New Zealand Bill to ban disposable vapes passes first reading ...
Ireland Ministers OK proposal for disposables ban and more e-cig regulations ...
Switzerland Councillor calls for cantonal ban on sale of disposables ...
New Zealand Government introduces smoke-free and regulated products bill ...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belarus - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Moldova - Russia - Tajikistan - Uzbekistan Harm-prevention action plan created for CIS member states ...
Netherlands Citizens’ initiative for generational sales ban finds political support ...
Czech Republic Tens of thousands sign petition against flavoured vape ban ...
Slovakia Amendment to excise tax act adopted, e-liquid tax to apply from February ...
France Disposable vapes recalled for labelling violations ...
Ireland Health minister to present disposables ban to cabinet today ...
Netherlands Registration requirement for tobacco product retailers being considered ...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th April 2016 || News analysis |
Differing views of nicotine in Britain and the U.S. may underlie a sharp contrast in official attitudes toward e-cigarettes, according to a group of public-health...
Written by Barnaby Page || 30th March 2016 || News analysis |
While most of the European e-cigarette industry’s attention is focused on the imminent regulatory upheaval brought about by the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), another set of compliance requirements are also growing in number – those dictated by...
Written by Barnaby Page || 30th March 2016 || News analysis |
With only weeks to go before the measures of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) start to come into legal effect, ECigIntelligence’s European regulatory analysts have identified the major tasks facing e-cigarette...
Written by Barnaby Page || 15th March 2016 || News analysis |
Australia’s already stringent rules against e-cigarettes look set to get even tighter in some parts of the country, although there are tentative signs that the national regulatory framework could come under...
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th March 2016 || News analysis |
E-cigarettes will likely soon become legally equal to combustible products in California, following the state legislature’s approval of a raft of tobacco measures which also raise the smoking – and vaping – age to...
Written by Barnaby Page || 4th March 2016 || News analysis |
The European Union (EU) is still some way from introducing a pan-European tax regime for e-cigarettes, despite recent media reports suggesting it is imminent. The contemplation of e-cigarette tax rules at an EU level arises from a typically...
Data for the online e-cig sector in the United States suggests a robust industry, and contrasts strongly with dwindling growth reported in traditional retail channels. Our in-depth report identifies the top vendors and analyses changes in leadership over...
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th February 2016 || News analysis |
Robert Califf has been confirmed as the next head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency which will spearhead federal regulation of e-cigarettes when it releases its long-awaited deeming...
Written by Barnaby Page || 24th February 2016 || News analysis |
Robert Califf has been confirmed as the next head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency which will spearhead federal regulation of e-cigarettes when it releases its long-awaited deeming...
ECigIntelligence’s evaluation of the interconnected value chains in the U.S. e-cigarette and vapour markets begins with the overly saturated, intensely competitive, and highly lucrative e-liquid segment. This report takes an overview of 2015 Vape Shop Index findings on...
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th February 2016 || News analysis |
E-liquid with nicotine is illegal in Germany, the supreme court has ruled, because it also contains other substances that the law does not allow to be mixed with tobacco...
Contents1 Introduction2 Regulatory landscape3 Current national regulatory framework4 Upcoming regulatory changes5 Age restrictions6 Product restrictions7 Labelling and packaging: current8 Labelling and packaging: near future9 Sale restrictions10 Retail licensing11 Public usage12 Exceptions to the public vaping ban13 14 Advertising...
Written by Barnaby Page || 22nd January 2016 || News analysis |
Denmark’s government has had second thoughts about imposing a strict, tobacco-style regime on vaping in public places. A new draft of wide-ranging legislation which will make e-cigarettes available as consumer products, transpose the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive...
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st January 2016 || News analysis |
The furore over Sara Kalkhoran and Stanton Glantz’s meta-analysis of e-cigarettes and smoking cessation illustrates some pitfalls in conducting, and interpreting, science. ECigIntelligence takes an in-depth look at the principles and problems behind the...
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st January 2016 || News analysis |
One in eight French vape stores went out of business last year, continuing 2014’s trend of closures, but some areas of the country have been much harder hit than...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th January 2016 || News analysis |
Members of sexual minorities are far more likely than others to use e-cigarettes, according to a new U.S. study which also suggests that vaping is most popular among younger, less-educated, and lower-income...
Written by Barnaby Page || 8th January 2016 || News analysis |
The shape of future e-cigarette regulation in the UK became clearer today with the release of the government’s response to one major public consultation, and the launch of another on the issue of...
As we move into 2016, nearly half of the 28 member states of the European Union (EU) have made little apparent progress in transposing its Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into their national law – despite the May 2016...
Written by Barnaby Page || 29th December 2015 || News analysis |
E-cigarette manufacturers may have a choice of mechanisms for safe refilling of their products under the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (EU...
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd December 2015 || News analysis |
One of the European Union’s most senior legal officers has upheld the validity of the revised Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), calling its requirements on e-cig manufacturers “relatively moderate” and “not...
Written by Barnaby Page || 20th December 2015 || News analysis |
France’s National Assembly has approved legislation that will enable the government to transpose the TPD by decree, and Germany has also published drafts of its proposed TPD...
Written by Barnaby Page || 18th December 2015 || News analysis |
An Italian regional court has reaffirmed its suspension of the country’s tax on zero-nicotine e-liquid, and referred the entire question of Italy’s e-cig taxes to the national Constitutional...
Written by Barnaby Page || 7th December 2015 || News analysis |
Are big tobacco companies starting to favour heat-not-burn technology over e-cigarettes? While none has shown any signs of overtly stepping away from e-cigs, and such a move is unlikely, much enthusiasm and investment within the tobacco industry seems...
Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd December 2015 || News analysis |
This new infographic from ECigIntelligence examines the state of e-cigarette regulation and transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) throughout the European...
Written by Barnaby Page || 2nd December 2015 || News analysis |
The e-cigarette world in 2016 will be overshadowed by regulation. But the story will not just be about compliance. The market and the products themselves are rapidly evolving even without the influence of law-makers. So requirements like the...
Hungary’s transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive will do away with the current mandatory pharmaceutical licensing requirement for e-cigarettes – which has resulted in no nicotine-containing products being legal in the country – and allow them to...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th November 2015 || News analysis |
American voters overwhelmingly want warning labels on e-cigarette packs and age restrictions on purchase, but are much less anxious to see prohibitions on flavours, a new poll...
Written by Barnaby Page || 5th November 2015 || News analysis |
The first convincing evidence of a causal link between under-age vaping and tobacco use has delivered a shock to those who favour banning sales to minors: e-cigarettes may actually reduce teen...
Written by Barnaby Page || 29th October 2015 || News analysis |
One in eight adult Americans has tried an e-cigarette, according to the federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), though only 3.7% are still using...
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th October 2015 || News analysis |
A team of tobacco control scholars has come under fire for omitting an important finding on e-cigarettes from the abstract of their latest scientific...