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Recreational marijuana sales kick off in Arizona
Recreational marijuana sales have started in Arizona, with many of the state’s medical-marijuana dispensaries getting the OK on Friday to open sales to anyone 21 or older. A Harvest Health and Recreation dispensary in Scottsdale got approval at about noon. The staff quickly broke out signs showing where recreational customers would check…
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FDA Seizes $720,000 of Counterfeit and Unauthorised Vapes
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in conjunction with the FDA, have recently seized a shipment of over 33,000 counterfeit and unauthorised e-cigarettes while in transit from China to Texas. Upwards of 40 separate shipments, valued at an estimated $720,000, were found to contain replicas of Puff Bar products –…
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Hong Kong Customs seized HK$26 million illicit cigarettes and tax unpaid HNB products
On January 15, Hong Kong Customs seized about 8.9 million suspected illicit cigarettes and 600,000 suspected HNB cartridges with tax unpaid in Ping Che. The estimated market value is approximately HK$26 million and the taxable value is approximately HK$18 million. The Customs believes that the operation has smashed a suspected…
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MR FOG vape cooperates with Shenzhen police to fight counterfeiting
Recently, MR FOG, a vape brand in the United States, announced the results of an anti-counterfeiting operation in China conducted in conjunction with Shenzhen police. Before the operation, the police and the MR FOG brand had a large number of clues through e-commerce channels and supply chain channels. After receiving…
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China e-cigarette industry current status and future
In recent years, major participants in the e-cigarette industry such as RELX, SnowPlus, Moti, Yooz, Smoore International have enjoyed the dividends brought about by the rapid development of the industry. However, since e-cigarettes were banned from online sales on November 1 last year in China, rumors about e-cigarettes were overwhelming,…
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Bend vape shop reacts to hefty new e-cigarette tax
Effective Friday, Oregon Measure 108 increases the tax on cigarettes and imposes a sizable new tax on e-cigarette vaping products. We talked with a Bend vape shop owner about the impact on his business. Videos
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Chinese e-cigarette companies have two major advantages
At present, there are approximately one billion traditional cigarette consumers in the world. However, with the increasing strictness of tobacco control in various countries and the awakening of consumers’ health awareness, the traditional cigarette market has continued to decline. At the same time, the market size of electronic cigarettes based…
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China e-cigarette companies enter the certification stage
At the 4th International Electronic Cigarette Industry Summit Forum, the China Electronics Chamber of Commerce (CECC) and the China Electronics Standardization Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (CESI) issued the first batch of China e-cigarette appliance certifications to 14 e-cigarette companies, the Electronic Cigarette Industry Committee of…
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China offline channels: collective store form, specialty store subsidy
“Collective store form, specialty store subsidy”-the image store policy that has been popular with dealers in China a few days ago has begun to bear fruit. According to analysis by industry insiders, this kind of policy with high subsidies and flexible operation will likely affect the two distinct policy forms…
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Four successive fire disasters in China’s e-cigarette companies in November
At 06:30 on November 10, a fire broke out in a factory in Yulu Meijing Industrial Park, Yuchang East Road, Guangming District, Shenzhen. According to the Shenzhen Fire Bulletin, a fire broke out in a warehouse on the 3rd floor of an e-cigarette company where finished e-cigarettes were stored, and…
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