ECigIntelligence takes a look at the rules and regulations governing the e-cig market in North Macedonia, including the new laws that have come into effect in 2019 and how ties with EU regulations are getting closer ...
Four major convenience store chains in South Korea are to suspend sales of some flavoured e-cigarettes after the government announced it is carrying out an assessment of possible health effects ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 6th November 2019 || News analysis |
Voters in San Francisco have opted overwhelmingly to confirm the ban on the sale, distribution or manufacture of e-cigarette products in the city, which will now come into effect on 1st January ...
The outbreak of vape-related lung illness across the US is having a damaging effect on e-cig retail, from small vape stores hit by plummeting receipts to big store chains emptying their shelves of vapour products ...
The 2019 ECigIntelligence survey of US vape stores explores the sector’s early reactions to the bringing forward of the PMTA deadline to May 2020, and what they expect to do in response ...
The US FDA's new proposed rule for PMTAs provides details of how to structure the application as well as what to include. This report looks at this rule in detail ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th November 2019 || News analysis |
Germany’s leading authority on the safety of food and chemical products has issued a warning against do-it-yourself mixing of e-liquids and urged vapers to stick to legally regulated products ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 1st November 2019 || News analysis |
Altria’s global net revenues rose 0.3% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2019 to $6.86bn, primarily due to higher net revenues in the smokeless products segment ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st October 2019 || News analysis |
Falling sales of Japan Tobacco’s heated tobacco device Ploom Tech have hit the company’s total revenue from reduced risk products, which fell by JPY7.1bn ($65.7m) to JPY17.8bn ($164.6m) in Q3 2019 ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st October 2019 || News analysis |
China's state tobacco monopoly is studying plans to tighten regulations on the sale and use of e-cigarettes, after a government adviser publicly declared support for an outright ban on vaping products ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th October 2019 || News analysis |
Juul Labs has described as “baseless” a claim by a former executive of the company that it knowingly sent to market around a million contaminated e-cigarette pods ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th October 2019 || News analysis |
The wave of executive actions against vaping across US states continues to be followed by a wave of judicial actions to stop it, with Michigan, Rhode Island and Utah the latest states embroiled in litigation ...
The Italian Ministry of Health has banned sales of a nicotine salt product from Milan-based company Blendfeel while tests are carried out to ascertain its safety for consumers ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th October 2019 || News analysis |
Promotion of vaping products in convenience stores and gas stations is to be banned in Ontario from 1st January, while Alberta could become the first province in Canada to tax e-cigarettes ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 28th October 2019 || News analysis |
The Turkish Ministry of Health is drafting a new proposal to clamp down on public vaping and the importing of vapour devices, officials have confirmed to ECigIntelligence ...
New Jersey e-liquid manufacturer Eonsmoke has been ordered by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove from the market 96 products that do not have a marketing authorisation order ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 25th October 2019 || News analysis |
More than four out of five adult smokers in the US favour requiring tobacco companies to lower the levels of nicotine in cigarettes to make them less addictive, researchers have found ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th October 2019 || News analysis |
South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare has announced a set of measures to restrict imports, sales and use of e-cigarettes and recommended users to stop vaping to avoid “lung damage and death” ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th October 2019 || News analysis |
Rules proposed by the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division could provide a national US model on product safety in the light of the on-going vape-related lung illness outbreak ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th October 2019 || News analysis |
A motion from a Los Angeles councilmember is requesting the city attorney to prohibit the sale of all e-cigarettes and vaping devices in LA until they are approved by the US FDA ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 22nd October 2019 || News analysis |
Two UK professors of psychology have called for e-cigarette research to adopt "open science" practices to improve the standard of research and to prevent bias ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st October 2019 || News analysis |
Israel’s Ministry of Health is considering issuing an emergency regulation that would ban e-cigarettes in the country until parliament, the Knesset, discusses new legislation ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 18th October 2019 || News analysis |
A number of MPs from Germany’s ruling coalition have emphasised their willingness to reach agreement quickly on a federal ban on outdoor advertising of tobacco products ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th October 2019 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) has posted an 84.8% year-on-year increase in heated tobacco shipments in the third quarter of 2019 to nearly 16bn units, while its shipments of conventional cigarettes went down by 5.9% ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th October 2019 || News analysis |
A new bill that would regulate nicotine-containing products in Ukraine in line with the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) has been registered in the country’s parliament ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th October 2019 || News analysis |
The ban on flavoured nicotine e-cigarettes in Michigan has been put on hold after a judge issued an injunction barring governor Gretchen Whitmer from enforcing the prohibition until further notice ...
As Montenegro prepares to potentially join the EU we find that the country is already bringing its vaping regulations in line with the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th October 2019 || News analysis |
This graphic comes from the ECigIntelligence September 2019 Germany market report, where we learned that the country’s e-cig market growth has come from closed...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th October 2019 || News analysis |
E-cigs that don’t deliver enough nicotine may do more harm than good by encouraging the use of tobacco, according to a new US study. We report on this and other research into vaping prevalence and behaviour ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th October 2019 || News analysis |
Reynolds American has submitted a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for authorisation to continue marketing Vuse e-cigarettes in the US ...
In September, Michigan became the first US state to announce a ban on flavoured nicotine vaping products. This report provides further in-depth informaton about the current regulatory landscape in the state ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th October 2019 || News analysis |
Arizona governor Doug Ducey is holding out against the national trend towards banning flavoured vaping products, but backing a hard-hitting anti-vape campaign aimed at children ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th October 2019 || News analysis |
This graphic comes from the ECigIntelligence September 2019 Germany market report, where we learned that the country's e-cig market growth has come from closed...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th October 2019 || News analysis |
This graphic comes from the ECigIntelligence June 2019 Italy market report, in which we learned that the retail landscape in the country is dominated by independent...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th October 2019 || News analysis |
This graphic comes from the ECigIntelligence June 2019 Italy market report, in which we learned that the retail landscape in the country is dominated by independent...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th October 2019 || News analysis |
Faced with its first case of a vaping-related illness, Canada’s public health agency is calling on provincial authorities to report cases that could be linked to vaping and has set up a joint federal/provincial task group ...
With fear running high over the US outbreak of vaping-related lung illness, a number of states have leapt ahead of promised federal action to clamp down themselves on flavoured e-cigarette products ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 11th October 2019 || News analysis |
This graphic comes from the ECigIntelligence June 2019 Italy market report, in which we learned that the retail landscape in the country is dominated by independent...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 11th October 2019 || News analysis |
This graphic comes from the ECigIntelligence June 2019 survey of US head shops and smoke stores which revealed the popularity of open systems; we spoke to 148 stores across 13...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th October 2019 || News analysis |
The district court in the western German city of Düsseldorf has upheld a ruling temporarily banning Juul Labs from marketing its flavoured pods in the country ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th October 2019 || News analysis |
The use of Juul and other e-cigarettes has risen to “epidemic levels” among students in the US, yet there is a lack of awareness and response within schools, according to a new survey ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th October 2019 || News analysis |
Respiratory effects of e-cigs have been a concern since their introduction, but there is a consistent lack of evidence for any substantial harm – and despite perceptions, the current US lung illness outbreak doesn’t change that ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 8th October 2019 || News analysis |
Vape store owners in Greece could be given another six months to sell do-it-yourself (DIY) products, under a proposed new law drafted and published by the Ministry of Health ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th October 2019 || News analysis |
Oregon governor Kate Brown has issued an executive order prohibiting the sale of all flavoured vaping products in the state, “including those containing nicotine or THC” ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th October 2019 || News analysis |
Imperial Brands CEO Alison Cooper’s resignation is being seen as a catalyst – alongside challenging market conditions for tobacco, and regulatory changes in the US for next-generation products (NGP) – for uncertain times among Big Tobacco...