Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th February 2020 || News analysis |
In a regulatory decision not yet seen in other states, Maryland is to become the first state to ban the sale of disposable flavoured e-cigarette devices ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th February 2020 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to lose its power to regulate tobacco and e-cigarette products if Congress passes president Donald Trump’s porposed budget for fiscal year 2021 ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th February 2020 || News analysis |
Pupils in the southwestern German state of Rhineland-Palatinate are to be taught about the possible health impacts of e-cigarettes as part of the school curriculum ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 12th February 2020 || News analysis |
President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign to increase annually the “sin” taxes on e-cigarettes, vapour products, and alcoholic drinks in the Philippines goes on. The Republic Act 11467, signed by Duterte on 22nd January, combines House Bill 1026 and Senate...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th February 2020 || News analysis |
Malaysia is now expected to table its first e-cigarette regulation in June, but officials in Kuala Lumpur are still assessing how restrictive the new rules should be ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th February 2020 || News analysis |
A leading Oregon senator and vocal opponent of vaping has introduced a bill to ban flavoured nicotine vaping products in the state, with the support of the state attorney general ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th February 2020 || News analysis |
Dozens of Canadian companies have been forced to stop sales or recall vaping products following hundreds of consumer product inspections by Canada’s federal government ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 6th February 2020 || News analysis |
Delve into the ECigIntelligence analysis of secondary device usage in Russia including the most popular form factor and form factor combinations. The in-depth market report provides further insights on hardware usage patterns in Russia, shifts between form factors,...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 6th February 2020 || News analysis |
PMI saw its market share of heated tobacco units in IQOS markets, excluding the US, rise by 1.4 percentage points to 5% last year, with a 44.2% increase in HnB shipments ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 5th February 2020 || News analysis |
Imperial Brands, maker of the e-cigarette brand Blu, expects “significantly lower” year-on-year net revenues on its “next generation products” as a consequence of “regulatory uncertainty and adverse news flow” ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 5th February 2020 || News analysis |
State legislatures across the US have begun new sessions, with e-cigarettes high on the agenda and a number of proposed bills to prohibit the sale of most flavoured vaping products ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th February 2020 || News analysis |
The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare wants to ban practices such as the offering of discounts for e-cigarette or heated tobacco products and to make events with free giveaways of such products illegal ...
While politicians in Germany continue to debate a future ban on tobacco-related advertising, new figures show that expenditure on ads by the country’s tobacco industry has increased ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd February 2020 || News analysis |
In a move that will please the Greek Electronic Cigarette Businesses Association, the country’s government has decided after all to regulate do-it-yourself (DIY) vaping products in Greece ...
This regulatory report provides information on the restrictions on vaping in Morocco, which are limited, looking at the general regulatory landscape as well as taxation ...
Japan Tobacco (JT) is cutting the price of its Ploom Tech and Ploom Tech+ hybrid devices from 1st February as it continues to lag behind its chief Big Tobacco competitors in its home market ...
ECigIntelligence analysis identifies the most sold heated tobacco consumable, which is consistent with online trends showing the brands garnering the most interest. For more insights including forecasts, market shares and retailer survey analysis, see the full Switzerland market...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 22nd January 2020 || News analysis |
Lack of reliable scientific data on the long-term effects of vaping is leading life and health insurers to take a cautious approach to insuring e-cigarette users ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st January 2020 || News analysis |
The New Jersey Senate and State Assembly have both approved proposals to ban the sale of flavoured vapour products across the state and stiffen penalties for sales to minors ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th January 2020 || News analysis |
Wisconsin governor Tony Evers has announced that his administration will work to curb youth vaping in the state through various actions including bills to ban sales to minors and an e-cig ban in schools ...
Californian regulation of e-cigs is tightening. This report covers all aspects of the regulations in place and planned, from age restrictions to taxation, labelling and marketing restrictions ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th January 2020 || News analysis |
A New York State Supreme Court judge has blocked the emergency regulation banning the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes announced last September by governor Andrew Cuomo ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th January 2020 || News analysis |
The recent highly publicised outbreak of vape-related lung illness in the US appears to have had a damaging impact on the vaping business in South Africa, despite the strength of the market ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th January 2020 || News analysis |
Latin America’s biggest e-cigarette market is Mexico followed by Brazil. Interestingly, ECigIntelligence found that these two markets also have the largest price ranges for hardware. To understand more about both new and established Latin American e-cig markets, see...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th January 2020 || News analysis |
Californian lawmakers have introduced a bill in the state legislature that would ban the sale of all flavoured tobacco products, including those containing menthol ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th January 2020 || News analysis |
The UK’s advertising watchdog has found that BAT failed to follow national regulations on its website and through YouTube commercials for its Vype e-cigarette brand ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 8th January 2020 || News analysis |
The South Korean Board of Audit and Inspection says it tested ten e-liquids labelled as having less than 1% nicotine and found half of them in fact contained more than that ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th January 2020 || News analysis |
Mexico by far has the largest vaping market in Latin America, as shown here in our comparitive report. This is partly due to its large population, though brand diversity remains narrow. For more insights into Mexico’s e-cigarette market,...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd January 2020 || News analysis |
Falling Spanish e-cigarette sales have led to job losses, with vape stores closing, according to the country’s Union of Vaping Promoters and Entrepreneurs ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st December 2019 || News analysis |
Colombia’s e-cigarette market is relatively mature and well-established when compared to other coutries in the same region. Despite impending regulatory changes, ECigIntelligence predicts steady growth for this market for the next three years. Interested in key indicators and...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th December 2019 || News analysis |
“The year just gone has been an intense one for the vaping industry – and don’t expect 2019 to be any less so.” So we said a year ago. We didn’t know the half of it ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 27th December 2019 || News analysis |
A leading Finnish retailer of vaping products is asking customers who buy flavouring liquids to sign a form stating that they are not buying them for use with e-cigarettes ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th December 2019 || News analysis |
The root of the US lung illness outbreak is now believed to lie in vaping of cannabis oils, but the damage to e-cigs’ reputation goes on – as do efforts to restrict vaping, especially flavoured products. Here is...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th December 2019 || News analysis |
New York State health officials have voted to renew governor Andrew Cuomo’s temporary ban on flavoured e-cigarette products for another 90 days – but the law won’t allow them to enforce it ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd December 2019 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have seized 44 websites they said were selling illicit vapour cartridges containing THC ...
Our host for today’s podcast is Tim Phillips, the founder and managing director of ECigIntelligence, who presents a year overview and analysis of the regulatory path in the e-cigarette sector ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st December 2019 || News analysis |
The Canadian government has announced plans to tighten the rules governing e-cigarettes and vaping products in a bid to curb the growth of youth vaping ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th December 2019 || News analysis |
A French MP has presented a new bill to establish the same rules for nicotine and nicotine-free e-liquids, aiming to create tools to promote vaping as a cessation tool for smokers ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th December 2019 || News analysis |
Regulation in Belgium and possibly across Europe may change as a result of the link being made between vaping and a teenager’s death – though that link has not been verified ...
Ukraine could be the next country to introduce an excise tax burden on vaping products, although as it stands excise tax will apply only to heated tobacco from January 2020 ...
How did Swedish Match USA manage to get eight General snus products approved by the US FDA as modified risk tobacco products after being previously unsuccessful? ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th December 2019 || News analysis |
Lawmakers in Texas are proposing further restrictions on e-cigarettes despite a recently implemented a statewide policy restricting vaping to those aged 21 and above ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th December 2019 || News analysis |
The French National Academy of Medicine (Académie nationale de médecine, ANM) says an outbreak of vaping-related lung illness like that in the US could not happen in France ...
There is still no effective national e-cigarette legislation in force in Taiwan, with draft amendment of the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act still pending for review ...
Although e-cigarette commercialization is illegal in Mexico, it has the largest vaping market in South America.
For more insights on the e-cigarette markets in 7 South American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Costa Rica, see our...