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Netherlands Wants EU to Freeze All New Nicotine ProductsThe Netherlands is pushing the EU to stop approving new nicotine products while it prepares to ban tobacco sales everywhere except specialty shops by 2032.
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WHO's advice to the EU on pouches: treat them like cigarettes, ban the flavours, ban the online salesWHO's European office has published its formal response to the EU Tobacco Products Directive revision: bring nicotine pouches, synthetic nicotine and analogues fully under tobacco rules, prohibit flavourings EU-wide and ban online sales outright.
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Germany's medical establishment tells the government: keep the pouch banA broad alliance of German medical associations, led by the Bundesärztekammer, has formally appealed to the government to keep the ban on nicotine pouch sales — direct pushback against industry calls to legalize and tax pouches for over €200 million a year.
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Sweden's election just put the EU's nicotine pouch tax on holdThe EU has pushed its vote on tobacco and nicotine tax changes from October to November, confirming that Sweden's post-election stalemate is stalling the bloc's first-ever nicotine pouch tax. Sweden remains the holdout — and under unanimity rules, it only takes one.
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Germany's nicotine pouch ban is leaking up to €368 million a yearGermany forbids the sale of tobacco-free nicotine pouches, yet around 1.5 million people use them regularly. The Bundestag's own research service now estimates the grey market is costing the state up to €368 million a year in lost tax — and the country is split on whether to legalize, regulate and tax, or keep the ban.