Tag: Scotland
Scotland: Government Releases New Tobacco Control Action Plan
Earlier this week the Scottish Government published a new tobacco control action plan which will formally ban smoking around hospital buildings, jails, school grounds...
Scotland tightens e-cig rules, but new studies bring good news
Scotland bans e-cig sales to under-18s
Scotland’s new health act came into force on 1 April, bringing a range of new restrictions – including a...
Marketing controversy strikes industry as lawmakers seek tougher restrictions
Pro-vaping researcher attacks “irresponsible” e-liquid marketing
Prominent vaping advocate and cardiologist Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos has launched an attack on segments of the liquid industry, strongly...
NNA adds another country, but Scotland disrupts new advertising rules
NNA expands to Sweden
The New Nicotine Alliance and its sister organisation in Australia are well known to most vapers in these countries, thanks to...
A good week for pro-vaping science, but council bans continue to...
Legislators aren’t looking at the evidence, however, and one of Scotland’s councils has just introduced a ban on vaping anywhere on its property. This...
Scotland: Study confirms a rise in vaping and a drop in...
A Scottish health survey carried out in 2015 discovered that the number of vapers has increased to 7% of the Scottish population from 5%...
Scottish Tobacco Control pushes Ecigs plain packaging
The Union’s Department of Tobacco Control in Edinburgh (UK), a global leader in the fight against tobacco use, seized up the World No Tobacco...
Scotland: Ecigs are now allowed in hospital’s grounds
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's Director of Public Health, Dr Emilia Crighton announced that e-cigarettes can from now on be used on NHS Greater Glasgow &...
