The UK’s latest anti-vape plan risks making the switch away from cigarettes harder, not easier.
Plain packaging, drab colours, flavour restrictions and hiding products from view reduces the appeal of regulated alternatives for adults who smoke, while doing little to tackle illegal supply.
The choice is not between regulation and no regulation. It is between effective regulation and a market operating outside the rules.
The government can protect young people through age verification, retailer licensing and enforcement against illegal sellers, while also preserving adult access to regulated smoke-free alternatives.
Prohibition removes lawful supply, not demand. It just changes who supplies the market.
https://t.co/2BN4RvWMzx
🇨🇦@davidcclement says it plainly. Banning flavours harms the adults who rely on them to stay off cigarettes while doing little for adolescents. Every country that tried it got the same result. https://t.co/JtqnCSlCnp
Big news from the FDA. Historic news, actually!
On June 30, 2026, the agency authorized 20 nicotine pouch products to be marketed with a modified risk claim, meaning they can now officially state that using pouches instead of cigarettes puts you at lower risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.
At Considerate Pouchers USA, we've always believed that adults deserve accurate, science-based information about the products they choose.
Today, the FDA agreed, officially, in writing.
Nicotine is not tobacco. Treating them as the same blocks people who smoke from switching away from the most harmful delivery forms of tobacco. This is about ideology vs lives saved. https://t.co/N2EI6kYt4a
"I have a partner who is fit and well [after switching to vapes], and I’m not his carer, which I may have become."
It's not just health and the elimination of secondhand smoke, impacted people tell @KiranSidhu51, but relationships and quality of life:
https://t.co/PkRL38wRti
@DanielPriestley@ReemAmirIbrahim@garyseconomics They’re barely coming for wealth. Their coming for the salaried class again - earn 100-200k in the UK you get absolutely punished, diminishing opportunities to optimize tax with shrinking ISA and shrinking Pension opportunities, means no way to save effectively and get ahead.
Argentina won 3-0.
Did you know they also scored off the pitch?
In May, they ended a 15-year ban, replacing prohibition with a science-based framework.
Resolution 549/2026.
This is exactly what problem-solving innovation looks like.🇦🇷
"The EU should not harmonise failure." @PDNWmedia has published its excellent response to the EU call for evidence on tobacco products. Well worth a read. https://t.co/rw8wL3KzQD
We have submitted comments to the European Commission’s tobacco review warning that bans on flavours, nicotine pouches, disposable vapes, and other smoke-free alternatives would repeat the failures of prohibition already seen around the world.
https://t.co/tMwYdSXFSr
Common sense from @FDATobacco — if your vaping product comes with device access restrictions to limit use to adults, that should reduce the evidentiary burden needed for authorization.
But this directly contradicts the language of pending FDA guidance.
https://t.co/YZwuFGBpMC
Serious concerns have been raised about the increased threat to Australia from organised crime after suspected tobacco smugglers brazenly shot at a boat involved in an Australian Border Force operation.
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"When people who successfully stop smoking through vaping hear official messaging that focuses almost exclusively on risks, concerns, and potential harms while largely ignoring the benefits they experience firsthand, a conflict begins to emerge. Consumers naturally compare what they are being told with what they observe in their own lives. When those two things do not align, many begin to question the messenger rather than their own experience."
https://t.co/YUZFASLfka
Rohan Pike talks at #GFN26 about the disastrous results of ecig prohibition in Australia:
- weekly drive by shootings
- hundreds of firebombings
- 20 illicit stores in 1km in his hometown
- criminal networks are now expanding to alcohol sales
🎥 WATCH our lead spokesman @Tim_Andrews explain the economic impact of prohibition
at @GFNicotine this morning:
Bans do not make demand disappear. They force consumers underground and drain revenue from the legal economy.
Tune in at 9:30am CEST.
Link below 👇
#GFN26
Michael Ellis explains why Prohibition Does Not Work at #GFN26 👇
Prohibition does not affect demand. It affects who supplies it.
Banning safer products pushes consumers towards black markets where criminals control quality, safety and access.