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Anti-smoking experts are calling on South Korea’s new government to double cigarette prices and strengthen tobacco regulations to curb smoking rates and protect public health. In a new report, Professor Cho Hong-joon of Ulsan University and Lee Sung-kyu of the Korea Tobacco Control Research Education Center outlined seven key policy recommendations, including raising (...)

The push for a nationwide vape ban is allegedly being fuelled by pharmaceutical companies, claims the president of the Malaysian Organisation of Vape Entity (Move), Samsul Kamal Ariffin.

For the better part of the past century, the case against nicotine was simple: Smoking a cigarette might feel nice, but it will eventually kill you. Nearly one in five deaths in the United States is caused by complications from cigarette smoke. But in 2025, nicotine isn’t so straightforward. Smoking is so deadly not because of nicotine (...)

According to a study published in October 2024 in the international peer-reviewed journal Tobacco Control, “Transformation of the Tobacco Product Market in Japan, 2011–2023,” per capita and total cigarette sales in Japan decreased by more than 50 percent between 2011 and 2023. This trend remained relatively flat until 2015, when HTPs were introduced to the Japanese market, after which the rate of decline accelerated markedly.

With the UK government's 2025 disposable vape ban now in effect to tackle environmental concerns and reduce health risks, millions of vapers are left seeking legal and reliable alternatives. Eliquid Base, one of the UK's leading online vape retailers, has stepped up with a robust solution; the launch of compliant prefilled pod kits that align with UK TPD regulations, offering the same convenience and flavour experience as disposables without breaching the new rules.

KUALA LUMPUR — The Health Ministry’s push to ban vape products while simultaneously approving them for market registration sends a contradictory and confusing signal to both the public and industry players, says Malaysian Organisation of Vape Entity (MOVE) president Samsul Kamal Ariffin.

Peer‑reviewed review concludes that flavored electronic vaping products help smokers switch and do not add significant toxicological risk versus tobacco‑flavored vapes. Authors warn that flavor bans may increase smoking or illicit trade, and urge regulators to keep flavor diversity while limiting youth access

In a recent earnings report, Altria said the category ‘grew to 52.0% of its U.S. oral tobacco category.’ In its earnings call this week, Altria Group Inc. reported total net revenues decreased (...)

France is at a pivotal moment in determining the future of nicotine pouches, a tobacco-free oral product increasingly used by adult smokers as a lower-risk alternative to cigarettes. In 2024, the French government took a prohibitionist stance, notifying a draft decree that aimed to ban nicotine pouches entirely, including their production, sale, possession, and use. Framed as a youth protection measure, the proposal triggered immediate backlash from scientists, harm reduction advocates, and members of Parliament who viewed the move as excessive and counterproductive.

As a result of the recent UK ban, we now have more evidence of how harsh vape restrictions risk backfiring, fueling black markets and misinformation—ultimately undermining harm reduction and making safer alternatives harder to access.