Written by Barnaby Page || 14th June 2015 || News analysis |
A senior member of the U.S. Senate has asked the government to start tracking imports of e-cigarette products, saying that the high proportion manufactured overseas has “revenue, public health and economic...
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th June 2015 || News analysis |
The $27bn acquisition of Lorillard (number three in the market) by Reynolds American (number two) is expected to complete on Friday following the removal of the final legal...
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th June 2015 || News analysis |
New data on the habits of vapers in the U.S. appears to back up the widely-held view that tank-type systems are attracting more consumer loyalty and providing a more satisfactory consumer experience than disposable...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th June 2015 || News analysis |
Wales is likely to become the first part of the United Kingdom to prohibit vaping in workplaces and enclosed public spaces, while milder regulation has been tabled before Scotland’s...
Research on e-cigarettes and public health is being held back by a lack of agreement on the agenda, ethical issues and practical barriers, a leading British academic in the field has...
The background to Greek regulation • National regulatory framework • Age restrictions • Product and packaging restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Taxation • Case law • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw...
Both smokers and non-smokers in Britain are becoming increasingly concerned by the health effects of e-cigarettes, even as vaping grows in popularity, according to new...
E-cigarette users are unlikely to expose themselves to the dangerous amounts of formaldehyde that the devices can theoretically produce, because these are generated only at high levels of heat that bring about a repellent taste, says new research...
An Italian court has ruled that e-cigarette products cannot be taxed as if they were tobacco products, because tobacco’s harmful effects are not obvious in them. And a further case covering a newer tax could...
The domestic Chinese market for e-cigarettes appears to finally be opening up, with a major manufacturer having started distribution of nicotine-containing cigalikes through convenience stores at the beginning of this year, and a number of others having plans...
Written by Barnaby Page || 30th April 2015 || News analysis |
The top four mainstream e-cigarette brands in the U.S. will all be in the hands of tobacco companies following an agreement by Japan Tobacco (JT) to purchase...
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd April 2015 || News analysis |
E-cigarette regulation is back on the agenda in the Philippines with a proposal to add novel nicotine delivery products to the country’s relatively easy-going tobacco...
Written by Barnaby Page || 20th April 2015 || News analysis |
Many thought that not getting Blu as part of the Lorillard takeover was a downside for Reynolds, or an inexplicable decision. But increasingly it looks like it might be no big...
How do the costs of vaping and smoking compare around Europe? Our data shows the typical extra cost of a pack of cigarettes, compared with 10ml of e-liquid, in major European...
Written by Barnaby Page || 13th April 2015 || News analysis |
A panel advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected attempts by Swedish Match to claim that snus is less harmful than cigarettes – yet some members did accept its assertions of reduced...
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Comparison with tobacco regulation • Public use restrictions • Age restrictions • Packaging and point-of-sale requirements • Advertising restrictions • Medical claims • Taxes • Enforcement • Case...
Written by Barnaby Page || 2nd April 2015 || News analysis |
Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG), the U.S. company behind brands such as FIN, Vapestick, Victory and VIP, increased its sales nearly 15-fold during 2014 but still recorded a loss approaching...
Written by Barnaby Page || 31st March 2015 || News analysis |
The Dutch government was entitled to start implementing the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) more than a year before the deadline to bring it into force, a court has...
Written by Barnaby Page || 28th March 2015 || News analysis |
Tobacco-flavoured e-liquid contains significantly lower levels of harmful compounds than tobacco itself, even when the flavouring is produced from cured tobacco leaves, new research...
Written by Barnaby Page || 27th March 2015 || News analysis |
The Latvian government is considering implementing some of the toughest restrictions on e-cigarette use in the European Union, requiring all products to have a medical...
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th March 2015 || News analysis |
Vape stores did not escape the epidemic of small-business failures in France last year, but there are still positive signs of life in the sector and it can survive by differentiating itself from non-specialist retailers, according to a...
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th March 2015 || News analysis |
After putting into force temporary rules on e-cigarettes last month, the Netherlands has now moved closer to implementing the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) with a proposal for fuller...
Written by Barnaby Page || 16th March 2015 || News analysis |
Canada is taking the first steps toward much-desired federal regulation of e-cigarettes with the release of a parliamentary committee report making detailed recommendations on the shape of national...
New proposals by the Danish government to transpose the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into Denmark’s domestic law are the first comprehensive attempt to do so by any European...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th March 2015 || News analysis |
Consumers’ attitudes to e-cigarettes and tobacco appear to be influenced by factors as diverse as warning labels, TV ads, individual smoking habits and even levels of numeracy, according to recent...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th March 2015 || News analysis |
Pax Labs, the U.S. heat-not-burn manufacturer previously known as Ploom, today launches a new generation of its namesake device which it is positioning as “the most intelligent, premium and highest performing vaporizer in the...
Written by Barnaby Page || 5th March 2015 || News analysis |
Canada’s third-largest province is poised to introduce e-cigarette rules including a public vaping ban, as provincial governments across the country move to cut across the regulatory confusion created by an uncertain federal...
Written by Barnaby Page || 5th March 2015 || News analysis |
About two thirds of large countries have some form of e-cigarette regulation, and they tend to control the products using existing laws relating to tobacco or nicotine, according to new...
Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd March 2015 || News analysis |
The Danish government has drafted a bill which will allow e-cigarettes to be sold as consumer products – but which also introduces heavy restrictions on their design, marketing and...
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd February 2015 || News analysis |
One of the main architects of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has expressed his strong support for e-cigarettes, starkly separating himself from the position adopted by the FCTC at its Moscow summit...