Dutch government outlaws supermarket cigarette sales from 2024
4 years, 1 month ago

Dutch government outlaws supermarket cigarette sales from 2024

NL Times  

From 2024, supermarkets in the Netherlands will no longer be allowed to sell cigarettes and other related products, the Dutch government confirmed on Friday. Tobacco products will no longer be sold in vending machines starting in 2022, and online tobacco sales will be forbidden the year after. After 6,400 supermarkets halt tobacco sales, only six thousand retailers will sell the products. "With this decision and the course we have set today, we will prevent a great many unnecessary deaths and medical suffering,” State Secretary Paul Blokhuis said in a statement.

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Over 200 tobacco shops opened since ban on tobacco sales for supermarkets
1 day, 19 hours ago

Over 200 tobacco shops opened since ban on tobacco sales for supermarkets

NL Times  

Over 200 tobacco shops have been opened in the Netherlands in the last year. There are currently almost 1,675 registered tobacco shops in the country when there were only 1,466 at the end of last year. Smokers can now only buy tobacco products at tobacco shops, convenience stores, gas stations, and wholesalers. NSO Retail, the trade association for tobacco entrepreneurs, …

Massachusetts lawmakers push for an effort to ban all tobacco sales over time
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Massachusetts lawmakers push for an effort to ban all tobacco sales over time

Associated Press  

BOSTON — A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state the first to adopt a ban meant to eliminate the use of tobacco products over time. Other locations have weighed similar “generational tobacco bans,” which phase out the use of tobacco products based not just on a person’s …

Tobacconists see turnover spike after cigarette ban in supermarkets
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tobacconists see turnover spike after cigarette ban in supermarkets

NL Times  

Now that supermarkets are no longer allowed to sell tobacco, tobacco shops' turnover has already increased by more than 40 percent this year, according to NSO Retail, the trade association for entrepreneurs with tobacco shops. According to research by TabakNee, a research website of the Youth Smoking Prevention Foundation, more than a hundred new tobacco shops have opened in the …

UK Proposes Legislation to Gradually Eliminate Smoking Tobacco and Vaping
7 months, 3 weeks ago

UK Proposes Legislation to Gradually Eliminate Smoking Tobacco and Vaping

Live Law  

The British government's plan for a landmark ban on smoking and vaping, spearheaded by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, has achieved a significant milestone as it passed its inaugural test in Parliament. Despite encountering significant resistance, notably from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's own Conservative Party, the Tobacco and Vapes Bill has cleared its first hurdle. 2043 Target The 2043 target outlined …

UK set to ban tobacco sales for a ‘smoke-free’ generation. Will it work?
8 months, 1 week ago

UK set to ban tobacco sales for a ‘smoke-free’ generation. Will it work?

Al Jazeera  

The UK’s smoking ban aims to phase out sales of tobacco, which is one of the main causes of cancer deaths in Britain. Parliament approved the government’s “historic” plans to create a “smoke-free” generation on Tuesday in a bid to reduce the number of people dying from smoking-related diseases, a big burden on the country’s publicly funded National Health Service. …

Ban on disposable vapes will not reduce consumption, says Dutch e-cigarette association
9 months ago

Ban on disposable vapes will not reduce consumption, says Dutch e-cigarette association

NL Times  

The announced sales ban on disposable vapes in Belgium, just like the flavor ban in the Netherlands, will not help young people use fewer e-cigarettes, said Emil 't Hart, chairman of the Dutch Industry Association of Electronic Cigarette Sellers. With the ban from January 1 next year, Belgium wants to ensure that young people, in particular, use fewer products containing …

Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products
9 months, 1 week ago

Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products

Associated Press  

— A Massachusetts town that adopted an unusual ordinance banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born in the 21st century is being looked at as a possible model for other cities and towns hoping to further clamp down on cigarettes and tobacco products. Critics of the Brookline law, including convenience store owners who rely on the sales of tobacco …

ING predicts that the ''malaise on the shopping street'' is not yet over
10 months ago

ING predicts that the ''malaise on the shopping street'' is not yet over

NL Times  

The "malaise on the shopping street" has not yet ended, despite consumers' increasing desire to make purchases, according to ING economist Katinka Jongkind. Retail sales were down three percent last year, and they will probably drop another 0.5 percent this year, Jongkind expected. "Supermarkets will lose over 1.5 billion euros in turnover due to the tobacco sales ban that comes …

Vaping ban violations: Centre issues public notice for stricter implementation of Act
1 year, 7 months ago

Vaping ban violations: Centre issues public notice for stricter implementation of Act

The Hindu  

May 22, 2023 07:44 pm | Updated 07:44 pm IST - New Delhi With e-cigarettes easily available online and at tobacco shops despite a ban, the Union Health Ministry has issued a public notice for stricter implementation of the Act which prohibits manufacture, sale and The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act came into force in 2019. In the notice issued …

Labour would ban cigarette sales to stamp out smoking, says Wes Streeting
1 year, 11 months ago

Labour would ban cigarette sales to stamp out smoking, says Wes Streeting

The Telegraph  

A Labour government could ban the sale of cigarettes in order to eradicate smoking by 2030, says the shadow health secretary. Wes Streeting said Labour would consult on banning the sale and purchase of cigarettes as part of a “radical” package of measures to stamp out smoking. He told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the Government needed to …

Dutch ban on flavored e-cigarettes to begin on October 1; Only tobacco flavor allowed
2 years ago

Dutch ban on flavored e-cigarettes to begin on October 1; Only tobacco flavor allowed

NL Times  

The Netherlands will ban all e-cigarette flavors except tobacco on October 1 next year, according to an amendment the government published in the Staatscourant. The government announced in 2020 that it planned to ban flavored e-cigarettes and vapes because they see it as a stepping stone for teenagers toward actual cigarettes. Vape liquids and e-cigarettes may no longer be sold …

Malaysia follows New Zealand, discusses bill to prohibit tobacco sales
2 years, 4 months ago

Malaysia follows New Zealand, discusses bill to prohibit tobacco sales

Hindustan Times  

Malaysia is considering a ban on smoking and the sale of all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to people born after 2007, joining New Zealand lawmakers in a once-unheard of move against one of the most common causes of death worldwide. Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said “In Malaysia, more than 400 people die every week because of reasons related to smoking” …

New Zealand to ban cigarette sales for future generations
3 years ago

New Zealand to ban cigarette sales for future generations

The Hindu  

New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long. "We want to make sure young people never start smoking so we will make it an offence to sell or supply smoked tobacco products …

New Zealand to ban tobacco sale to people born after 2008
3 years ago

New Zealand to ban tobacco sale to people born after 2008

Al Jazeera  

The government plans to introduce a law that, starting in 2027, will lift the smoking age by a year every year. New Zealand plans to raise the legal smoking age by one year every year, effectively banning the sale of tobacco to people born after 2008. The government will introduce new legislation next year that will progressively lift the smoking …

Netherlands to bans smoking zones in all public buildings starting this week
3 years, 5 months ago

Netherlands to bans smoking zones in all public buildings starting this week

NL Times  

Smoking areas in government and public buildings in the Netherlands will be prohibited from July 1, the government confirmed suddenly on Tuesday. The ban on smoking areas in public buildings was originally scheduled to enter into force in 2022. Making facilities where people work or visit smoke-free was one of the aims stated in the National Prevention Agreement, which State …

Smoking banned from train platforms as Stoptober campaign begins
4 years, 2 months ago

Smoking banned from train platforms as Stoptober campaign begins

NL Times  

Thursday was a difficult day for many tobacco users in the Netherlands, with smoking officially disallowed at all of the country's train stations and platforms, tobacco sales banned from station shops, and most tobacco products sold elsewhere will only be packaged in drab, muddy colors. Thursday also marks the start of Stoptober, an annual campaign where tens of thousands of …

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