Daniel Mollenkamp, Author at ECigIntelligence

Blitz on Juul retailers as FDA goes into battle against e-cig sales to youth

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 24th April 2018 || News analysis |

In an unannounced enforcement blitz, the US FDA has cited 40 retailers for selling Juul e-cigs to young people in what it calls the first steps in a new effort aimed at stopping youth use of e-cigarettes ...

Will FDA reconsider cannabis vaping regulation in light of new research?

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd April 2018 || News analysis |

The US FDA may be considering future marijuana vaping regulation in the light of new academic research into opioids and the medical potential of cannabis ...

Man loses teeth, gains $2m in ‘pipe bomb’ battery case

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 18th April 2018 || News analysis |

In a case that could add to concerns over battery safety, a jury in Florida has awarded over $2m to a man who lost fourth teeth when an e-cigarette exploded in his mouth ...

FDA offers industry revised guidance on ingredients listing

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 18th April 2018 || News analysis |

The US FDA has issued updated guidance to manufacturers and importers on its ingredient listing submission requirements, suggesting they will be enforced for e-liquids but not for hardware such as coils, wicks and mouthpieces ...

Reynolds works with FDA to recall 2.6m Vuse Vibe power units

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 18th April 2018 || News analysis |

A US-wide safety recall was issued by RJ Reynolds Vapor Company for all Vuse Vibe power units after consumers complained that the batteries were malfunctioning, causing the units to overheat and creating a fire risk ...

San Francisco flavour debate looks to June referendum

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 15th April 2018 || News analysis |

Even as the US federal government gears up to take on flavours, the debate over San Francisco’s plan for a city-wide flavour ban is growing increasingly...

FDA chief warns of ‘blunt instruments’ approach to youth appeal

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 12th April 2018 || News analysis |

The head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that the agency will soon take action against e-cigarette companies that are targeting youth and urged firms to address the issue before being hit by enforcement...

Kansas district court deems local Tobacco 21 move unconstitutional

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 11th April 2018 || News analysis |

A court in Kansas has ruled against a local ordinance raising the age for buying tobacco products – which includes e-cigarettes – to 21, finding it...

Imperial looks towards vape store sector with a stake in Cosmic Fog

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 3rd April 2018 || News analysis |

Cosmic Fog Vapors is the latest e-cig independent to come into the fold of Big Tobacco, with Fontem Ventures, a subsidiary of Imperial Brands, acquiring a minority stake in the company ...

Criticism of its funding won’t hamper controversial foundation, says Yach

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 29th March 2018 || News analysis |

The massive criticism directed at the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) has not kept it from working with the best scientists in the field, according to its founder and president Derek Yach ...

Vaping industry is urged to break the link between flavours and youth

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 29th March 2018 || News analysis |

The e-cigarette industry could support the case for flavours – currently strongly associated in regulators’ minds with an appeal to youth – by changing its marketing strategies, according to Chris Howard of E-Alternative Solutions ...

Health charities sue FDA over extended deeming deadlines

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 28th March 2018 || News analysis |

Seven public health groups have brought a suit against the US Food and Drug Administration for extending deadlines for e-cigs and cigars on its controversial deeming regulations ...

FDA announces ANPRM amid youth e-cig flavour concerns

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd March 2018 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), concerned about flavours leading youth to start vaping, has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to explore options for regulation ...

Nicotine ‘more dangerous than drink’ according to survey respondents

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 21st March 2018 || News analysis |

More than half of US consumers wrongly believe that using nicotine every day is more dangerous than drinking every day, according to a new global survey from the Foundation for a Smoke-free World (FSFW) ...

Is PMI preparing for a future move into the cannabis business?

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 13th March 2018 || News analysis |

In our latest report on developments in the legal cannabis market, ECigIntelligence considers whether PMI may be setting up a future move in that direction. We also look at the potential dangers of synthetic cannabis products ...

Bloomberg vs PMI – a clash of the titans over the future of tobacco alternatives

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 9th March 2018 || News analysis |

The launch of a new anti-tobacco watchdog organisation, STOP, will increase the divide between those who welcome tobacco industry involvement in reduced-risk alternatives and those who want Big Tobacco excluded from the debate ...

U.S. Reps Tom Cole (left) and Sanford Bishop

US conservatives press for Cole-Bishop amendment in budget package

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 8th March 2018 || News analysis |

A letter from conservative groups in the US begs Republican leaders to adopt a version of the Cole-Bishop amendment in the final omnibus appropriations package for the fiscal year 2018 ...

New and unapproved? FDA inspectors could have plenty to look at

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 7th March 2018 || News analysis |

There may be widespread disregard of US FDA rules around the introduction of new vapour products and a new inspection regime may have its hands full, ECigIntelligence research suggests ...

FDA publishes requested amendments to PMI’s IQOS application

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 26th February 2018 || News analysis |

The US FDA has made some public amendments to PMI’s reduced risk applications for IQOS and three types of Marlboro HeatSticks products ...

New product enables legal e-liquid sampling in the US

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd February 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

A US advocacy and consulting group believes it has come up with a product that enables consumers to sample e-liquid and still conform to the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) sampling restrictions. The Cating Group launched its...

Canada’s health minister supports e-cig advertising ban

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd February 2018 || News analysis |

The federal health minister for Canada has called for “clear restrictions” on e-cigarette advertising and the need to keep young people from taking up e-cigs. The move is a turnaround from the stance of the previous health minister....

PMI execs promise to release raw data from IQOS trials, lambast media, praise FDA

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 22nd February 2018 || News analysis |

Top executives of Philip Morris International (PMI) have promised at a major US analysts’ conference to make the raw data from clinical and non-clinical studies for the company’s reduced risk products available to the public later this year...

CDC analysis shows US youth choose e-cigs for flavours and family

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 19th February 2018 || News analysis |

The most common reason that youth used e-cigs in the US in 2016 was that a friend or family member used them, according to information from the National Youth Survey for 2016, analysis of which was recently published...

FDA faces constitutional challenge to deeming rule in several courts at once

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 15th February 2018 || News analysis |

The libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) has brought a series of suits from vape stores across the US to several federal district courts, alleging that the FDA’s deeming rule violates the US Constitution ...

Senators urge rejection of PMI reduced risk application after TPSAC findings

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 13th February 2018 || News analysis |

Ten US Senators have urged the FDA to reject PMI's reduced risk application for IQOS following the findings of the independent Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) ...

Has Reuters’ IQOS investigation crucially dented PMI’s reputation?

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 8th February 2018 || News analysis |

The furore stirred up last year by the news agency Reuters’ coverage of Philip Morris International (PMI) has now died down, but it may have impacted on the company in three distinct ways ...

Wrigley takes another e-liquid maker to court over candy branding

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 6th February 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

Chewing-gum and confectionery manufacturer Wrigley has filed another US lawsuit against an e-liquid retailer, alleging violation of its trademarks for Skittles and Starburst candies ...

‘Not good enough’ – lung association gives FDA an ‘F’ for tobacco control

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 5th February 2018 || News analysis |

The US government has been given an ‘F’ grade by the American Lung Association for its federal tobacco regulations and taxation policies, blaming its “partial implementation” of the Tobacco Control Act ...

Will the Hawaiian Senate pass its online sales ban?

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 2nd February 2018 || News analysis |

The Hawaiian senate is considering two bills, which could prohibit online sales of e-cigarette products if passed. One could also subject e-liquids to the same excise tax as tobacco...

Science panel grills PMI over dual use and menthol in IQOS modified risk hearing

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 25th January 2018 || News analysis |

Questions over dual use and whether menthol flavours would attract at-risk groups led the start of the long-awaited Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing for Philip Morris International (PMI)’s modified risk claim for its IQOS heated-tobacco product ...

Vape startups turning to cannabis in face of attorney general’s opposition

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 25th January 2018 || News analysis |

Scrapping the old “for tobacco only” message, companies developing vaping gear have found it easier to raise capital for cannabis-based ventures than for those based on e-cigarettes or tobacco ...

Headline news – and the health debate is on after heavyweight report

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 25th January 2018 || News analysis |

An independent report commissioned by the FDA to evaluate the evidence for the health effects of e-cigarettes has come back with a mix of good and bad news for the industry and produced headlines around the US ...

Government shutdown may not halt FDA’s vaping and tobacco operations

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 22nd January 2018 || News analysis |

FDA oversight of the tobacco and e-cig industry looks likely to be virtually unaffected by the shutdown of US government functions as it continues to operate on fees paid by the industry ...

Study linking youth vaping with adult smoking gets wide US press coverage

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 11th January 2018 || News analysis |

A widely publicised report by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco claims to show that vaping leads young people in the US to smoking ...

E-cig advertisers hope to make those New Year’s resolutions stick

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 11th January 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

Several US companies have adopted a similar promotional gimmick, hoping to cash in on New Year’s resolutions to suggest quitting cigarettes by reaching for e-cigarettes ...

Could homeless smokers be given e-cigs free to help them quit?

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 8th January 2018 || News analysis |

A clinical trial among homeless people in Canada raises an intriguing question: could governments supply e-cigarettes free as a public health tool? And indeed, should they? ...

Ontario lays down the law on e-cigs, with blanket ban on flavours

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 18th December 2017 || News analysis |

An Ontario law which will impose further restrictions on e-cigarettes in the Canadian province – notably a rather vaguely worded ban on flavours – has received royal assent ...

Massachusetts pondering 20 cents per ml tax on e-liquids

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 11th December 2017 || News analysis |

A new proposal being considered by the General Court of Massachusetts would impose an excise tax of 20 cents per ml of e-liquid in the state ...

Florida constitution commission backs workplace vaping ban unanimously

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 11th December 2017 || News analysis |

Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission has unanimously approved a proposal by a former state senator to ban vaping in enclosed workplaces across the state ...

FDA extends deadline for Philip Morris IQOS comments

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 4th December 2017 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the deadline for comments on Philip Morris International’s (PMI’s) modified risk tobacco product application (MRTPA) for its IQOS heated tobacco device and Heatstick...

Totally Wicked opts to stay in US after FDA postponement

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 4th December 2017 || News analysis |

Totally Wicked has decided to not close its business in the US, following the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to postpone important compliance...

Better safe than very sorry – US fire chiefs’ warning on lithium ion batteries

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 28th November 2017 || News analysis |

A report by the US Fire Administration, published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, concludes: “The combination of an electronic cigarette and a lithium-ion battery is a new and unique hazard” ...

Pharmaceutical firm to breeze into vaping by buying e-liquid and hemp oil business

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 22nd November 2017 || Marketing & retailing |

Isodiol International, a Canadian-based pharmaceutical producer, is to enter the vaping industry through the acquisition of US e-liquid firm Bradley’s Bioscience ...

US trend for raising the age limit may not be bad news for the vape industry

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 15th November 2017 || News analysis |

The vaping business may find there’s a silver lining in a growing trend among local legislations across the US of rolling e-cigarettes in with other tobacco products ...

Aspen, celebrity ski resort, slaps 40% tax on vaping products

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 15th November 2017 || News analysis |

The world-famous US ski resort of Aspen is to place a 40% tax on e-cigarette products after a city ballot produced a 75% vote in favour of the measure ...

Big Tobacco puts more weight behind e-cigs as Altria invests in Avail

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 8th November 2017 || News analysis |

Altria, the tobacco giant behind Marlboro and other well-known brands, has taken a minority stake in leading US e-liquid maker and e-cig retailer Avail Vapor ...

To Be or not to Be? That’s the question posed by new ad campaigns

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 6th November 2017 || Marketing & retailing |

A new advertising campaign for Blu e-cigarettes invites potential customers to “Be bold” – while an FDA programme aimed at retailers bids to keep youth and e-cigs apart ...

FDA publishes tobacco info as deadline for ingredients listing looms

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 3rd November 2017 || News analysis |

The US FDA has released guidance notes for importers and manufacturers ahead of Wednesday’s approaching deadline for e-cig companies to submit ingredients listings ...

New York ‘closes a loophole’ with state-wide ban on indoor public vaping

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 25th October 2017 || News analysis |

New York state has moved to ban vaping in indoor public spaces, including all workplaces, restaurants and bars ...

Association founder pleads guilty to $800,000 fraud

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 24th October 2017 || News analysis |

A co-founder of the Council of Independent Tobacco Manufacturers of America (CITMA) has pleaded guilty to defrauding a trade association of more than...

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