- The German Parliament recently passed a bill to officially legalize recreational marijuana. The new law will officially take effect on April 1, 2024.
- In December, China’s vape exports to New Zealand were approximately US$7.6 million, a decrease of 4.73% from the previous month and a decrease of 23.83% from the same period last year. The export volume was approximately 145 tons, a decrease of 2.48% from the previous month and a decrease of 7.19% from the same period last year.
- Philip Morris International (PMI) will build a cigarette factory in the southern Tanzanian city of Murogoro and purchase at least 12 million kilograms of Tanzanian tobacco annually over the next five years.
- The Georgian governmentof USannounced that it will ban disposable vapes by April 1, 2025.
- Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has completed a public consultation on vapes. The agency received more than 13,000 suggestions during online discussions, according to the data.
- British police seized nearly 3,000 pounds of illegal vapes from an vape business in Shrewsbury.
- UK Trading Standards officers intercepted thousands of illegal vapesin Port Humber.