The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has revealed that over 27, 000 ads were withdrawn or amended across 2023 as a result of its work.
Labour calls for a ban on marketing vapes to children
A Labour MP has called for the ban of marketing vapes with brightly coloured packaging and branding, in an aim to ‘protect children from addiction’.
TikTok Elf Bar and HQD vape ads featuring Gogglebox star George Baggs banned
Two separate TikTok ads for vape brands Elf Bar and HQD have been banned by the ASA for breaching nicotine and age-related ad codes.
Juul e-cigarette brand will pay £380m to end investigation into its ad campaigns
Juul Labs is set to fork out $438.5 million (£380 million) in a deal with 33 US states to end investigations into its advertising campaigns.
Cigarette flavour-enhancing brand has ‘misleading’ ad banned
Smokepops LDN, a brand that sells flavour-enhancing balls designed to be inserted into cigarette filters, has had three ads banned by the ASA.
‘Elf Bar’ vaping brand breaks advertising rules by selling to children
‘Elf Bar’, a Chinese e-cigarette brand, has broken British advertising rules by promoting its products to young people.