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...
Written by Barnaby Page || 22nd June 2016 || News analysis |
As Britain’s debate on whether to leave the European Union reaches fever pitch in anticipation of Thursday’s referendum, vapers and e-cigarette advocates are as divided as the split...
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st June 2016 || News analysis |
The Indian state of Karnataka has become the third to ban e-cigarettes. It follows Maharahstra and Punjab in what appears likely to become a subcontinental trend, as India’s tobacco control tightens and grave concerns about the health risks...
Written by Barnaby Page || 16th June 2016 || News analysis |
The EU’s Common Entry Gate for e-cigarette product notifications is now fully up and running – and manufacturers who used the interim version launched in May have only until 24th June to transfer those submissions onto the new...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th June 2016 || News analysis |
A senior scientist in the tobacco sector will this week urge the editors of scientific journals not to exclude research on e-cigarettes that is produced or funded by the...
As the tobacco industry braces itself for a global epidemic of plain-packaging legislation, there have been calls for the controversial measure to be applied to e-cigarettes...
Tobacco control leaders from around the globe will be presented with the latest findings of the World Health Organization (WHO) on e-cigarettes and public health at a meeting in India this...
Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the U.S. are always on the hunt for a new target to sue. And, having had some success suing diacetyl manufacturers over workers’ exposure to the chemical in microwave popcorn plants, attorneys are now beginning...
E-liquid maker Lost Art Liquids has filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), claiming that the deeming regulations violate two parts of the U.S. Constitution and two important...
The EU may be resorting to Excel spreadsheets and email after failing to get its online gateway for e-cigarette manufacturers up and running by today’s...
The EU’s new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and national legislation are broadly sufficient to protect the public from nicotine poisoning, an official European study has concluded. But it does recommend further consumer education on the risks of ingestion,...
Europe’s online e-cigarette vendors are so far overwhelmingly ignoring new Internet sales bans where they exist, and taking full advantage of delays in legislation where they...
The Republic of Ireland has succeeded in transposing the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) at the eleventh hour, with recently-appointed health minister Simon Harris signing the necessary regulations to come into force...
Although the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and the U.S. deeming regulations are coming into effect almost simultaneously this summer, their approaches could hardly be more...
Eleven of the European Union’s 28 member states will ban online e-cigarette sales as part of their implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). We explore the likely...
Some of America’s most trusted public-health institutions have been accused of failing to tell consumes about the relative risk of smokeless nicotine products compared with cigarettes, a policy that is likely to cost...
U.S. media reactions to the new deeming rule ran the gamut from praise for an FDA which had produced “sensible regulations”, to damning criticism for an agency which will supposedly do more to promote smoking than to stop...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes most e-cigarette manufacturers will need to conduct fresh scientific research in order to obtain authorisation for their products under the newly-published deeming regulations – but not necessarily full-blown clinical...
Compliance with the new U.S. deeming regulations could be eased by the sharing of information among manufacturers and other stakeholders, says the Food and Drug Administration...
The era of vape stores producing their own e-liquids is likely to come to an end after the introduction of the deeming regulations in the U.S., the agency responsible for them predicts. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...