Tobacco and Vapes Bill returns to Lords ahead of vape tax and price rises The UK’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill has returned to the House of Lords for further scrutiny, as MPs and peers enter the final stages of parliamentary “ping pong” and pressure mounts from retailers and…

🚨 Brace yourselves for the UK VAPE TAX! 🚨 Starting October 2026, the price of your e-liquid is about to MORE THAN DOUBLE. A standard 50ml bottle is jumping from £11.99 to over £25?! Uncover exactly how the Tobacco & Vapes Bill will raid your wallet 👇 clearingtheair.eu/post/tobacco...

Why Public Health Hates Consumers | Chris Snowdon on Clearing the Air In this episode Peter Beckett sits down with Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute for Economic Affairs, to discuss whether or not nicotine is part of the culture war,…

"Trust the experts," they said. But what happens when the experts are the ones deliberately spreading misinformation? 🚨 In the latest episode of Clearing the Air, we sat down with @cjsnowdon to discuss how Tobacco Control fails consumers. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/why-...

Dutch flavour ban pushed some vapers into smoking, study suggests 40% of vapers reduced use after the ban, including 22% who quit entirely 6% started smoking cigarettes and linked this to the policy 10.8% reported using alternative products more, “predominantly…

🤯 Researchers are trying to call the Dutch vape flavour ban a "success" while burying the fact that it drove significant numbers of people to start smoking cigarettes! Read how top scientists are completely tearing this narrative apart 👇 clearingtheair.eu/post/dutch-f...

State backing may be key to vape-assisted quitting, commentary says England’s “Swap to Stop” scheme was linked to a rise in vape-assisted quit attempts Around 125,000 additional attempts were estimated in the first year Researchers suggest government backing may…

125,000 extra smokers just tried to quit in a single year. How? England’s government actually ENDORSED vaping instead of demonising it. When the state backs harm reduction, public trust returns and smokers listen. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/stat...

Smoke-Free or Nicotine-Free? Clive Bates Unpacks the Split in Tobacco Harm Reduction Public health advocate Clive Bates, founder of the influential blog The Counterfactual, joins Clearing the Air's Peter Beckett for a candid discussion on the current battles in the world of tobacco…

Does the public health establishment want a smoke-free world or a nicotine-free world? 🤔 We sat down with Clive Bates at the @WNC_global to unpack the reality of tobacco policy. Prohibition doesn't end demand; it just triggers a massive black market response. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/smok...

9/10 Dutch vapers are using illegal products, new research shows Almost nine in ten people who vape in the Netherlands are using illegal products or buying through illegal channels, according to new research - after a nationwide ban on flavoured vapes. The study,…

Prohibition always fails. Always. A disastrous Dutch flavour ban has instantly created a booming black market, with nearly 90% of vapers now using illegal products. When will politicians learn that bans don't work? clearingtheair.eu/post/9-10-du...

When you ignore the science, the citizens, the European Parliament, AND small businesses... the whole process is completely broken. 🤦‍♂️ How can we trust an evaluation built on bias and excluded voices? We demand better. fixtheflaws.eu

Ireland urged to explore Australia-style pharmacy-only vape sales Calls to restrict vape sales to pharmacies have resurfaced in Ireland, after a regional health forum asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to examine whether an Australian-style model could help…

IMPORTING A DISASTER. Australia's pharmacy-only vape ban fueled a massive, dangerous black market with millions in illegal seizures. So naturally, politicians in Ireland want to copy it exactly! clearingtheair.eu/post/ireland...

187,000 small, family-run businesses ignored. 🏪 The EU claims to "Think Small First," but completely bypassed the SME Test for this policy. How can you regulate without assessing the impact on everyday livelihoods? 6/6 fixtheflaws.eu

OPINION: The Commission just buried its own report on tobacco law. Why? The EU is right to be ashamed of its evaluation report on nicotine policy. Even its own watchdogs have disowned it. Two years ago, I wrote about the EU Commission burying its own smoking data, and…

THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE. The EU’s own watchdog just ripped their anti-nicotine crusade to shreds, stating they don't have the proof to claim safer products are harmful. The Commission's response? Bury the watchdog's warning and publish the lies anyway. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/opin...

The mandate was clear: evaluate e-cigarettes and heated tobacco against combustible products. The result? Nothing. 🤷‍♂️ Why is the Commission ignoring direct requests from the European Parliament to follow the science? 📉🚭 fixtheflaws.eu

Orbán loses in Hungary. Could this spell the end for Olivér Várhelyi as Health Commissioner? The Hungarian Commissioner and Orbán loyalist has been at the vanguard of spreading outright falsehoods about safer nicotine products. Now Orbán is gone, will he go too? Many in Brussels were popping…

🚨 Viktor Orbán is OUT! Following a massive election defeat, his fiercely anti-vaping (and anti-science) EU Health Commissioner is now stranded in Brussels, and caught in the middle of a wild spy ring scandal. Are the walls closing in on Olivér Várhelyi? clearingtheair.eu/en/post/orba...

Who is lying about risk-reduced products, and why? From our interview with MEP Charlie Weimers at this year's inaugural World Nicotine Congress. Full interview here youtu.be/6OqgxgOkV60

Vaping cancer review sparks expert backlash over ‘deeply misleading’ claims A new paper suggesting links between vaping and cancer has triggered strong criticism from leading experts, who warn its conclusions are “misleading” and risk confusing the public. The study,…

"No smoking gun." "Lacks credibility." "Deeply misleading." 🤯 Leading scientists are furious over a new paper trying to link vaping to cancer without actual proof. Why was this highly selective, low-quality review even published? Find out here: clearingtheair.eu/post/vaping-...

🚨 Only 26% of the literature reviewed actually used EU data. 🚨 The evidence base? Pre-2017 stats from just 10 Member States, with ZERO meaningful harm reduction analysis. You can't make modern policy with outdated, incomplete facts. 🛑🇪🇺 fixtheflaws.eu

Vaping overtakes smoking for the first time in UK, CoEHAR analysis shows Vaping has surpassed smoking in Great Britain for the first time on record 10.0% of adults now use vapes, compared with 9.1% who smoke Smoking has halved since 2011, falling from 20.2% to 10.6% The…

🚨 History made. 🚨 Vaping has officially overtaken smoking in the UK for the first time ever. With smoking rates halved since 2011, the shift to lower-risk alternatives is undeniable. 🚭🇬🇧 #PublicHealth #HarmReduction clearingtheair.eu/post/vaping-...

They didn't want your input. They tried to exclude consumers entirely. But after fighting for a seat at the table, over 24,000 citizens responded—and 77% made it clear that smokeless products help people quit smoking. 3/6 fixtheflaws.eu

Vaping rises as smoking declines to record low, new CDC data shows Cigarette smoking in the United States has fallen to its lowest level on record, as vape use continues to rise, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The…

The CDC just confirmed it: smoking in America is at its lowest level EVER (9.8%). The secret? Vaping is working. 💨 Don't let the alarmists spin this historic public health win as a negative. clearingtheair.eu/post/vaping-...

€3M awarded to anti-harm-reduction NGOs without the required competitive selection or conflict-of-interest checks. When EU rules are blatantly bypassed to evaluate policy, we need to ask: why was the process ignored? 💶🇪🇺 #fixtheflaws 2/6

How does a "commitment to evidence" turn into a consultation built purely on opinion? 🤔 The Commission's Call for Evidence failed to deliver the objective data it promised. MEPs need to hold the process accountable and #fixtheflaws.

With the release of the long awaited TPD Evaluation report, we call on MEPs to #fixtheflaws and to help explain why is was so bad, we have put together some handy infographics to break it all down.

EU tax plan could target vapes to fund cancer strategy A new proposal in the European Parliament could see vapes taxed across the EU to help fund future cancer programmes. According to a report by Romanian MEP Vlad Voiculescu, the bloc should raise €2…

Vapes = Combustible Tobacco?! 🤯 The EU’s bizarre new logic: “Smoking causes cancer, so let’s aggressively tax SAFER nicotine alternatives to pay for it!” You won't believe the massive €2 Billion cash grab Brussels is plotting clearingtheair.eu/post/eu-tax-...

The EU’s Bloomberg Report Part 1 David Zaruk is an environmental-health risk analyst with over 30 years experience on European policy issues. He is the editor of The Firebreak and also publishes as The Risk-Monger. The corruption…

EXPOSED: How Michael Bloomberg BOUGHT the EU's latest tobacco policy. 💰🧵In the first of a two parter, @peterbeckett and @zaruk take a deep dive into the @EU_Commission's ridiculous process that led to today's flawed report on safer #nicotine products clearingtheair.eu/en/post/the-...

Russia backs plan for full vape ban Russia has taken a major step toward banning vapes, after a government commission backed plans to prohibit their production, import and sale. The State Commission for Combating Illicit Trafficking in…

In Russia, where 32% of males smoke and the vaping industry is already 68% black market, hapless regulators think officially banning them will make them disappear. 🎩✨ it's just a 250 billion ruble gift for the organised crime. #slowclap clearingtheair.eu/post/russia-...

“Plainly absurd and wholly unacceptable” – Swedish Socialists demand Strasbourg travel ban Swedish Socialists in the European Parliament have demanded that MEPs not travel to Strasbourg while French law levies potential five year prison terms for anyone found in possession of nicotine…

Sweden to the EU: We aren't going to Strasbourg to be arrested. 🏛️🥊 All 5 Swedish Socialist MEPs have demanded a total travel ban on the "Strasbourg Circus" until France drops its plan to jail pouch users for 5 years. 📉🚫 clearingtheair.eu/en/post/plai...

Belgium pushes EU for tougher vape rules as minister warns of “epidemic” Belgium’s health minister has urged the European Union to tighten rules on vapes, warning that use is becoming an “epidemic” and calling for a bloc-wide crackdown. Speaking during a visit by Michael…

After his stunning failure in Belgium, enemy of common sense, Frank Vandenbroucke, is doing his best to export his particular brand of harm promotion to the rest of the EU. clearingtheair.eu/post/belgium...

Illegal vape trade “everywhere” despite bans, undercover film finds Undercover filming shows illegal vapes being sold in shops, on social media and from car boots Young people say it is easy to access banned products, often via Snapchat or friends One in five stores…

Frank Vandenbroucke is selling a lie to Brussels. 🇪🇺🤥 He’s lobbying for EU-wide vape restrictions while his own failed policies have left Belgium in a complete mess. The "Just No Reason" film proves that the only thing his ban has created is a lawless black market. clearingtheair.eu/post/illegal...

No clear evidence vaping causes oral disease, new CoEHAR review finds Review of 12 human studies found mixed and inconsistent results on oral bacteria in people who use vapes Some differences in oral microbiota were observed, but no consistent pattern linked to disease…

2026 Review on Vaping & Oral Disease... Evidence: Inconsistent and "very low" certainty. 📉 Link to Disease: Not established. ❌ Comparison: Far less harmful than smoking. ✅ clearingtheair.eu/en/post/no-c...

Swedish MEP warns EU not to undermine country’s harm reduction approach A Swedish member of the European Parliament has urged the European Commission not to weaken access to safer nicotine alternatives, as debate grows over future EU rules on tobacco and nicotine…

Sweden didn't join the EU to have its public health hijacked. 🇸🇪🥊 MEP Jessica Polfjärd just reminded the Commission that Sweden’s snus exemption is a foundational part of its EU agreement. Taxing or restricting nicotine pouches is a betrayal of Sweden’s sovereignty. clearingtheair.eu/post/swedish...

Australia ramps up crackdown on illicit tobacco and vapes as black market booms Australia’s government is preparing a major crackdown on the illicit trade in tobacco and vapes, as officials warn the problem has escalated into a serious organised crime issue. Assistant Minister…

Australia’s pharmacy-only vape model has officially collapsed. With 95.7% of the market now illegal, the government’s response isn't better health, it’s wiretaps and asset seizures. They aren't protecting users; they’re fighting a war they started. 🪖🥊 clearingtheair.eu/post/austral...