Barnaby Page, Author at ECigIntelligence

Monthly regulatory podcast: October

Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd October 2024 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |

The ECigIntelligence monthly regulatory podcast provides insight and analysis on the major regulatory developments of the previous month affecting the sector ...

New UK government could tighten rules on youth vaping but support adult use

Written by Barnaby Page || 9th July 2024 || News analysis |

As the new UK prime minister settles in, attempts are already being made to push novel nicotine regulation to the top of his agenda, and similar attempts are being made by lobbyists in every sector ...

Courts in the US, the FDA, and the end of ‘Chevron deference’: a dissenting view

Written by Barnaby Page || 4th July 2024 || Blogs |

There has been jubilation in the US e-cigarette industry over the demise of the legal doctrine of “Chevron deference”, but many outside the sector itself have expressed reservations, and they are right to do so ...

Ten lessons learned over ten years of covering the novel nicotine industry

Written by Barnaby Page || 4th July 2024 || Blogs |

In this part of a series of articles celebrating the tenth anniversary of Tamarind Intelligence, our editorial director shares ten things he’s learned about the sector in the last decade ...

Takeaways from this year’s thought-provoking Global Forum on Nicotine

Written by Barnaby Page || 21st June 2024 || Blogs |

The Global Forum on Nicotine was in Warsaw again last week, and once again proved to be one of the most thought-provoking events on the tobacco harm reduction calendar ...

Belgium gets go-ahead to be first EU member state with disposables ban

Written by Barnaby Page || 18th March 2024 || News analysis |

Belgium is to become the first EU member state to ban disposable e-cigarettes, following the European Commission’s approval today, 18th March, of its proposed legislation ...

An e-cigarette by any other name, and other issues with industry terminology

Written by Barnaby Page || 18th January 2024 || Blogs |

Perception is often at least as important as reality in forming policy-makers’ and the public’s opinion where novel nicotine products are concerned, but there’s a persistent problem with terminology ...

UK conferences have differing takes on the biggest challenges the industry faces

Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd November 2023 || Blogs |

What the biggest challenge is facing the British e-cigarette and novel nicotine sectors depends on who you ask. Recent industry conferences in London addressed the question of youth vaping, but in very different ways ...

What could the future hold for a smoke-free UK with tighter vaping restrictions?

Written by Barnaby Page || 19th October 2023 || Blogs |

With the British government’s new raft of proposals on regulating tobacco products, it’s possible to make some tentative predictions just from the questions being asked in a current consultation ...

UK’s plan for smoke-free generation aims to ban tobacco and restrict e-cigs

Written by Barnaby Page || 5th October 2023 || News analysis |

The UK government is considering a generational ban for most tobacco products – but not e-cigarettes – as well as restrictions on disposable vapes and flavours, according to proposals issued this week ...

Keeping track of the disposables scene: how will it weather the regulatory storm?

Written by Barnaby Page || 5th October 2023 || Blogs |

We estimate that disposables now account for nearly 40% of the global vape market. But the growth rate that led disposables to their current success also seems to be leading them into a perfect storm ...

Smoking cessation research review finds nicotine e-cigs one of most effective aids

Written by Barnaby Page || 18th September 2023 || News analysis |

Nicotine-containing e-cigs are among the most effective aids in smoking cessation, according to a new analysis of existing research. Varenicline, cytisine or the simultaneous use of more than one kind of NRT seem equally effective ...

The pollution problem – the newest culprits, who’s to blame and is it solvable?

Written by Barnaby Page || 18th August 2023 || Blogs |

The vast volumes of waste and litter attributable to vaping have become a major issue in recent months, and even if some of the media coverage seems biased, the underlying problem is real enough ...

Brighter later? Were gloomy forecasts for global e-cig regulation too negative?

Written by Barnaby Page || 21st July 2023 || Blogs |

There are several reasons to be cautiously negative about the direction regulation of novel nicotine products will follow, globally – but does that make up a fair picture? ...

Is it time to remove the ‘cigarette’ from ‘e-cigarette’? (The ‘e-’ is a bit old hat too)

Written by Barnaby Page || 13th July 2023 || Blogs |

What’s in a name? Where the novel nicotine products sector is concerned, what’s more significant may be what’s not in the names of its categories – specifically, the word “nicotine” ...

The land where it’s courting trouble even to debate the pros and cons of vaping

Written by Barnaby Page || 25th May 2023 || Blogs |

India is far from unique in the high level of misperception about nicotine among its doctors and its politicians. But sometimes the famously fussy bureaucracy can become positively farcical ...

Would it be healthier for regulators to work with the industry, not against it?

Written by Barnaby Page || 15th May 2023 || Blogs |

The World Health Organization (WHO) insists on keeping the tobacco industry and tobacco regulators as far apart as possible, for sound historical reasons. But is it time this policy was reconsidered? ...

Good COP, bad COP? What to look out for in Panama – and what not to expect

Written by Barnaby Page || 25th April 2023 || Blogs |

Tobacco control’s catchiest acronym is back later this year, with the next WHO FCTC COP (World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties) due to be held in Panama in November ...

Study suggests heated tobacco could be a real rival for vaping in smoking cessation

Written by Barnaby Page || 13th April 2023 || Blogs |

Heated tobacco has never attracted the same level of scientific attention as vaping – but the surprising results of a new study may change that ...

US FDA rewrites the rule book at length – but does it really change anything?

Written by Barnaby Page || 16th March 2023 || Blogs |

What can the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s proposed new rule on manufacturing practices tell us about the agency’s vision for future regulation of tobacco and e-cigarette products? ...

Legislative differences between US states reveal a lot about attitudes and approach

Written by Barnaby Page || 16th February 2023 || Blogs |

So much attention is given to the edicts of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it’s easy to forget individual states – not to mention cities – can also have a big impact on the regulation...

How the FDA’s assault on flavours, even menthol, could give real tobacco an edge

Written by Barnaby Page || 2nd February 2023 || Blogs |

Flavours continue to be the main target of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US when it comes to novel nicotine products, it seems – which could give heated tobacco an advantage over e-cigs ...

Health warning: ‘scientific research’ so bad it should never have been published

Written by Barnaby Page || 11th January 2023 || Blogs |

There remains a worryingly large amount of research on vaping which makes casual, almost always negative, assumptions...and the occasional item which is so faulty it should never have been published at all ...

What is the true significance of New Zealand’s generational tobacco ban?

Written by Barnaby Page || 22nd December 2022 || Blogs |

New Zealand’s ban on cigarette sales to people born after 1st January 2009 may look like a dry run for complete prohibition. But there’s a crucial difference, really ...

Independent US review lists catalogue of failings at Center for Tobacco Products

Written by Barnaby Page || 20th December 2022 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (FDA CTP) is “reactive and overwhelmed”, staff are “fatigued”, the industry and public health advocates are “frustrated”, and litigation has “upended” the CTP’s plans ...

E-cigs and ethics – why the pros and the antis need to find some common ground

Written by Barnaby Page || 13th December 2022 || Blogs |

Some countries, and millions of users are making headway in replacing combustible tobacco with safer alternatives…but what’s holding back the others? Are the products themselves the problem, or is it a matter of perception? ...

Risk reduction in Japan – a seldom told good news for alternatives to smoking

Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd November 2022 || Blogs |

Heated tobacco has played a major role in eliminating smoking in Japan – not just nibbling away at the edges of smoking prevalence but severely reducing the presence of the combustible cigarette ...

Vaping companies have little chance to impress in Tobacco Transformation

Written by Barnaby Page || 29th September 2022 || News analysis |

Tobacco companies still have some work to do to meet commitments in offering reduced risk alternatives – and when they do, it's often focused elsewhere than the vaping category ...

Is there a further shift in MEPs’ attitudes towards the risk-reduction argument?

Written by Barnaby Page || 22nd September 2022 || Blogs |

Is there any connection between people’s knowledge of reduced-risk products and their attitudes toward them? Our third survey of European Parliament members' views will show how any such connection may have altered ...

Sweet sighs in Sweden as election brings a probable switch in policy on vaping

Written by Barnaby Page || 15th September 2022 || Blogs |

After the victory of right-wing parties in Sweden’s very close election, the country’s vaping sector – and its customers – may well be breathing a sigh of relief; perhaps a peppermint- or caramel- or blueberry-scented sigh ...

Court rulings focus on process, leaving the key question on vaping unaddressed

Written by Barnaby Page || 8th September 2022 || Blogs |

Another day, another judgement in the saga of the US vapour industry’s cases against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its handling of the premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) process ...

20,000 authors of published research on vaping – but who and where are they?

Written by Barnaby Page || 10th August 2022 || Blogs |

Research into e-cigarettes is dominated by American scientists and a few names emerge as clear leaders in the field, despite the involvement of thousands of scholars over the last decade ...

We know the UK is vape-friendly – but can Khan influence the rest of the world?

Written by Barnaby Page || 7th July 2022 || Blogs |

Could the UK's Khan review of tobacco policy have lessons for the rest of the world in its enthusiastic endorsement of vaping, even for countries where there is far more hostility toward novel tobacco products? ...

The smouldering nicotine question that is suddenly back on the political agenda

Written by Barnaby Page || 16th June 2022 || Blogs |

Questions are sure to arise as to how any mandatory reduction in nicotine in combustibles might affect e-cigarettes too, either in the form of increased (or reduced) competition or possible parallel regulation ...

Harm-reduction strategies: how much action lies behind the talk?

Written by Barnaby Page || 1st June 2022 || Blogs |

Most tobacco companies are keen to be seen supporting the concept of harm reduction, especially through reduced-risk products like e-cigarettes, heat-not-burn and pouches. But how far is their support for the idea actually having an effect on their...

Are worries over novel products distracting from the real problem?

Written by Barnaby Page || 19th May 2022 || Blogs |

Speaking at the launch of the seventh edition of the Atlas, US public health scholar Jeffrey Drope suggested that new nicotine technologies are “a huge distraction” which have “confused governments, the public health community and the public” ...

Is PMI shifting focus from vaping to other smoke-free alternatives?

Written by Barnaby Page || 12th May 2022 || Blogs |

The $16bn takeover of Swedish Match by Philip Morris International (PMI) suggests that PMI may be moving further away from vaping as part of its smoke-free portfolio and goals ...

Will FDA meet triumph or disaster over menthol – and how will it affect e-cigs?

Written by Barnaby Page || 9th May 2022 || Blogs |

What are the implications of the FDA’s menthol plan for novel nicotine products such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco? ...

Is the current peer-review system really giving us the best possible e-cig science?

Written by Barnaby Page || 20th April 2022 || Blogs |

Is the present system of peer-reviewed journal publication of scientific papers the best way to get the best science – particularly in the vaping world? There are those who think it may not be ...

What will changes at the US CTP and CDC mean for the e-cigarette industry?

Written by Barnaby Page || 8th April 2022 || Blogs |

Michele Mital’s appointment as acting head of the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) is not bad news for the industry, even if it’s not quite good news. And there may be bigger change at the Centers for Disease...

A hard but vital sell – convincing poorer countries of the value of harm reduction

Written by Barnaby Page || 31st March 2022 || Blogs |

A new report confronts the issues involved in broadening the appeal of tobacco harm reduction products in low- and middle-income countries, where smoking cessation arguably matters even more than it does elsewhere ...

Flavour restrictions ‘have little impact’, while ‘pods may beat mods’ for cessation

Written by Barnaby Page || 24th March 2022 || Blogs |

The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) has published a number of papers which will be of particular interest to the e-cigarette sector. Here are some of the highlights ...

It’s hard to unpick, but there’s good news lurking in the detail of CDC vaping report

Written by Barnaby Page || 17th March 2022 || Blogs |

The headline conclusions of the CDC are not surprising: tobacco products remain a menace to America’s kids, e-cigarettes particularly, flavoured ones most of all. But that is not the whole story ...

US youth vaping continues to drop, but it still beats smoking, CDC survey reports

Written by Barnaby Page || 17th March 2022 || News analysis |

E-cigarettes remain by far the most popular means of nicotine consumption among US high school and middle school students, ahead of combustible cigarettes ...

Could very-low-nicotine cigarettes become new competition for vapour?

Written by Barnaby Page || 10th March 2022 || Blogs |

The news reported on our sister site TobaccoIntelligence that 22nd Century Group is looking to launch its very-low-nicotine cigarettes (VLNCs) in Chicago and South Korea seems on the surface to have little to do with vaping ...

Survey of MEPs’ views provides possible clues to the likely direction of TPD3

Written by Barnaby Page || 2nd December 2021 || Blogs |

Sooner or later the EU will have a new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), and one of the big questions will be how it treats new product categories which barely existed at the time of TPD2 ...

FDA technical review throws light on agency’s priorities for e-cigarettes

Written by Barnaby Page || 20th October 2021 || News analysis |

While some of the biggest players in the US vapour market wait for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to decide whether their products can remain on sale, the agency has provided some insight into its processes and...

First PMTA success for Reynolds’s Vuse products – but tobacco flavours only

Written by Barnaby Page || 13th October 2021 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its first marketing authorisations for e-cigarette products, following the rejection of millions of others. The authorisations cover RJ Reynolds’s Vuse Solo device and two 4.8% nicotine tobacco-flavoured pods ...

A hammer to crack a nut: what the PMTA process reveals about US FDA approach

Written by Barnaby Page || 7th October 2021 || Blogs , News analysis |

Some light is now dawning on some truths long since suspected about the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s evaluation of e-cigarettes ...

Into the great unknown as US FDA’s deadline to decide on PMTAs arrives

Written by Barnaby Page || 9th September 2021 || Blogs , News analysis |

As the US Food and Drug Administration's deadline to pass or reject e-cigarette premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) arrives, where does it leave the market and the as-yet undetermined applications? ...

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