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Ireland: Cigarette Packs Rise Above €20 and E-Liquid Tax Is Set to Increase

Ireland: Cigarette Packs Rise Above €20 and E-Liquid Tax Is Set to Increase

Ireland’s new budget has pushed the price of a pack of cigarettes past the symbolic €20 mark. Meanwhile, the tax on e-liquids is set to rise by 40%. Vaping Seen Above All as a Public Health RiskIreland is continuing its crusade against nicotine. On October 6, 2026, the new budget...

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GAO Finds 132,000 Tobacco Applications Still Stuck in FDA Backlog

GAO Finds 132,000 Tobacco Applications Still Stuck in FDA Backlog

Nearly 132,000 tobacco product applications remained unresolved at the end of 2025, and those applications had been waiting an average of 1,266 days for a decision, according to a new Government Accountability Office audit of the FDA's tobacco review program. The numbers expose the scale of a premarket system responsible...

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Where Can You Vape in the UK? Pubs, Trains, Work and the Law

Where Can You Vape in the UK? Pubs, Trains, Work and the Law

Here's the thing almost nobody knows: vaping indoors isn't illegal in the UK. Not in England, not in Scotland, not in Wales, not in Northern Ireland. There's no law against vaping in a pub, a shop, a restaurant, a cinema or an office. When a pub tells you to put...

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