All Tobacco articles – Page 8
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Promotional FeaturesIs your store missing out on the heated tobacco opportunity?
Booming global sales and recent success in the UK mean the heated tobacco category is capturing consumers’ imagination – and Greater London retailers should be capitalising on the growing popularity, says JTI.
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NewsBAT study indicates benefits of cigarette smokers switching to heat-not-burn devices
The research is significant for the big tobacco companies in making the case for the health benefits of switching to their heat-not-burn devices
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Promotional FeaturesTackling the issue of underage smoking
Preventing youth access to nicotine products has always been important and continues to remain so. British American Tobacco (BAT) looks at the legal and practical challenges for retailers and reveals how its YAP programme can help.
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Comment & OpinionDo booming disposable vape sales spell disaster for the environment?
With sales rocketing, the sector faces a problem with the recycling of its lithium batteries, not to mention plastic waste
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NewsSupreme acquires trade and assets of vaping businesses Cuts Ice and Flavour Core
It follows Supreme’s acquisition of Liberty Flights in June in a deal worth up to £15m
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NewsTax gap on alcohol and tobacco rises to an estimated £3.7 billion in 2021
The increase indicates that tax evasion and the illegal importation of tobacco is a growing problem in the UK
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NewsI Vape Great to build £7m facility as revenues expected to break £100m
The company recently secured Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) which allows the sale of IVG in the US market
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Comment & OpinionWhy underage disposable vaping data is no throwaway issue
A couple of underage kids reacting badly to dodgy vapes could spark rash government intervention
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Comment & OpinionUS chaos shows why UK was right to legislate early on vaping
The US’s seemingly tough stance on vaping stands in stark contrast to the UK’s
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NewsMore than third of convenience retailers want to ditch cigarettes
More than two thirds said they were keen to work with other local retailers to help smokers switch
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NewsVape brand Geek Bar launches ‘supply chain charter’ to crack down on malpractice
The charter covers “every aspect of the supply chain”, from product sourcing to sale of devices to customers.
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Comment & OpinionWhy Philip Morris really does want to kill the cigarette (and not humans)
PMI reckons it has ‘made the biggest step to improve public health globally’
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NewsACS warns retailers not to delete emails from new tobacco track & trace provider
Because the new provider’s name, Dentsu, is unfamiliar to retailers, many are feared to have deleted or ignored important emails as possible scams
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NewsSupreme acquires vaping manufacturer Liberty Flights in deal worth estimated £12m
Liberty Flights was founded in 2010 and specialises in premium e-liquid and vaping devices
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NewsAnnual age increase for tobacco sales could disrupt retailers' restriction policies, argues ACS
It comes as Javed Khan, the former CEO of Barnardo’s, today published an independent review into the government’s ambition to make England smoke-free by 2030
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NewsPopular disposable vapes falling short on compliance, analysis finds
Some of the devices failed to display the ‘nicotine dose per puff’, which is mandatory for devices sold in the UK
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NewsPhilip Morris International agrees $16bn deal for Swedish nicotine pouch player
Swedish Match, the European producer of oral nicotine pouches, has agreed a $16bn deal to sell to global tobacco giant Philip Morris.
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Comment & OpinionHFSS brands need to mobilise public support to avoid tobacco-style controls
There are similarities in the creeping controls on HFSS products to the way tobacco was treated in the run-up to plain packaging, says Mike Coppen-Gardner, MD of SPQR Communications
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NewsMajority of UK smokers buy illegal tobacco, survey finds
The research, carried out by the Tobacco Manufacturers Association (TMA), found 71% of consumers were buying products illegally
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NewsACS launches new age-restricted sales guidance for home delivery drivers
The trade body has designed the guide so it can be viewed on mobile phones as a quick reference