Latest UK vaping news and product comparisons.
A proposal doing the rounds in Brussels deserves UK vapers’ attention, even though it has no direct legal force here. Eight EU Member States, with France leading the charge, are pushing for a freeze on new nicotine products entering the market as part of the ongoing review of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). In plain…
The US Food and Drug Administration has just added four new faces to the panel that advises it on tobacco and vaping policy. On 14 October, the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products confirmed that Holger Behrsing, Ph.D., Kim “Skip” Murray, Margaret Nolan, M.D., and Andrew A. Strasser, Ph.D., have been named as voting members of…
If you’ve felt like the vape market has gone a bit quiet lately, you’re not imagining it. Industry watchers in France have flagged something unusual as 2026 heads towards its final quarter: brand new e-cigarette models are appearing far less often than they used to. A few years ago, manufacturers were pushing out fresh devices…
The European Commission has just published the results of its public consultation on reviewing the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and the Tobacco Advertising Directive. Nearly 42,000 responses came in, and the overwhelming majority – 95.4% – were from ordinary citizens rather than health bodies, trade associations or governments. The headline finding is striking: those citizen…
The US Food and Drug Administration has confirmed it intends to scrap its 2021 Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) framework and build something new in its place. The announcement, posted on the agency’s own website, is short on detail: no timetable has been given, and no outline of what a replacement system might look like…
News has emerged that eight European Union member states wrote to the European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Olivér Várhelyi, on 6 October 2026, calling for a ban on all flavoured e-liquids and the introduction of plain packaging for e-cigarettes across the bloc. The letter forms part of ongoing discussions around a revision of…
Ireland has just made smoking and vaping considerably more expensive, and the ripple effects are worth understanding even if you’ve never set foot in Dublin. On 6 October 2026, Finance Minister Simon Harris unveiled a new budget that added €1 to the tax on a pack of cigarettes, a change that has already come into…
For years, Britain was held up as something of a benchmark for sensible vaping regulation compared with much of the rest of the world. That reputation has now shifted. Since 1 October 2026, every bottle of e-liquid sold in the UK — whether it contains nicotine or not — has been subject to a new…
A new law working its way through Alabama’s statehouse has grabbed attention this week, and it’s easy to see why. Senate Bill 9, put forward by Republican Senator Gerald Allen, doesn’t just add a few rules for e-cigarettes alongside existing tobacco laws. Instead, it rewrites the definition of “smoking” in Alabama’s 2003 Clean Indoor Air…
From 1 October 2026, Vaping Products Duty is officially in effect across the UK, adding a flat £2.20 to every 10ml of vaping liquid sold. If you picked up a bottle of e-liquid this week and noticed the shelf price had crept up, this is why. It’s the biggest shake-up to vape pricing since disposables…