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Marc Smith

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What Will the 2024 General Election Mean for Vapers in the UK?

As the 2024 General Election approaches in the UK, the future of vaping regulations and policies is a topic of significant interest among vapers, public health experts, and industry stakeholders. The outcome of the election could shape the landscape for vaping, impacting everything from regulation and taxation to public health campaigns and industry growth. Here’s a look at the potential implications for vapers in the UK.

vapekit 2023 roundup 08/02/2024

Vapekit’s 2023 News Review – Part 1

Vapekit has looked at so many different aspects of vaping over the course of the last year we thought we’d take a moment to reflect and see how they developed at this festive time. Plus, with the New Year just around the corner, is there anything the last year can tell us about what we can expect to see from 2024?

quit smoking with vaping 07/02/2024
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World Leading Brits

Consumers and businesses, politicians and health organisations have ways of doing things. Over time, preferences are formed and best practices honed. Then, once in a while, something new is created. Something new and instantly recognisable as being far superior to that which went before – a disruptive technology sweeping away old habits and procedures. A disruptive technology like vaping. How Britain adapted when faced with an electronic substitute to tobacco will form book chapters in years to come.

child vaping 01/03/2023

ASH Produces Resources To Help Parents

Action on Smoking and Health has produced a set of resources to help schools, colleges, parents, and carers deal with youth vaping in response to growing concerns. The move, in conjunction with Smokefree Sheffield, comes at a time when vaping has never been under such scrutiny in the United Kingdom with vapes removed from supermarket shelves, calls on the Government for tougher legislation, and negative stories in the national media.

Nicotine in eliquid helps to quit smoking 08/02/2023
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Vapes Reduce Tobacco Sales

Research has shown that the increased sale of ecig products replaces tobacco products, proving that vaping works as a substitute to smoking. The study, “Sales of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) and Cigarette Sales in the USA: A Trend Break Analysis”, was conducted by researchers at Pinney Associates and published for peer review in the Journal of Consumer Policy.

Lindsay Hall Vampire Vape 20/12/2022

Our Full Interview With Lindsay Hall Of Vampire Vape

We speak to Lindsay Hall, Brand Marketing Manager of Vampire Vape, to find out more about the brand’s beginnings, what it has in store for its customers, and how confident she feels about the Government’s target to make England smokefree by 2030. Here’s what she had to say.

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Do Eliquid Flavours Help with Quitting?

Quitting cigarettes is hard, do flavoured e-liquids help smokers to switch and give up tobacco related harm? Researchers at Vancouver’s Cancer Research Institute, the University of Michigan, and Georgetown University have looked at the evidence and found the answer whether they are associated with successful quit attempts.

gum disease 29/06/2022
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Does Vaping Cause Gum Disease?

Last week, the government published its independent Khan Review looking at all aspects of tobacco control. Part of it strongly urged the government to do more to promote vaping but this prompted the British Dental Association to kick back and suggest that “there have been recent suggestions linking disposable vapes to gum disease”.

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The Khan Report on the Future of Smoking in the UK

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care commissioned an independent review to be conducted looking at all areas of tobacco control. It was headed up by Javed Khan OBE, and the report was released last week. In response to its release, the Independent British Vape Trade Association was invited to speak about vaping on Radio 4.