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Australia To Ban Recreational Vaping In E-Cigarette Crackdown

Australia has banned recreational vaping and tightened other aspects of e-cigarette laws in the biggest crackdown on the tobacco industry in more than a de...

Altria To Buy E-Cigarette Startup NJOY For $2.8 bn, Exit Juul Investment

Altria Group Inc said on Monday it would buy e-cigarette startup NJOY Holdings Inc for about $2.75 billion in cash, in fresh bets by the Marlboro maker on...

Juul Secures Funds To Stay Afloat, Plans To Cut 400 Jobs

Juul Labs Inc has secured an investment from some of its early investors that will keep the e-cigarette maker in business, the company said on Thursday, ad...

Altria Opts To End Non-Compete Agreement With Juul

Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc said on Friday it had exercised its option to be released from its non-compete deal with e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc.

BAT Maintains Forecast As Demand For Tobacco Alternatives Rises

British American Tobacco has maintained its full-year profit and sales forecasts, as more people are switching to the tobacco company's Vuse vaping and Vel...

British American Tobacco Sees First-Half Sales Beat Expectations

British American Tobacco (BAT) has reported better-than-expected revenue for the first half of its financial year, with the tobacco firm seeing increased c...

Imperial Brands Off To Good Start, Eyes Vaping Improvement

Imperial Brands Plc said on Tuesday it is off to a 'good start' this year as the maker Gauloises and Winston cigarettes looks to capitalise on higher...

Vaping Linked To Risk Of COVID-19 In Teens, Young Adults: Study

Vaping may be associated with a five to seven times increased risk of COVID-19 among US teenagers and young adults, a study suggests. Researchers at the...