PRODUCT WATCH ROUNDUP We’ve added new information to ASH Wales Product Watch about nicotine products that may be less familiar. Pouchless nicotine pods have a UK-facing retail listing: these small oral portions have no outer pouch and are not designed to melt. We’ve also added international examples of ultra-thin and semi-gel nicotine pouches, and updated our page on gels, creams, sprays and nasal inhalers. UK or Welsh availability has not been established for those international examples. These updates explain what the products are, what is verified and what remains uncertain. They do not establish how widely any product is used in Wales.

Public Health Wales has launched free bilingual vaping support, including an adult-focused Help Me Quit app module and resources for professionals working with young people.

New restrictions on vape and nicotine sales, promotions and vending machines take effect today. The smokefree-generation tobacco rules follow in January.

🚬 Smoking in front of a ‘No Smoking’ sign? Dua Lipa's March 2025 photos are a striking example of how cigarettes appear in celebrity culture. ASH Wales' research found no identified tobacco partnership. So when does smoking become part of the aesthetic, and why does that matter?

More than half of Welsh adults who have heard of vapes wrongly believe vaping is as harmful as smoking or worse, new ASH Wales YouGov findings show.

A new UK excise duty on vaping products starts today, 1 October 2026. Here is what the £2.20 per 10ml duty, new vape duty stamps and higher tobacco duty mean in Wales.

The full ASH Wales Annual Adult Population Survey 2026 is now live, with new Wales evidence on smoking, vaping, quitting, inequalities and public attitudes.

New 2025 SHRN data shows regular vaping and smoking have fallen among secondary school learners in Wales. We look at the latest figures, what they mean and why prevention work still matters.

What does peer pressure look like? Sometimes it is obvious. Sometimes it looks more like a joke, a

A year ago, disposable vapes had become hard to miss. They were in shop displays, coat pockets, school

Wales’s leading tobacco control charity is today calling on all parties contesting the Senedd election to set out

This No Smoking Day 2026, we are encouraging the estimated 260,000 people in Wales who smoke to consider