Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 14th February 2022 || News analysis |
Vuse and vapour were the primary driver of a 42.4% year-on-year increase in British American Tobacco (BAT)’s new category portfolio revenue, according to the company’s latest results ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 8th February 2022 || News analysis |
The European Parliament’s first debate on the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA)’s report into how to strengthen Europe’s fight against cancer will take place on 15th February ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 7th February 2022 || News analysis |
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of local authorities in England offering e-cigarettes to smokers in a bid to help them quit smoking, according to a new survey ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 3rd February 2022 || News analysis |
Israel’s parliamentary finance committee has finally and retroactively approved the duty rates on vaping products in its first ever e-cigarette tax, that was initially passed in November ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 1st February 2022 || News analysis |
The majority of people in Taiwan support proposals that will likely strengthen bans on vaping but continue to allow heated tobacco products in the country ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 27th January 2022 || News analysis |
We look back at predictions ECigIntelligence published at the start of 2021. Real events and developments confirmed ECigIntelligence’s analysis in many cases, though Covid delayed things ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 12th January 2022 || News analysis |
Vaping products have continued to take a share of the worldwide retail market away from smokable tobacco over the past three years, with sales of combustible cigarettes declining by 5% – but the rate of growth has slowed...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 10th January 2022 || News analysis |
Could 2021 be remembered as the year we first started to see some light at the end of the tunnel? Only time will tell for sure, but there were clues ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 7th January 2022 || News analysis |
A study has warned about “significant exposure” of Generation Z teens to videos glamorising vaping on social media platform TikTok and called for “effective age restrictions” to avoid it ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 5th January 2022 || News analysis |
A new study has concluded that although flavours are an “important motivator” for e-cigarette uptake among young people, there is no evidence to associate them with a move to smoking tobacco ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 17th December 2021 || News analysis |
The Lega party, part of the ruling coalition in Italy, has tabled an amendment to the Budget Bill 2022 aiming to increase the e-liquid excise duty each year until 2023 but with lower rates than those established by...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 10th December 2021 || News analysis |
The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer gave the green light on 9th December to a cancer report that urges the Commission to assess a ban on selected flavours in upcoming regulations ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 7th December 2021 || News analysis |
RLX Technology saw a drop of 34% in its net revenue for the third quarter of the year but has expressed optimism that this will be a temporary reversal ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 3rd December 2021 || News analysis |
The decline in the use of traditional tobacco products across Europe is expected to accelerate in the next four years, while vape sales continue to grow in the five largest EU markets – France, Germany, Italy, Poland and...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 24th November 2021 || Blogs |
Conflict between public health concerns and political-economic interests seems to be the main reason behind an internal dispute between the Philippine delegation to COP9 and officials at the country’s Department of Health ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 18th November 2021 || News analysis |
MPs have called on the UK government to take the forthcoming Tobacco Control Plan as an opportunity to tackle misinformation around tobacco alternatives and encourage switching to less harmful products ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 10th November 2021 || Blogs |
The misleading advertising on social media of tobacco alternatives such as e-cigarettes has become a critical concern of public health groups and some governments around the world ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 9th November 2021 || News analysis |
Some manufacturers may struggle to overcome certain regulatory hurdles to licensing e-cigarettes in the UK as medical products – leaving the field to tobacco companies – experts warn ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 1st October 2021 || News analysis |
US senators have urged the FDA to implement a timeline to decide on the pending PMTAs and to reveal how it will ensure that there are no non-compliant products on the market ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 27th September 2021 || News analysis |
Representatives of the vaping industry have urged a broader collaboration with scientists and agreed that integrating technological innovations is key to encouraging transition to tobacco alternatives ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 23rd September 2021 || News analysis |
The US FDA’s rejection of premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) has sown confusion among vape retailers, who are urging the agency to make public which vaping products have been approved for sale ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 21st September 2021 || News analysis |
The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to postpone a discussion on novel tobacco products to a face-to-face event in 2023 – a decision experts are linking to a lack of consensus ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 16th September 2021 || News analysis |
A UK smoking cessation body says a combination of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and vaping products can be more effective than either on their own in helping smokers quit – though e-cigarettes alone come very close ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 14th September 2021 || News analysis |
Three Italian members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are hoping to introduce the concept of harm reduction into a strategy report by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 10th September 2021 || News analysis |
New regulations that come into force in New Zealand tomorrow will oblige retailers, including vape stores, to display signs at each point-of-sale warning customers that e-cigarette products are not for sale to minors ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 24th August 2021 || News analysis |
A group of 31 US attorneys general has joined together in urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to deny premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) for vaping products ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 23rd August 2021 || News analysis |
The Italian Department of Prison Administration (DAP) has been urged to implement a 2016 circular that authorised the use of e-cigarettes by inmates ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 17th August 2021 || News analysis |
The UK’s MHRA has updated its industry guidance and clarified that vaping products can be legally placed on the market only when a compliant notification is published online ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 10th August 2021 || News analysis |
A small manufacturer from Texas must remove millions of vaping products from the US market after the FDA issued a Refuse to File (RTF) letter rejecting most of its PMTAs ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 6th August 2021 || News analysis |
Five US companies are top of the list with the most PMTAs submitted, and represent five out of the 6m total applications by the September 2020 deadline ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 28th July 2021 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT)’s revenue from its new category portfolio rose by 40.4% year-on-year to £883m in the first half of 2021, driven by the post-pandemic recovery of its vapour segment ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 26th July 2021 || News analysis |
A proposed restructuring of Nerudia, a UK e-liquid manufacturer owned by Imperial Brands, could lead to the loss of 77 jobs across its research and development and production departments in Liverpool ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo || 19th July 2021 || News analysis |
The Italian Senate is close to considering temporary tax relief for e-cigarettes in the country – a move financial experts do not expect to cause any significant drop in the overall volume of tax collected ...