Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 10th November 2022 || News analysis |
The minister responsible for primary care and public health has told UK members of parliament that the government expects applications next year for several vaping products to be medically licensed ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 2nd November 2022 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s denial of premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) for a number of Logic menthol e-cigarette products has been welcomed by public health organisations as “a step forward” ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 31st October 2022 || News analysis |
Altria will look to alternative products to help it offset losses in conventional cigarette sales that have caused it to revise its 2022 full-year forecast downward ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 20th October 2022 || News analysis |
A recent study has revealed that the warning letters issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) target small online retailers rather than large e-cigarette brands or products most used by young people ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 11th October 2022 || News analysis |
Youth vaping remains high in the US, with 9.4% middle- and high-school students – around 2.5m teenagers – reporting current e-cigarette use, though changes in survey methods make it difficult to identify a clear trend ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 10th October 2022 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced additional steps against disposable vaping products that have quickly become the new favourite among youth vapers, giving Puff Bar and Hyde two weeks to respond ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 30th September 2022 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has launched an online resource centre providing science-based, standards-mapped materials that teachers can use to help their students understand the dangers of vaping and nicotine addiction...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 27th September 2022 || News analysis |
The Swiss Federal Council has opened the consultation process with Switzerland’s cantons on a bill to tighten restrictions on the advertising of tobacco and vaping products ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 27th September 2022 || News analysis |
RLX Technology has reported a drop in its net revenue for the second quarter of 2022 while it transitions to comply with new regulatory requirements in China ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 15th September 2022 || News analysis |
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has developed a fast-track informal standard, PAS 8855, to address quality, performance and safety issues related to vaping products ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 14th September 2022 || News analysis |
US politicians and public health associations have broadly welcomed Juul Labs’ $438.5m settlement, which ended a two-year investigation by 34 US states into the e-cigarette maker’s marketing and sales practices ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 13th September 2022 || News analysis |
US scientists need to communicate more effectively with politicians and the public to ensure the country overcomes a prohibitionist mindset on tobacco harm reduction, according to some public health experts ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 12th September 2022 || News analysis |
Italian citizens have been called to vote in general elections on 25th September to elect a new Parliament following the resignation of prime minister Mario Draghi on 21st July ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 8th September 2022 || News analysis |
New and emerging nicotine and tobacco products such as e-cigarettes are becoming increasingly available in the Americas and now pose a threat to the progress of tobacco control, a new report says ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 1st September 2022 || News analysis |
Cristine Delnevo, the new chair of the US FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC), has been hailed as an “objective, thoughtful scientist” with an understanding of research into harm reduction ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 31st August 2022 || News analysis |
Vaping industry representatives have accused the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of “creating a fake panic” with a warning over illegal flavoured nicotine gummies ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 5th August 2022 || News analysis |
In contrast to the UK government’s pro-vaping policy, the devolved administration in Wales is discouraging e-cigarettes over concerns about youth uptake ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 3rd August 2022 || News analysis |
Turning Point Brands has blamed the hostile regulatory environment for vapour products in the US for the lowering of its sales and revenue expectations for 2022 ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 28th July 2022 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) enjoyed a 45% rise in revenue from its new products category in the first half of the year, with strong momentum shown by its Vuse e-cigarette range ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 22nd July 2022 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) will continue to support the sales and promotion of its Iqos Veev vapour product as part of its commitment to expanding its smoke-free product portfolio ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 18th July 2022 || News analysis |
More than 24,000 responses were received to a European Commission call for evidence on plans for the legal framework that will shape the future revised Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and Tobacco Advertising Directive ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 12th July 2022 || News analysis |
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has developed a fast-track informal standard to address quality, performance and safety issues of CBD vape products, which are not covered by the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 11th July 2022 || News analysis |
The number of US adults who think e-cigarettes are more harmful than traditional tobacco products has effectively doubled year on year from 2018 to 2020, according to new research – and that has affected smoking rates ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 6th July 2022 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has temporarily suspended the marketing denial order (MDO) it served on Juul Labs last month demanding the company remove its e-cigarettes from the US market ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 6th July 2022 || News analysis |
British low-cost vaping brand 88Vape enjoyed 10% growth in revenue, buoyed by a doubling of income from its website, to reach about a third of the total revenue earned by parent company Supreme ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 1st July 2022 || News analysis |
No posts from e-cigarette companies concerning vaping – whether advertorial or informational – should appear on Instagram, and companies are responsible for policing relevant social media content posted by affiliated influencers, even if they did not know about...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 23rd June 2022 || News analysis |
Juul Labs says it will contest a marketing denial order (MDO) issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), effectively ordering all its products off the US market ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 16th June 2022 || News analysis |
The UK company behind low-cost e-liquid brand 88Vape is acquiring the e-liquid manufacturer and e-cigarette supplier Liberty Flights for a price that could rise to £14.75m ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 15th June 2022 || News analysis |
Recognition of the role vaping can play in the future of public health in England has been welcomed, though there is some criticism of proposals to continually raise the legal age for the purchase of smoking products ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 13th June 2022 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has passed its first premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) for a disposable e-cigarette, authorising two tobacco flavours of Njoy Daily ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 9th June 2022 || News analysis |
The UK government must take further action to promote vaping products and accelerate the path to prescribed e-cigarettes if it wants to achieve its 2030 smoke-free ambition for England, according to an independent tobacco review...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 24th May 2022 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has appointed epidemiologist Brian King as director of the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) – an appointment that has not gone down well with the US vaping industry ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 27th April 2022 || News analysis |
A modern pod system using nicotine salts from a non–Big Tobacco company has been authorised by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through the premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) pathway ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 25th April 2022 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) is continuing to support sales and promotion of its Iqos Veev vaping product, with further market roll-outs planned this year ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 19th April 2022 || News analysis |
Specialist vape stores are no longer the most popular channel for the purchase of vaping products in the UK, according to figures from Smoking in England, which gathers together data for policymakers and others ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 14th April 2022 || News analysis |
The UK supplier behind low-cost e-liquid brand 88Vape expects to post a decent rise in revenue from its vaping division for the year ended 31st March ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 13th April 2022 || Blogs |
What will Michele Mital’s reign as acting director of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) mean in terms of policy? ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 7th April 2022 || News analysis |
A study warning that vaping may have countered the decline in US youth nicotine usage has been strongly criticised by two professors of health psychology for flawed methods and wrong focus ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 30th March 2022 || News analysis |
The recent decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Logic’s products has raised some concerns among experts on how the federal agency will address the pending premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 29th March 2022 || News analysis |
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published its post-implementation review of the country’s tobacco legislation, concluding that the existing rules work and should be retained ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 28th March 2022 || News analysis |
A recent report by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on e-cig sales and advertising has been roundly criticised for showing an outdated picture of the vaping market in the US ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 25th March 2022 || News analysis |
The FDA has authorised the marketing of several tobacco-flavoured e-cigarette products from Logic Technology Development, under the brands Logic Power and Logic Pro, but the agency also issued marketing denial orders for other products from the same company, owned by...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 25th March 2022 || News analysis |
Michele Mital, deputy director of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) since 2018, looks the most likely candidate to take the CTP reins from retiring director Mitch Zeller ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 22nd March 2022 || News analysis |
Experts fear the decision to treat synthetic nicotine the same as tobacco products could devastate parts of the US vaping industry that have come to rely on it, with some businesses forced to close and others praying for...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 18th March 2022 || News analysis |
Industry insiders have suggested the UK government should raise the nicotine limit for e-cigarettes, promote vaping, and legalise snus as part of the country’s post-Brexit regulatory reforms ...