David Palacios Rubio, Author at ECigIntelligence

European Commission commits to taking ‘stricter’ approach to tobacco alternatives

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd February 2021 || News analysis |

The European Commission has committed itself to a more restrictive legislative approach to tobacco-related products, to protect the public “from picking up lasting habits that are damaging to health” ...

Imperial to pursue a ‘more concentrated’ market approach to vaping sector

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 28th January 2021 || News analysis |

Imperial Brands has announced a substantial change in strategy towards its vapour segment, with more focused investment in its Blu e-cigarette brand ...

Relx aims to raise $1bn in US stock sale amid concerns over regulation and tariffs

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 21st January 2021 || News analysis |

China’s leading e-cigarette company, Relx, is hoping to raise up to $1.17bn from a US initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange ...

US judge dismisses investors’ ‘meritless’ case against major Juul distributor

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 19th January 2021 || News analysis |

A class-action lawsuit against one of Juul’s largest distributors has been dismissed by a US judge who described it as “meritless” and “a hammer in search of a nail” ...

Royal Navy bans vaping at sea as UK armed forces aim to cut it out

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 12th January 2021 || News analysis |

Vaping is no longer allowed on UK Royal Navy vessels under a Ministry of Defence strategy to achieve a smoke-free – and vape-free – generation among all the armed forces ...

What lies over the horizon for the worldwide e-cigarette industry in 2021?

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 7th January 2021 || News analysis |

2021 is sure to be another significant year for the vaping industry across the globe, with a bunch of new regulations on the horizon – and hopefully a light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel ...

UK vaping industry gives a cautious welcome to last-ditch Brexit deal

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 24th December 2020 || News analysis |

The British vaping industry has broadly welcomed the agreement reached on Christmas Eve between the UK and EU over the trade relations the two parties will enjoy from 1st January ...

Australia requires prescription to import e-cigs; Senate calls for friendlier regs

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd December 2020 || News analysis |

Anyone wanting to import nicotine e-cigarettes into Australia from 1st October 2021 will require a doctor’s prescription, despite a Senate committee’s call for e-cigs to be more generally available ...

Western Australia MP aims for 50,000 signatures on petition to legalise vaping

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 17th December 2020 || News analysis |

A member of the Parliament of Western Australia has launched a petition to effectively legalise vaping by allowing the sale of nicotine e-liquid in the state ...

Biden picks California attorney general for key role of US health secretary

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 7th December 2020 || News analysis |

US president-elect Joe Biden has named California attorney general Xavier Becerra – an opponent of both smoking and vaping – as his choice for the vital role of health and human services secretary ...

MEPs give green light to new seven-year EU health programme

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 13th November 2020 || News analysis |

The European Parliament approved by an overwhelming majority the EU health policy programme for the period 2021-2027 aimed at tackling some of the main health issues in Europe, including tobacco policy ...

Australian Senate committee begins hearings on harm reduction this week

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 11th November 2020 || News analysis |

An Australian Senate committee to inquire into tobacco harm reduction strategies will meet for the first time in Canberra on Friday, and again week later in Sydney ...

Montana’s newly elected governor a ‘major win’ for the e-cig industry

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th November 2020 || News analysis |

Montana’s newly elected governor – a business-friendly Republican replacing an anti-vaping Democrat – has received the blessing of the state’s e-cigarette industry ...

JT launches new tobacco vapour device amid segment revenue decline

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 2nd November 2020 || News analysis |

Japan Tobacco (JT) has launched in the domestic market a new tobacco-infused vapour device “Ploom TECH+ with” a few days after the manufacturer posted less revenue for its reduce-risk portfolio in the third quarter of the year ...

France investigates vaping market to detect and correct inconsistencies

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 29th October 2020 || News analysis |

New research from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) has indicated the positives and negatives of the vaping market in the country, and highlighted those areas for future investigation ...

EU ‘roadmap’ to show route to taxation of tobacco alternatives by autumn 2021

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 21st October 2020 || News analysis |

The tax authorities in Brussels are to give a final decision on introducing a new harmonised tax scheme for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products in a year’s time ...

US representative asks the FDA to work with small vape firms on PMTAs

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 19th October 2020 || News analysis |

A US congressman has called on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Stephen Hahn to work with small vaping businesses that submit premarket tobacco applications (PMTAs) “in good faith” ...

Australian pharmacists ready to take up central role in e-cigarette distribution

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 13th October 2020 || News analysis |

Pharmacists across Australia are waiting for more details after the announcement by the country’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) that they would be exclusive distributors of prescribed e-cigarettes ...

Imperial’s revenue from tobacco alternatives down 30% from last year

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 9th October 2020 || News analysis |

Imperial Brands has revealed that the company’s net revenue from its next-generation portfolio is around 30% down on 2019, while overall company revenue remains flat ...

Brussels suggests changing the wording of Denmark’s plan to ban e-cig flavours

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 2nd October 2020 || News analysis |

Brussels has given a negative opinion on the plan put forward by the Danish Ministry of Health to ban all flavoured e-liquids, water pipes and chewing tobacco except tobacco and menthol flavour from 2022 ...

Korean government aiming to double e-liquid ‘health promotion tax’ from 2021

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 28th September 2020 || News analysis |

South Korea has announced that it intends to double the National Health Promotion fee applied to e-liquids marketed in the country ...

EU: evidence to support e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool ‘weak’

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 25th September 2020 || News analysis |

A leading EU scientific committee says evidence “for the support of electronic cigarettes' effectiveness in helping smokers to quit” is weak, and has warned about nicotine addiction in young people ...

Australia opens the door to e-cig sales by pharmacies; state MPs call for regulation

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 24th September 2020 || News analysis |

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has relaxed its position on e-cigarettes, deciding they can be available legally from pharmacies if prescribed by a doctor “to support smoking cessation” ...

COVID-19 restrictions delay EU scientific evidence on e-cigs and TPD revision

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 17th September 2020 || News analysis |

The scientific committee of the European Commission is to delay delivery of its conclusions on vaping, which will inform the impact assessment on the revision of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...

E-cigarette use by US school students falls by a third in a year, CDC reports

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 10th September 2020 || News analysis |

New official data shows that the number of young people in the US who are current e-cigarette users has fallen sharply, from 5.4m in 2019 to 3.6m this year ...

Wednesday 4pm: final countdown to the PMTA deadline

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 7th September 2020 || News analysis |

The final deadline for premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) for e-cig products in the US is now imminent, with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially setting it at 4pm on 9th September ...

PHE: seven-year report on the UK’s soon-to-be-disbanded authority on vaping

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd September 2020 || News analysis |

The recent news that the British government is to scrap Public Health England and replace it with a new institute makes this an appropriate moment to look back at some of PHE’s achievements in creating policies and evidence...

Australia bans tobacco alternatives while leaving e-cigarettes on prescription

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 27th August 2020 || News analysis |

The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued a final decision that leaves the sale of all tobacco-alternative products banned in the country, while still allowing e-cigarettes on prescription only ...

US vape industry seeks PMTA deadline extension to 2021 for small businesses

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 25th August 2020 || News analysis |

A group of manufacturers and vaping associations in the US have asked the FDA for a six-month extension to the premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) deadline for small companies ...

Smoore ‘positively shocked’ about its Hong Kong IPO response

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th August 2020 || News analysis |

Chinese vaping manufacturer Smoore believes that the good round of investment that the company got after being officially listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange a month ago prove its “financial strength” ...

Spanish industry rebels against government anti-vaping campaign

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd August 2020 || News analysis |

The Union of Vaping Promoters and Entrepreneurs (UPEV) has taken the anti-tobacco campaign from the Ministry of Health to the Spanish Ombudsman amid “hurting industry interests” ...

Juul submits 125,000-page PMTA application to the US FDA

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 31st July 2020 || News analysis |

Juul has submitted a 125,000-page premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to continue selling its tobacco and menthol pods in the country ...

Juul US volume drops 10% in a year; hires a new director

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 29th July 2020 || News analysis |

The volume of Juul in the US is estimated at 440m units in Q2 2020, nearly 10% less than in 2019, while the company aims to “reset” its business ...

Russia adopts first ever federal e-cigarette regulation

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 24th July 2020 || News analysis |

Russia has passed the first e-cigarette regulation in the country, which imposes tighter regulations for e-cigs and extending anti-tobacco legislation to e-liquids ...

EU spent €500k on TPD study and ‘reactive communication’ on tobacco

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd July 2020 || News analysis |

The EU Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) spent more than €180m in 2019 on public health policies, including a study on the TPD and a media campaign on novel tobacco products ...

EU Council to ‘promote’ revision of tobacco excise directive

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 13th July 2020 || News analysis |

The upcoming presidencies of the Council of the European Union have agreed to include the revision of the Directive 2011/64 on the structure and rates of excise duties applied to manufactured tobacco in their strategic agenda ...

Enforcing Germany’s ban on outdoor advertising ‘will cost €2.2m a year’

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 2nd July 2020 || News analysis |

Germany’s anticipated decision to ban outdoor advertising of tobacco, including vaping and heat-not-burn (HnB) products could cost the public finances an estimated €2.27m a year ...

Australia postpones its e-cigarette import ban until next year

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 26th June 2020 || News analysis |

The ban on all e-cigarette imports into Australia that was due to come into force next week has now been delayed until January 2021 ...

Australia cracks down still harder, banning e-cig imports from 1st July

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd June 2020 || News analysis |

Australian health minister Greg Hunt has announced that importing e-cigarettes will be banned from 1st July “to reduce the risk to public health through addiction to nicotine and nicotine poisoning” ...

Hot debate in New Zealand over fine detail of bill to regulate e-cigarettes

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 15th June 2020 || News analysis |

An intense debate is on-going in New Zealand between representatives and health officials over planned legislation to regulate vaping products in the country for the first time ...

EU nations want ‘urgently’ to bring all novel tobacco products under tax rules

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd June 2020 || News analysis |

The Council of the European Union considers it “urgent and necessary” to harmonise the definitions and tax treatment of novel tobacco products such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products ...

World No Tobacco Day 2020: the debate about harm reduction

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 31st May 2020 || News analysis |

World No Tobacco Day provides an opportunity to consider the approach that public health authorities, policymakers, and advocates around the world have towards the role of tobacco-alternatives products ...

States urge European Commission to include e-cigs in EU tax directive

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 28th May 2020 || News analysis |

EU nations are to recommend to the European Commission that e-cigarettes should be included in the forthcoming revision of the structure and rates of tax applied to manufactured tobacco products ...

Altria aims for non-combustible success after Juul ‘disappointment’

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 16th May 2020 || News analysis |

Virginia-based tobacco manufacturer Altria aims to establish the company as the industry leader by increasing its tobacco alternatives portfolio in ten years’ time and joining efforts in preventing underage use ...

Juul hits hard times as it plans to exit EU markets, US sales drop 10%

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 6th May 2020 || News analysis |

Juul is not having the best of times, with an increasing decline in sales leading the company to pull out of South Korea and some European countries – while its sales in the US are not doing much...

Planned e-cig tax and restrictions to go before Danish Parliament

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 6th May 2020 || News analysis |

The Danish government is to submit to Parliament a proposal to levy a tax on e-cigarettes and a national action plan on restricting e-cigarettes to cut tobacco uptake by young people ...

FDA angers US House subcommittee by refusing to stop all e-cigarette sales

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 21st April 2020 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected a call to “clear the e-cigarette market” during the COVID-19 crisis – eliciting an angry response from a House subcommittee ...

Brussels admits delays may occur in TPD revision; EU notifications hit 250k

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 16th April 2020 || News analysis |

Brussels is continuing work on the revision of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), but admits some of the research work could be delayed by the coronavirus crisis ...

US Federal Trade Commission sues Altria over Juul investment

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd April 2020 || News analysis |

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking tobacco manufacturer Altria to court over its acquisition of a 35% stake in shares in Juul, alleging that the agreement between the two companies violated federal antitrust laws ...

US FDA requests extension of PMTA deadline due to coronavirus problems

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 31st March 2020 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested a 120-day extension to the deadline for premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) due to the challenges that the coronavirus outbreak is posing to companies ...

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