: Trading Standards officers and the police have seized more than 500 illegal disposable e-cigs worth around £5,000 from a shop in Taunton,
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UK: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled in two cases against e-cigarette retailers Kick Ash Vapes Ltd and VPZ VapeClinic. In both cases, the ASA ruled
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UK: Police and trading standards officers in County Durham say they have seized almost £100,000 worth of illegal e-cigarettes and cigarettes following multiple complaints about
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Croatia: The Croatian Institute of Public Health organised a roundtable to mark national non-smoking day, at which health experts discussed the harms of tobacco. It
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Germany: The Bundesrat will vote on 3rd March on Bavaria’s initiative for a ban on disposable e-cigarettes. This follows the recommendation by the Bundesrat Environment and European Union
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UK: England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty has said in a widely reported speech that he finds the marketing of e-cigarettes to children appalling
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UK: Nottinghamshire Fire Service has warned of fire risks associated with the improper use and disposal of e-cigarettes. “We strongly recommend that people do
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Germany: Following Bavaria’s call for an EU-wide ban on disposable e-cigarettes, the Bundesrat has published a committee recommendation calling on the federal government to advocate an
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Czech Republic: Regular checks by regional public health officials in the city of Olomouc have seized “a significant number” of wrongly labelled disposable
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