Vape and Vaping

E-cigarettes have exploded in popularity over the last decade. Now a multi-billion dollar market, an increasing number of celebrities are leveraging their star power to break into the vaping business.

As the vape industry continues its meteoric rise, celebrities from the sports, music and entertainment worlds are capitalizing on the booming vape trend. Household names like Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, Hulk Hogan, Snoop Dogg, Berner and Afroman have established branded e-cig and CBD lines trading on their famous personas. These controversial stars are drawn to a sector with bags of growth potential and synergies with their bad boy images. This article explores the celebrity vaping entrepreneurs making waves in the emerging e-cigarette landscape.

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More than 13 tonnes of disposable vapes with a street value of $4.5m have been seized by Australian Border Force officers.

The 150,000 disposable vapes found in air cargo consignments in Adelaide comprise the first large-scale seizure since the ban on the importation of disposable single-use vapes came into effect on 1 January.

A December 2022 regulation from Indonesia’s Finance Ministry created a dedicated 10% excise tax on e-cigarettes and vape liquids alongside around 10% increased levies on traditional cigarettes. Justification cites leveling the playing field across nicotine categories.

This policy aligns with recent stern government health warnings over emerging vaping risks – including official declarations equating e-cigarette hazards to smoking despite contrary global evidence.

Some public health experts argue Indonesia should instead tax cigarettes higher given indisputable links to disease and applying similar cost deterrence measures against reduced risk alternatives illogically implies risk equivalence.

The U.K. government has announced its intention to ban the sale of disposable vapes as part of a broader legislative package aimed at curbing an “alarming rise” in youth vaping. The package, introduced on Monday by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, would also allow the government to regulate flavors, as well as how cartridges are packaged and displayed in shops. “You talk to any parent or teacher, they’ll talk to you about the worrying rise in vaping among children,” Sunak told reporters, according to the Associated Press. “Children shouldn’t be vaping, we don’t want them to get addicted. We still don’t understand the full long-term health impacts of vaping. So it is right we take strong action to stamp this out.” The measures, which have yet to be approved by Parliament, could potentially be packaged alongside previously announced legislation to permanently prohibit the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009. Sunak’s administration has repeatedly reinforced its commitment “to [bringing] about the first smokefree generation” before the issue becomes “endemic,” as he put it on Monday.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/uk-to-ban-disposable-vapes-in-bid-to-keep-them-out-of-kids-hands