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Bronchitis red flag symptoms as vaping linked to painful lung infection
Smoking
New research has discovered that those who vape are at risk of developing bronchitis if they - or others around them - smoke normal cigarettes.
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North Lanarkshire Council Trading Standards Officers seize counterfeit and illicit cigarettes and tobacco
Trading Standards Scotland
A total of 24,500 cigarettes and 7.55kg of hand rolling tobacco were removed from four premises in Airdrie, Coatbridge, Wishaw and Newmains.
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Trading Standards checks reveal most shops in North Lanarkshire carry out checks when selling tobacco and nicotine vaper items
Smoking
Officers visited 49 shops, with 43 (88 per cent) correctly refusing to sell the age restricted products.
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Vaping retailer launches recycling service in Airdrie and Coatbridge
Environment
VPZ, in partnership with WasteCare, has announced ambitions to responsibly recycle all kinds of vaping devices throughout 2023.
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Tobacco price hikes explained as smokers face 15% increase from tonight
Tobacco
Jeremy Hunt has raised tobacco duty by the rate of inflation plus an extra two per cent.
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Lanarkshire community groups urged to apply for ASH Scotland funding to address harms caused by smoking
Smoking
Charity offering organisations £500 to cover salary, travel or material costs associated with engaging people in their community about the threats caused by tobacco.
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Thieves plough motor into Scots off-licence before stealing booze and fags causing £10k damage
Police Scotland
Crooks ploughed a green Kia Sportage into the Premier store on Claypotts Road in Broughty Ferry, Dundee in an early morning booze blitz.
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Experts explain why you should never give up vaping by going 'cold turkey'
Tobacco
LloydsPharmacy has shared their expert advice on how to kick the e-cigarette habit for good.
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Almost two tonnes of illegal tobacco seized from Wishaw haulage depot
HMRC
An incredible 1.8 tonnes of compressed raw tobacco leaf was discovered and seized by HMRC officers.
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Almost half of shops tested in North Lanarkshire failed underage tobacco sales checks
Trading Standards Scotland
The service regularly utilises young volunteers to carry out purchase exercises
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VAT scam student caught importing 40,000 cigarettes into Scotland in suitcases
Courts
The 27-year-old, from London, admitted his guilt over the £8,000 fraud at Paisley Sheriff Court.
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Crash motorist hid thousands of illicit cigarettes down embankment of M74
Lanarkshire Crime
Ayub Said, 41, was caught following a collision with an HGV near Abington, South Lanarkshire in 2018, and sentenced this week.
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Menthol and flavoured cigarette ban starts today and Scots expert hopes it's the end of "global success" for tobacco companies
Smoking
It is now illegal to manufacture or sell menthol cigarettes
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Menthol cigarettes to be banned under tough new EU rules on tobacco
Tobacco
MENTHOL ciggies will be banned from 2020 and all tobacco will be sold in standardised green packaging.
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Pregnant women warned that using e-cigs may be harming their unborn babies
Pregnancy
RESEARCH has suggested that 'vaping' damages the nervous system of foetus's, making it just as harmful as smoking ordinary tobacco.
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Shop selling counterfeit tobacco does roaring trade just yards from major police station
Tobacco
CITY crime gang cashes in by flogging fake baccy that can contain unknown chemicals and even rat droppings for half the price of normal packet.
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Exposed: The US tobacco firms treating farm workers like slaves
Human rights
DESPERATE workers on American tobacco farms are living like slaves as they toil from dawn till dusk for a pittance, according to a damning report.
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Chinese takeaway couple make a killing selling dodgy Far East cigarettes from their Scots shop
Tobacco
CIGARETTES sold from New Beijing carry-out shop in Arbroath are part of wave of illegal tobacco products flooding Angus area.
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Aberdeen newsagent to become first Scottish shop to be banned from selling tobacco products
Tobacco
ABERDEEN city council applied for the ban after Shriraj Gindha was repeatedly caught selling tobacco to underage people.
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Illegal tobacco sales claims denounced
Tobacco
Claims that illegal sales of tobacco are funding organised crime in Stirling have been condemned as scaremongering by a Stirling University expert.
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Fake ciggies being sold on the black market in Paisley's pubs and shops
Renfrewshire Council
Investigation found  illegal tobacco was readily available
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Cigarettes and tobacco to be sold in plain packaging as Scotland bids to become 'smoke free' by 2034
Smoking
SCOTTISH Public Health Minister Michael Matheson also set target to reduce number of smokers in Scotland by 2034 to help improve health.
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Scottish Government sets date for tobacco display and vending machine bans
Tobacco
THE law preventing the display of cigarettes in Scotland's large shops will come into effect on April 29.
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New anti-smoking campaign urges millions of Scots to stub it out
Tobacco
FOR thousands of Scots it’s the toughest New Year’s ­resolution to keep - giving up smoking.
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