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Taxation, flavours, sales rules: the European Union is weighing how to regulate products that some present as harm reduction tools, and that a growing number of consumers use.
Read moreFaced with the decline of the conventional cigarette market, British American Tobacco is launching a worldwide restructuring involving several thousand job cuts.
Read moreThe Polish government wants to ban puffs and remove the flavours from nicotine pouches. A further tightening of the rules whose consequences the sector already fears.
Read moreFrench tobacconists accuse Snapchat of letting advertisements for smuggled cigarettes prosper. A case that sheds light on the parallel tobacco trade online.
Read moreCigarette sales are falling in French tobacconists while vaping keeps growing. What this shift in habits says about the place of nicotine in France.
Read moreThe criminal court in Paris has fined Philip Morris France 500,000 euros for unlawful advertising around IQOS and VEEV. What the ruling changes for manufacturers.
Read moreBelgium plans to ban flavours in electronic cigarettes from September 2028, with the exception of tobacco taste. A decision that could inspire other European countries.
Read moreFrom Marseille to La Ciotat, the 23rd Calanques Propres brought together volunteers, associations and local authorities to collect and analyse coastal waste, butts included.
Read moreA trailer showing cigarette brands has earned Netflix a fine of 250,000 euros. The ruling is a reminder that the Évin Act also applies to content published online.
Read moreMembers of parliament want to extend the plain packaging principle to e-liquids and electronic cigarettes. A proposal that reopens the debate between public health and trade.
Read moreCigarette breaks are said to cost French companies 5 billion euros a year. Where that yearly figure comes from, and what its method of calculation leaves out.
Read moreAccording to an anti-smoking association, many specialist shops depart from the advertising rules that govern vaping. A look at a poorly monitored sector.
Read moreThe European Public Prosecutor’s Office and Europol have dismantled a counterfeit cigarette network active in five countries. Shipping containers and false papers: the method uncovered.
Read moreThe French national committee against smoking criticises Luxembourg for tobacco taxation it considers too low, which feeds cross-border buying. The terms of a European debate.
Read moreWHO Europe is calling on states to regulate vaping like tobacco, citing its growth among teenagers. The figures put forward and the measures demanded.
Read moreCustoms report 547.94 tonnes of smuggled tobacco seized in 2025, up on the previous year. What the review says about the organisation of the parallel market.
Read moreIn the United Kingdom, a ban on cigarette filters has not been voted, but several parliamentary initiatives are putting it on the agenda. Where the matter really stands.
Read moreAn approval order sets the tobacco prices applicable from 1 March 2026. Unchanged references, increases by brand and weighted average price: a reading of the official list.
Read moreTobacco counterfeiting in France no longer stops at trafficking in packs: seven clandestine factories have been dismantled since 2021. Methods, figures and criminal networks.
Read moreThe city of Nice is equipping its tobacconists with an alert button linked to the municipal police. How the system works and the background of assaults behind it.
Read moreUnifab and its partners have launched an information campaign in Paris on counterfeit cigarettes, and on what it says about a traffic that is growing fast.
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