Written by David Palacios Rubio || 19th October 2017 || News analysis |
France is planning a steep rise in the minimum price of traditional cigarettes – but will that lead to an increased take-up of e-cigarettes as an alternative? It could certainly create an opportunity for the industry ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th October 2017 || News analysis |
Switzerland’s vaping industry is not entirely convinced by statistics for e-cig use published by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and the foundation Addiction Suisse ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 21st September 2017 || News analysis |
The launch of the Philip Morris International-sponsored Foundation for a Smoke-Free World has met with mixed reactions from the world of science and public health ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 20th September 2017 || News analysis |
Sweden is set to bring in a new tax on e-cigarettes, following a proposal in the national budget for 2018. The exact nature and level of the tax will be determined after consultation with relevant bodies ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 14th September 2017 || News analysis |
The French consumer affairs department has published a list of recommendations on the use of e-cigarette batteries following two recent reports of explosions in users’ pockets ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 7th September 2017 || News analysis |
The Dutch health ministry is to bring in new regulation of vapour products, including a 10 ml limit on non-nicotine e-liquids and some vaguely worded restrictions on e-cigarette packaging ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 31st August 2017 || News analysis |
A study for the German government has concluded that “e-cigarettes are significantly less harmful than tobacco”, but adds a warning that the long-term effects remain unknown ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd August 2017 || News analysis |
Facebook groups, vape stores with websites, and private vaping rooms have all been targeted as officials tell vapers: buy from specialist stores, where products are controlled and safe ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 11th August 2017 || News analysis |
Slovenia was among the last few countries in the EU to transpose the TPD into national law, and it is not yet fully clear how a tough regulatory regime will play out in practice ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 10th August 2017 || News analysis |
Researchers in Croatia have found that more than half the e-liquids they tested exceeded the maximum nicotine concentration level laid down by the European TPD ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 10th August 2017 || News analysis |
Increasing demand for smoke-free products is leading many tobacco companies to open new facilities for heat-not-burn manufacturing – in some cases, even replacing...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd August 2017 || News analysis |
More than a tenth of Italians trying to give up smoking (10.7%) use e-cigarettes to help them – more than any other cessation aids – but the vast majority use no aid at all ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd August 2017 || News analysis |
2017 has already been a significant year in the short history of e-cigarettes – and there is more to come in the remaining five months of a the year ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd August 2017 || News analysis |
A move by the US FDA to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes to non-addictive levels could encourage Big Tobacco to put yet more effort into alternatives ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 20th July 2017 || News analysis |
The $49.4bn takeover of Reynolds American by British American Tobacco (BAT) is set to go through next week after being approved by shareholders of both...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 12th July 2017 || News analysis |
The Austrian e-cigarette company Von Erl has gone into what it describes as a partnership with Imperial Brands subsidiary Fontem Ventures, the makers of blu, in the hope of boosting its international expansion ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th July 2017 || News analysis |
South Korea’s largest tobacco manufacturer, KT&G, is to start selling a new heat-not-burn (HnB) product, in direct competition with PMI’s iQOS and BAT’s Glo...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 15th June 2017 || News analysis |
One in ten Europeans who have tried to give up smoking have used e-cigarettes or similar devices to help them, according to a wide-ranging public opinion survey for the European...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 13th June 2017 || News analysis |
Spain, one of the last few European Union countries to transpose the Tobacco Products Directive into national law, has now partly done so through a royal...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 9th June 2017 || News analysis |
Trade barriers against e-cigarettes, or the outright banning of vapour products, contravene world trading regulations, next week’s Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw will...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 7th June 2017 || News analysis |
Menthol flavouring for e-cigarettes is to be allowed in Germany after all following a decision by the Federal Council that it should be removed from the list of banned...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 30th May 2017 || News analysis |
Two new surveys suggest that most French and Spanish vapers have used e-cigarettes to give up smoking, for both health and financial reasons – and that very few had continued to smoke after taking up...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 24th May 2017 || News analysis |
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been named as the next director general of the World Health Organization, a role with huge influence on governments around the world, and therefore on the potential future of e-cigarette...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 19th May 2017 || News analysis |
The European Commission described the TPD a year ago as the tool that “aims to improve the functioning of the internal market for tobacco and related products, while ensuring a high level of health protection for European citizens”....
How far has Europe’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) succeeded in its goal of harmonising the e-cig market across the EU? For many, the jury is still...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 16th May 2017 || News analysis |
E-cigarettes are more popular than they are successful as smoking cessation aids in Japan, according to a recent study which suggests they should therefore “not be recommended or...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 20th April 2017 || News analysis |
Sociologist Amelia Howard will tell the 2017 Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw that a lack of trust in the e-cigarette industry leads governments around the world to introduce harsh measures against a low-risk...
The Californian company behind the e-liquid brand Choops Liquids has changed the logo on its packaging after protests from the owner of the famous Spanish lollipop brand Chupa...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 11th April 2017 || News analysis |
A contested amendment to Estonia’s Tobacco Act proposes a ban on all e-liquid flavours except tobacco as well as a prohibition on domestic distance selling of vape...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd March 2017 || News analysis |
Almost half of French e-cigarette users are reluctant to vape in public spaces, even where it is permitted – and even though a majority consider e-cigarettes more socially acceptable than smoking....
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 21st March 2017 || News analysis |
Ireland and the Isle of Man hope to cut down on prison violence – and the smoking of nicotine patches and tea-bags by inmates – by following the UK in allowing vaping in...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 15th March 2017 || News analysis |
Hungary has implemented the European TPD, finally opening up its market to nicotine e-cigarettes – but its regulatory regime remains the most severe in...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 15th March 2017 || News analysis |
Raising taxes on e-cigarette products would cause an increase in cross-border sales and lead to some users taking up smoking again, users told a European consultation on excise...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 6th March 2017 || News analysis |
Ethan Nadelmann, widely regarded as the outstanding U.S. proponent of drug policy reform around the world, is to share his views on the links between policy and harm reduction at this summer’s Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN)....
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 6th March 2017 || News analysis |
French retailer Le Petit Vapoteur has taken second place in a list of Europe's 5000 fastest-growing private companies, demonstrating the potential for spectacular success in a market threatened by newly imposed...
Europe’s e-cigarette manufacturers and importers had submitted more than 70,000 individual products to the European Union Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG) by the end of 2016 – and that number is expected to have rapidly...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 27th February 2017 || News analysis |
Bulgarians have taken up vaping enthusiastically - and their chief reason for doing so is the freedom to vape indoors and in public places where smoking is...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 22nd February 2017 || News analysis |
French doctors, officially barred from giving advice on vaping, have been offered a set of recommendations on how to answer patients' questions about e-cigarettes - and which groups of patients they can be most useful...