San Francisco secures a $1 million settlement from online tobacco retailer Lucy Goods, Inc. for selling illegal flavored tobacco products.

As reported by KQED, Lucy Goods agreed in October to stop shipping flavored pouches to San Francisco, and that settlement, ...

As of Dec. 30, hundreds of Kentucky stores that sell smoking products seemed likely to miss the New Year’s Day deadline set ...

Jan. 1 -- cigarettes, vapes and other emerging tobacco products have been completely banned in Bangladesh as the Smoking and Tobacco Products Use Control (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 has come into ...

Retailers who applied before Jan. 1, 2026, can keep selling while their applications are reviewed under the new Senate Bill ...

Nearly 20 retail brands have said they're closing US stores this year, totaling over 4,100 locations. Twice-bankrupt Joann is the largest chain on the list, with 790 stores facing closure. Inditex, ...

A Teesside vape shop and the flat above have been slammed with a closure order after almost 30,000 illegal cigarettes were seized from the premises. Stockton Council secured the three-month order for ...

Thousands of counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes have been seized from a shop following a council investigation. Oxfordshire County Council's trading standards team's raid netted 7,740 cigarettes, ...

A Barnsley convenience store has been told to close after investigators found hundreds of thousands of illegal cigarettes, unsafe food products and banned vapes. Lidia Mini Market, on Sheffield Road, ...

A man has been arrested following reports of a ram-raid incident in Hook in the early hours of Monday morning (December 15). Officers from Hampshire Police were called at 12.30am to a report that a ...

Without fail, any corporation accused of conspiring against public health will be compared to Big Tobacco. When oil companies downplayed the threat of climate change, they were allegedly following in ...

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