After scrapping a plan several months ago to ban people born after 2008 from buying tobacco cigarettes, the New Zealand government on Wednesday announced a total ban on single-use e-cigarettes—also known as disposable vapes—and said it will increase the fines on retailers selling cigarettes and vapes to those under 18, in the country’s latest approach … Read more
Vape flavours for sale on display in shop window, Essex, England. Ucg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images The U.K. government on Monday announced it will ban disposable vapes, citing an “alarming rise” in the number of young people using them. There will also be new restrictions on how vapes can be packaged and … Read more
Australia will ban the importation of disposable vapes starting Jan. 1, the government announced on Tuesday, citing concerns of young people becoming addicted to nicotine. Plans for an import ban on nonprescription vaping products were first announced in May, as part of a broader set of legislation aimed at cracking down on the vape industry … Read more