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If you are thinking about going on an overseas trip and want to take your vape with you it pays to do your research. We are lucky here in NZ that attitudes towards vaping are relaxed with promising prospects for future regulation. However, this is not the case for a lot of popular travel destinations.  Many countries in Asia such and Thailand, Singapore, Brunei and Taiwan have outright banned e-cigarettes with the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia recently joining this growing list. Despite stories you may hear of audacious travellers managing to bring their e-cigarettes into these countries without trouble, it is...

If we thought vaping regulations were bad in the UK, we should think ourselves lucky compared to the Australians. E-cigarettes are banned in the South Pacific country and in January a federal decision was quietly slipped through to uphold the ban on the devices, potentially costing Australian smokers 6000 Australian Dollars every year. SMOKING IN AUSTRALIA Tobacco tax is continuing to increase rapidly in Australia and current figures show that a smoker who gets through a 20 pack a day will spend 7300 Australian Dollars every year. The Australian government are therefore trying to force smokers to quit the habit or...