- The Philippine Anti-Crime Watchdog Group called on President Marcos to address corruption within the Customs Bureau, fearing that $8.52 million worth of seized vapesmay have been sold, and suggested a re-inventory of warehouses.
- Wang Gongcheng, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration of China, met with Erin Dale, director of the Australian Illegal Tobacco and VapeManagement Bureau, in Beijing, and the two sides held friendly talks.
- British American Tobacco Kenya announced that it would sell its idle oral nicotine bag factory equipment because the government did not approve the product commercialization license.
- Scottish Green Party MPs warned that vapesare still being discarded into the environment on an almost “industrial scale” and a nationwide recycling plan is imminent. Green Party MPs called on the whole of the UK to act quickly to ensure that vapesare recycled.
- The Indonesian government has issued new regulations prohibiting the sale of tobacco and vapeswithin 200 meters of schools and children’s play areas. The new regulations also restrict the sale of tobacco products to those under 21 and pregnant women, and prohibit the retail of single cigarettes.
- Vitaly Mironov, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Family Protection, Fatherhood, Motherhood and Children’s Affairs, proposed banning vapesat the legislative level. He believes that the country has entered a period of rampant vapesand reminds people of the harm of vapes to the body.