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On March 25th, 2022, the Northwest Territories announced that it’s ban on the sale of flavoured vaping products will take effect. This ban was intended to better protect the public and youth from vaping as “a significant health hazard… causing acute lung injury”, despite overwhelming evidence that these events were linked to illegal THC products purchased from the illicit market, not legal nicotine vape products.

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance to ban the sale of the candy-flavored nicotine across the city.Officials said L.A. is now the most populous city in the nation to take flavored nicotine products, including menthol cigarettes, off store shelves.The council passed the motion with a 12-0 vote, garnering praise from health nonprofits like the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association.

Though brands of oral nicotine pouches were launched throughout the 2010s, it wasn’t until 2020 that they really took off. Sales of oral nicotine pouches have exploded in the years since, with sales increasing 541 percent between 2019 and 2022 — PMI’s Zyn having the largest market share. Not only ZYN ,but also sales of many nicotine pouches brands such as VELO, LYFT, WHITE FOX, DZRT,HELWIT,KILLA,PABLO are increasing sharply. It comes as no surprise that nicotine pouch use is now on the upswing among school-age children. In California, 1.1 percent of high schoolers reported using them regularly in 2023 – a number that nearly doubled in one year. Nicotine pouches were also the number two most common tobacco product eighth graders used in 2023, second only to vapes.

Hong Kong residents who vape or use heated tobacco products (HTPs) will face a grim reality since this May. That’s when a ban on sales and importation of vapes takes effect, and the vape market will instantly shift from legal to illegal.Hong Kong retailers report that sales of vape products have surged in recent weeks, as desperate vapers try to stockpile products. But 90 percent of recently polled HTP users say they will return to smoking cigarettes after the ban takes effect.

Philip Morris International (PMI) announced that its new corporate headquarters will be located in the heart of Stamford, Connecticut, and will open in summer 2022. The move will initially bring approximately 200 jobs to the state and the total economic impact of these jobs will be approximately $50 million in 2022. (Full press release.)

The Lithuanian Seimas (parliament) has finalized a law prohibiting the sale of vaping products in non-tobacco flavors. The flavor prohibition applies to all products, including those not containing nicotine. The legislation—which amends the country’s existing Law on Control of Tobacco, Tobacco Products and Related Products—passed by a 92-9 vote (with nine members abstaining), according to LRT. The ban will take effect July 1.