Written by Barnaby Page || 28th July 2017 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration has taken a major step toward easing the demands of the deeming regulations, giving e-cig manufacturers nearly an extra four years to submit their...
Written by Barnaby Page || 27th July 2017 || News analysis |
E-cigs have made a substantial contribution to improving quit rates in the US, according to a new study which provides fresh ammunition to their supporters in the public-health...
Written by Barnaby Page || 22nd June 2017 || News analysis |
A US researcher is calling for much closer inspection of how dual users combine vaping with smoking in order to determine the true impact of e-cigarettes on cessation...
The FDA failed to assess the sources of comments properly when it decided not to regulate e-cigarette flavours in its final deeming rule, the authors of a new study...
Written by Barnaby Page || 13th January 2017 || News analysis |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has spelled out the limited circumstances where vape stores can modify e-cigarette products without seeking its...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th December 2016 || News analysis |
Swedish Match has at last obtained some answers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its attempt to have snus products classified as modified risk – and they mix outright rejections with some very mild...
Written by Barnaby Page || 6th December 2016 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) this week submitted its iQOS technology for approval as a reduced-risk product by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a strategy which if successful would provide a tremendous boost to the credibility of...
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th November 2016 || News analysis |
Countries that ban vapour products could be breaking world trade agreements by unfairly privileging combustibles at the expense of e-cigarettes, two lawyers have...
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th November 2016 || News analysis |
The willingness of smokers to adopt e-cigarettes may depend partly on their moral perceptions of addiction, weakness and personal strength, a new British study...
Written by Barnaby Page || 22nd November 2016 || News analysis |
Canada’s government today made its long-awaited move to end regulatory confusion with a new bill which puts vapour products in a category of their own, distinct from conventional...
Written by Barnaby Page || 18th November 2016 || News analysis |
While many in the U.S. e-cigarette world hope that the Cole-Bishop proposal to change the FDA’s grandfathering date could be the industry’s salvation, at least one commentator believes it should be abandoned in the light of Donald Trump’s...
Written by Barnaby Page || 15th November 2016 || News analysis |
The World Health Organization (WHO) showed no signs of softening in its attitude toward reduced-risk products as its biannual tobacco control conference came to a close in...
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st October 2016 || News analysis |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that some unapproved e-cigarettes can be used in scientific research as long as their makers meet the deadlines for...
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st October 2016 || News analysis |
Barely a year after the Reynolds American takeover of Lorillard, the U.S. tobacco industry may face another upheaval as British American Tobacco (BAT) bids to buy Reynolds...
Written by Barnaby Page || 17th October 2016 || News analysis |
Citizens of California will on 8th November decide the fate of Proposition 56, which introduces a specific tax on nicotine-containing vape products as part of a broader increase in tobacco...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th October 2016 || News analysis |
State legislatures in the U.S. continue to have numerous e-cigarette-related bills placed before them. Totting up the topics of those proposed laws reveals that some issues remain major concerns at state level, while others seemingly don’t trouble...
Written by Barnaby Page || 7th October 2016 || News analysis |
U.S. businesses selling e-cigarettes and other vaping products online can expect to be hard hit by new rules governing the processing of credit card...
Written by Barnaby Page || 6th October 2016 || News analysis |
The e-cigarette market in the Netherlands faces a serious challenge adapting to the requirements of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), as small specialist retailers try to cope with advertising restrictions, e-liquid regulations and age...
Written by Barnaby Page || 28th September 2016 || News analysis |
Canada looks likely to regulate the sale of e-cigarettes as consumer products this autumn, ending years of uncertainty in which their legality has been...
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st September 2016 || News analysis |
Vape stores in the U.S. are observing new age restrictions on e-cigarette purchase more rigorously than mainstream retailers or online e-cig stores, the outcome of a federal crackdown...
Written by Barnaby Page || 2nd September 2016 || News analysis |
Nearly all smokers would be better off moving to lower-risk alternatives than giving up nicotine completely; taxing e-cigs has no rational justification; society should be prepared for more non-smokers to take up vaping; and tobacco control is often...
Written by Barnaby Page || 26th August 2016 || News analysis |
New e-cigarette products could be launched on the French market sooner than expected, as the regulator temporarily trims the standard six-month notification period to three...
Written by Barnaby Page || 22nd August 2016 || News analysis |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked a judge to throw out the consolidated case against its deeming regulations, arguing that the new rules for e-cigarettes were arrived at reasonably and that requiring them is within...
The EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) demands that manufacturers supply information on the ingredients and components of e-cig products, as well as testing ingredients and carrying out toxicological assessments – but it is vague on the detail of...
Written by Barnaby Page || 15th August 2016 || News analysis |
Nicoventures, the e-cig arm of British American Tobacco (BAT), is putting together a proprietary “toolbox” of pre-tested flavour ingredients for e-liquid to help it deal with the world’s rapidly changing regulatory...
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th July 2016 || News analysis |
Countless bottles of e-liquid stocked by U.S. vape stores will unexpectedly become illegal tomorrow, following a U.S. federal agency’s last-minute decision to reinterpret the rules on...
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st July 2016 || News analysis |
Pennsylvania has become the latest and largest American state to tax e-cigarettes, unusually also deciding to impose its levy on retailers’ existing...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th July 2016 || News analysis |
A scientific paper published today suggests that e-cigarettes could cut smoking-related deaths in the U.S. by more than 20%, based on a statistical model of how people smoke and...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th July 2016 || News analysis |
New guidance on public-vaping policies from Public Health England (PHE) provides a detailed rationale for allowing e-cigarette use even where smoking is...
Written by Barnaby Page || 30th June 2016 || News analysis |
New e-cigarette taxes are due to be introduced in Hungary and Slovenia, bringing to eight the number of European countries which impose special levies on the...
Written by Barnaby Page || 30th June 2016 || News analysis |
At June’s Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, ECigIntelligence editorial director Barnaby Page took a look at some of the inconsistencies that are emerging in European regulation of e-cigarettes despite the standardisation imposed by the EU Tobacco Products Directive...
Our analysis of the top five vape store chains in the U.S. reveals distinct patterns in geographical distribution, and offers some insight into how these chains are evolving against the background of a maturing...
In this report we look at Canada, a market-oriented, high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class with high living standards. There are no federal laws related to e-cigarettes – despite calls to clarify a confused situation – so...
Written by Barnaby Page || 24th June 2016 || News analysis |
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union following yesterday’s knife-edge referendum will have little immediate impact on either vapers or the...
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd June 2016 || News analysis |
The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has been accused of ignoring its own founding document in taking a stance against e-cigarettes, as well as neglecting the governance principles of its ultimate parent the...