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After a Decade-Long ‘War on Vaping,’ Is the FDA Finally Embracing Tobacco Harm Reduction?
After almost a decade of conflict between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the vaping industry, there are signs that America’s approach to tobacco harm reduction could be entering a different phase. Economist Dr Raymond March, Director of FDAReview.org and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, recently delivered a highly critical assessment […]
Britain’s Tobacco Policy Paradox, Part 2: Vape Rules Tighten Further Just Weeks After New Tax
Just weeks after Britain’s new vaping tax takes effect, another major set of nicotine regulations will take effect, adding to what is becoming one of the biggest transformations of the UK’s vaping market in years. As reported in our previous article on the Vaping Products Duty (VPD), vaping liquids will be subject to a new […]
Some Sense at Last? Coalition Proposes 80% Tobacco Tax Cut and Legal Vapes to Break Australia’s Black Market
Australia’s escalating illicit tobacco crisis has pushed a once politically unthinkable idea into mainstream debate: what if extremely high cigarette taxes and restrictions on safer nicotine alternatives are now strengthening the black market they were supposed to suppress? The federal Coalition has (finally) proposed an extraordinary overhaul of Australian nicotine policy, combining an 80% reduction […]
A Welcome Coincidence for Sweden, as Its Election Could Derail EU Tobacco Tax Deal Over Snus and Nicotine Pouches
As Europe’s attempt to overhaul tobacco and nicotine regulation approaches a critical point, Sweden’s election is threatening to delay agreement on new EU tobacco taxes, at a time when stronger scientific evidence emerges for vaping as a smoking-cessation tool. The dispute extends well beyond tax rates. At its heart is a fundamental question for European […]
Enough is Enough: UKVIA Hits Back at Upcoming Vaping Regulations
A tidal wave of restrictions “Enough is Enough” is the name chosen by the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) for its new campaign, launched this Thursday, September 3, 2026. Its target is the large number of restrictions the government is considering introducing for vaping products, several of which are currently the subject of public consultations. […]
As Vaping Expands, Smoking Keeps Falling: New Zealand and U.S. Data Strengthen the Case for Tobacco Harm Reduction
New Zealand’s latest tobacco figures are adding weight to a pattern increasingly difficult for policymakers to overlook: countries where smokers have meaningful access to vaping are continuing to record historically low levels of cigarette use. The country’s 2025 tobacco returns show the volume of smoked tobacco entering the legal retail market fell 22% in a […]
Australia’s Backwards Nicotine Policy, Part 2: Could Canada’s Tax Strategy Offer a Solution?
Australia’s tobacco debate is increasingly about more than smoking rates. With illicit cigarettes and vapes capturing a growing share of nicotine consumption, policymakers face a harder question: can taxation and enforcement succeed when the regulated market is dramatically more expensive—and, for lower-risk nicotine products, often less accessible—than the black market? Canada confronted a comparable problem […]
Riot Labs Cites Cochrane Review Against UK Vape Packaging Plans
The company highlighted a gap between evidence and public perceptions of vaping, warning that proposed UK restrictions could undermine switching from cigarettes. The post Riot Labs Cites Cochrane Review Against UK Vape Packaging Plans first appeared on Tobacco Reporter .
Disposable Vapes Have Become Public Enemy Number One. Is the Distrust Justified?
Disposable vapes have become one of Europe’s least trusted nicotine products. Once credited with making switching from cigarettes unusually simple, the brightly coloured devices are increasingly portrayed as an environmental nuisance, a gateway to youth nicotine use and a regulatory problem requiring outright prohibition. That backlash is now translating into policy. Regulatory analysis from ECigIntelligence […]
Why Bangladesh Should Maintain the Ban on e-Cigarettes: A Commentary.
Peer-reviewed study (journal article) in Health Sci Rep by Kibria MG. Abstract available.
Youth vaping in Europe: nicotine regulation needs respiratory end-points.
Peer-reviewed study (journal article) in Eur Respir J by Allen J, Toland S
VTA Poll Finds Support for Science-Based Vape Regulation Reform
VTA Poll Finds Support for Science-Based Vape Regulation Reform Tobacco Reporter
The FDA Stopped Chasing You. It Did Not Make You Legal
QUICK TAKE On May 8, 2026, the FDA issued new guidance saying it generally will not prioritize enforcement against unauthorized vapes and nicotine pouches whose premarket applications have been accepted and filed for review. The guidance withdraws the April 2020 policy that targeted flavored cartridge products, and supersedes every earlier enforcement discretion document. The agency […] The Spinfuel article and review - The FDA Stopped Chasing You. It Did Not Make You Legal - appeared first on Spinfuel .
Vape sellers to Ohio Supreme Court: crackdown is unconstitutional
Vape sellers to Ohio Supreme Court: crackdown is unconstitutional Cincinnati CityBeat
$20 Million, a Permanent Injunction and Distributor Controls: Posh Deal Tightens Illinois Vape Compliance
$20 Million, a Permanent Injunction and Distributor Controls: Posh Deal Tightens Illinois Vape Compliance 2Firsts
Appeals court clears way for Iowa vape registry law to take effect
Appeals court clears way for Iowa vape registry law to take effect nonpareilonline.com
Dothan’s vape tax generates more than $93,000 in first eight months
Dothan’s vape tax generates more than $93,000 in first eight months WTVY
Is the UK’s Latest Regulatory Shake-Up Leaning Towards Harm Reduction or Over-Regulation?
Britain’s vaping sector is entering its most challenging period since e-cigarettes first emerged as a smoking alternative. New taxes, stricter product rules, tighter marketing restrictions and proposals targeting specialist vape retailers are converging at a time when around 5.5 million adults in Great Britain use vaping products, most of them former or current smokers. For […]
The FDA’s strategy on vaping is going up in smoke
The FDA’s strategy on vaping is going up in smoke — now Americans are put at risk Washington Examiner
China’s Jiangsu Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and Drug Regulator Target Illegal Vape Sales Disguised as Medical Devices, Define Six Violations
China’s Jiangsu Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and Drug Regulator Target Illegal Vape Sales Disguised as Medical Devices, Define Six Violations 2Firsts
PA Defends Flavored Vape Law in Constitutional Challenge
PA Defends Flavored Vape Law in Constitutional Challenge Tobacco Reporter
Black swan slapped, forced to inhale vape fumes, court hears
Black swan slapped, forced to inhale vape fumes, court hears ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Time to reform Australia’s failed policy on smoking and vaping
Time to reform Australia’s failed policy on smoking and vaping Pearls and Irritations
4Th Circuit upholds NC law restricting vape sales
4th Circuit upholds NC law restricting vape sales Carolina Journal
From Poland to Lithuania: Are Europe’s Nicotine Policies Reasonable or Going Too Far?
In Europe, many governments are still rolling out stricter nicotine policies. These range from banning certain flavours and imposing hefty taxes on vapes to raising the legal age for purchase and suggesting limits on online sales. While proponents argue that these steps are crucial for protecting the youth, tobacco harm reduction experts caution that ill-conceived […]
Plain Packaging and “Drab” Colors: The UK’s Latest Anti-Vape Plan
The United Kingdom could impose restrictions on nicotine vapes’ packaging, flavor descriptions and visibility in retail outlets. Government ministers frame ...
South America’s Fragmented Nicotine Market Keeps Feeding the Illicit Supply Chain
South America has made substantial progress against smoking, but its approach to safer nicotine alternatives remains fragmented and frequently contradictory. Governments have raised tobacco taxes, introduced graphic warnings and expanded smoke-free laws, yet several continue to prohibit vaping and heated-tobacco products while leaving cigarettes widely available. Across the wider Americas, adult tobacco-use prevalence fell from […]
Italy’s Pragmatic Tobacco Policy: Conservative Giorgia Meloni Takes an Open-Minded Approach to Vaping
Giorgia Meloni is generally considered a conservative prime minister. Yet on tobacco harm reduction, her government has sometimes adopted a comparatively progressive position by resisting policies that automatically treat vaping and heated tobacco as equivalent to smoking. Since taking office in October 2022, the Meloni government has maintained Italy’s tobacco controls and gradually increased cigarette […]
Vape Flavour Restrictions Will Stop Smokers Switching
Press Release Major studies and We Vape polling show fruit and dessert flavours are critical tools for adult smokers who successfully quit Final call for vapers to have their say Government plans to force vapes into plain packaging and heavily restrict flavour names will drive people back to smoking and undermine harm reduction, campaigners have […]
Hawaiʻi residents react to state's 'vape ban' set for 2027
Hawaiʻi residents react to state's 'vape ban' set for 2027 Hawaii Public Radio
FDA Flavored Vape Lawsuit (July 2026)
QUICK TAKE – The FDA authorized four flavored e-cigarettes in May, including fruit flavors like mango and blueberry – That same guidance lets other unauthorized flavored vapes and nicotine pouches stay on shelves while their applications are pending – On July 14, a coalition of public health groups, pediatricians, and parents sued the FDA over […] The Spinfuel article and review - FDA Flavored Vape Lawsuit (July 2026) - appeared first on Spinfuel .
UK Vape Plain Packaging Consultation: What Could Change for Vapers
White boxes. No bright colours. No cartoon graphics. No names such as “Unicorn Dream” or “Mint Blast”. If the government’s latest proposals become law, that could be the future of vape packaging and device design in the UK. On 10 July 2026, the UK government and the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland […]
PMTA Registry Laws, July 2026
QUICK TAKE Fourteen states now require every vape on the shelf to carry an FDA marketing granted order, and Hawaii just went further by banning disposables outright. Meanwhile the FDA itself is loosening up federally, approving its first fruit-flavored product in May. The two governments are pulling in opposite directions, and the states are winning […] The Spinfuel article and review - PMTA Registry Laws, July 2026 - appeared first on Spinfuel .
FDA Flavored Vape Approval: An Honest 60-Day Timeline
QUICK TAKE In sixty days the FDA went from a careful “youth risk” framework that buried fruit flavors at the back of the line to signing off on mango and blueberry pods. The fruit approval landed before the public even finished commenting on the framework that was supposed to gate it. Here is what moved, […] The Spinfuel article and review - FDA Flavored Vape Approval: An Honest 60-Day Timeline - appeared first on Spinfuel .