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Chinese industry sets its own standards – and hopes government will follow

Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st May 2018 || News analysis |

A set of industry-designed standards could inform future national Chinese standards for e-cigarette products– said to be expected within 24 months ...

Tax cut due along with more laws: California regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st May 2018 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

In our latest look at California's regulations, we find that the wholesale tax is set to be adjusted in July and vaping is treated as tobacco in regards to public usage ...

Rival importers clash in court over German notification rules

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th May 2018 || News analysis |

Two major German e-cig importers and retailers, InnoCigs and Be Posh, are embroiled in a legal controversy over the notification requirements under the country’s version of the European TPD ...

German controversy highlights TPD notification requirements

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th May 2018 || Regulatory reports , Topic regulatory reports |

A legal controversy between two of Germany’s major e-cig importers and retailers over the notification requirements of the German version of the TPD could help to clear up a partly unresolved question about the regulation ...

CBD in Germany – the legal status of a new kind of e-liquid

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th May 2018 || Regulatory reports , Topic regulatory reports |

While no German or EU law currently regulates CBD-infused e-liquids directly, and CBD is not in itself illegal, companies wishing to market CBD for vaping have plenty of legal issues to consider ...

Romania: big on smoking, fertile ground for HnB, less so for e-cigs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th May 2018 || Country market reports , Market reports |

After early growth, the vaping population of Romania has levelled out at around 200,000, just over 4% of the smoking population – but the country is a prime testing ground for heated tobacco, with IQOS, Glo and iFuse...

UK vaping firm signs boxing sponsorship deal

Written by ECigIntelligence || 25th May 2018 || News analysis |

The trend for sports and vaping tie-ins appears to be continuing, as UK vaping firm Vaping Is Personal recently announced its sponsorship of middleweight boxer Tommy...

Nicotine-free, but Japanese vape stores bring in the enthusiasts

Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th May 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

Vape shops are springing up across Japan, attracting a mix of those wanting to quit smoking and gadget-loving hobbyists, despite a ban on nicotine e-liquid and the most developed heat-not-burn (HnB) sector in the world ...

India preparing for nationwide clampdown on nicotine vapes

Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th May 2018 || News analysis |

The government of India appears to be very close to taking action against nicotine e-cigarettes – “regulating, including banning, the manufacture, import, sale and any kind of trade in nicotine” or devices that enable its use ...

Salvini tells Italy’s biggest vape show new government will ease the burden

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd May 2018 || News analysis |

Lega leader Matteo Salvini, whose party is expected to take its place shortly in a new Italian government, reiterated in a message to Italy’s biggest vape show his pledge to reduce the tax burden and regulation on the...

Vaporized seals soccer deal with Rangers range of liquids

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd May 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

One of the UK’s largest vape store chains is teaming up with Scotland’s second biggest football club to launch a range of e-liquid flavours ...

Canada’s first nationwide vaping regulation all set to take effect

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd May 2018 || News analysis |

Canada’s first nationwide law regulating e-cigarettes and vaping products is expected to go into effect in coming days after Parliament voted to approve the new Tobacco and Vaping Products Act ...

Curbs on advertising are stifling innovation, says UK e-cig boss

Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th May 2018 || News analysis |

Technological innovation could help to further enliven an already buoyant British e-cigarette market but regulation is holding it back, according to the CEO of a major UK supplier ...

Rival HnB devices that use IQOS consumables available in Japan

Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th May 2018 || News analysis |

Japan’s advanced heated tobacco market and its ban on nicotine e-liquid are between them leading e-cigarette manufacturers to launch their own HnB devices – many compatible with the Heets made for market leader IQOS ...

A picture of e-cig pricing in the UK

Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th May 2018 || Market reports , Topic market reports |

ECigIntelligence looks at the pricing and products range in e-liquids and hardware categories across the top five e-cigarette retailer websites in the UK and finds a shift towards advanced hardware products ...

E-liquids that look like food ‘should be reported to UK Trading Standards’

Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th May 2018 || News analysis |

The UK health department is urging people to report companies to their local trading standards team if they manufacture, sell, or distribute e-liquids which may appeal to children through resemblance to food items ...

Collapse of UK distributor ‘had little impact’ on e-cig retail

Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th May 2018 || News analysis |

Major companies that distributed electronic cigarettes and e-liquids through Palmer & Harvey claimed they were not unduly affected after the distributor collapsed last year because they had contingency plans ...

Poland continues to tighten its grip on e-cig regulation

Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th May 2018 || News analysis |

Poland continues to tighten its grip on the e-cigarette industry, as a new bill proposes that new products will have to be approved by a Polish government agency before being launched on the domestic...

Rules are strictly enforced: Austria regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th May 2018 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

In our latest look at the regulations in Austria, we see that Austrian legislation regulates both nicotine-free and nicotine-containing products, going further than the TPD ...

Native American tribes try the vaping trade – but some have reservations

Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th May 2018 || News analysis |

A few Native American tribes are moving into the e-cig business, some buoyed by tax advantages – while others remain sceptical at best. Among those moving into the vapour trade are the Meskwaki tribe of Iowa and Nebraska’s...

Anything goes in New Zealand vape ads – at least until legalisation

Written by ECigIntelligence || 8th May 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

Ethics, health and humour are three of the most popular ways e-cigarette companies are trying to market their brands in New Zealand, as the promise of legalisation brings with it the threat of regulation to come ...

Vape fair exhibitors urged to check their liquids and labels are legal

Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th May 2018 || News analysis |

Exhibitors at Germany’s biggest vape fair, this weekend’s Hall of Vape event in Stuttgart, have been advised to check carefully that their e-liquids are labelled correctly in accordance with national and European law ...

FDA guides on product labelling: US regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd May 2018 || Regulatory reports , Topic regulatory reports |

In this latest report on American regulations, ECigIntelligence highlights the fact that all electronic vaping devices will have to comply with FDA label requirements from August 2018 ...

Rise in products available online: Italy market report

Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd May 2018 || Market reports , Topic market reports |

In our latest look at the Italian market, ECigIntelligence has studied the latest prices and range of products for hardware products online and compared them with Q4 of 2017 ...

Bid for e-cig law collapses as Mexico heads for change of government

Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th April 2018 || News analysis |

Mexico’s parliament is running out of time to address the issue of e-cigarettes in this legislative session, after missing the scheduled date for discussion of a controversial new bill ...

Colombian health ministry calls for IQOS to be treated like combustibles

Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th April 2018 || News analysis |

Colombia’s health and finance ministries have moved to force heated tobacco products such as IQOS to comply with the country’s tobacco law, arguing there is no evidence to suggest that they present any lower risk than cigarettes ...

Counterfeit gorillas, disputed racers in China’s battlefield of fakes

Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th April 2018 || News analysis |

Amid the haze of vape fog shrouding the four packed halls of the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre, disputes simmered at China’s foremost vape exhibition over alleged trademark violations and cloned e-liquids ...

China expo highlights the speed of the shift towards closed systems

Written by ECigIntelligence || 27th April 2018 || News analysis |

The nature of closed-system pods is changing fast and if the current generation of large-sized mod systems is relegated primarily to hobbyists, could this be the death knell for vape stores in China? ...

Six key markets: online hardware in the US, UK, Russia, France, Germany and Italy

Written by ECigIntelligence || 25th April 2018 || Market reports , Topic market reports |

ECigIntelligence presents cross-country analysis of Q4 2017 for the hardware categories, covering all the basic and advanced starter kits, mods, tanks and rebuildable atomisers (RBAs) ...

Philip Morris set to appeal against Lithuanian ban on advertising IQOS

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd April 2018 || News analysis |

A Philip Morris subsidiary has been fined for breaking Lithuanian tobacco advertising laws with an IQOS campaign in a decision that may have implications for wider European heated-tobacco promotion ...

Creativity and controversy – how PMI spreads the word about IQOS

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd April 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

Promotional activity of various kinds, some of it highly creative, has helped PMI expand the global market share for IQOS – but not without a share of controversy ...

Phillips addresses vaping industry events in London and Atlanta

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd April 2018 || News analysis |

ECigIntelligence managing director Tim Phillips addressed the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) Forum in London on Monday 23rd April, the first of three vaping industry events this week in which we will be taking part ...

Focus is on minors: Atlanta and Georgia regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th April 2018 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

ECigIntelligence looks at regulation in Georgia and Atlanta and finds it is and mainly focused on preventing minors from accessing the products ...

Heated tobacco gaining ground: special market report

Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th April 2018 || Market reports , Topic market reports |

In this special report, ECigIntelligence looks at how heated tobacco (heat-not-burn) and hybrid products are gaining ground in the world’s tobacco and vapour market ...

Aussie senator threatens to block new health laws until vaping is legalised

Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th April 2018 || News analysis |

The Australian government is facing growing dissent on a number of fronts to its continuing ban on nicotine-containing e-cigarettes. And one federal senator has vowed to block all government health legislation until the ban is dropped ...

Vape show reveals mixed feelings on Japan’s market future

Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th April 2018 || News analysis |

Opinions on the future of the Japanese e-cigarette market at the country’s first vape sector tradeshow were mixed, with some optimism despite the continuing ban on nicotine e-liquid and the dramatic success of HnB products ...

Mexican heart foundation says PMI should have been barred from forum

Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th April 2018 || News analysis |

A prominent tobacco control group has accused Mexico’s health regulators of colluding with Philip Morris International (PMI) by allowing the tobacco giant to take part in a public forum on harm reduction ...

Mexican government accused of deliberately delaying legalising e-cigs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th April 2018 || News analysis |

The Mexican government has been accused of deliberately delaying the legalisation of e-cigarettes after four bills designed to remove them from the current legal grey area were presented to a legislative committee ...

New court-ordered ban highlights legal complexities in India

Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th April 2018 || News analysis |

A new court order reinforcing e-cigarette bans in the Indian states of Haryana and Punjab underlines the complexity of enforcement in a country where restrictions on vapour products have been slowly accumulating for...

Korean web of taxes brings HnB price in line with combustible cigarettes

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd April 2018 || Regulatory reports , Topic regulatory reports |

Regulators in South Korea have enacted new taxes on heat-not-burn (HnB) tobacco products, apparently building on previous government moves to bring prices closer in line with those of conventional cigarettes ...

Australia divided as committee dissenter pleads: ‘Just legalise vaping’

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd April 2018 || News analysis |

A long-awaited parliamentary report into the legalisation of e-cigarettes has delivered both an official blow and an accompanying glimmer of hope for vaping businesses in Australia ...

Norway heading towards legal nicotine vapes

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th March 2018 || News analysis |

E-cigarettes with nicotine will become legal this year in Norway, where the sale of all nicotine-containing products other than traditional tobacco products has been banned since 1989 ...

US women and younger men prefer to buy their devices in person

Written by ECigIntelligence || 26th March 2018 || News analysis |

More than a third of US vapers buy their devices exclusively over the counter in vape stores – even though it’s cheaper to buy the same products online ...

The boxing game – have you got the bottle to get your brand noticed?

Written by ECigIntelligence || 26th March 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

Across the e-liquid industry, brands are finding enterprising ways to swap the standard glass bottle and cardboard box for something that makes them stand out while also sometimes adding to their brand story ...

Advanced devices dominate Greece: consumer survey

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd March 2018 || Market reports , Topic market reports |

ECigIntelligence’s latest online survey of the Greek e-cigarette market found advanced devices dominate, with a high proportion of respondents mixing their own e-liquids ...

Six key markets: online e-liquid prices in the US, Russia and Europe

Written by ECigIntelligence || 22nd March 2018 || Market reports , Topic market reports |

This report on e-liquids is the first in a series tracking the online pricing of e-cigarette products in six key markets: France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the UK and...

What’s in a brand? How to stand out as more than just flavour of the month

Written by ECigIntelligence || 22nd March 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

How does one brand of e-liquid stand out from the crowd? ECigIntelligence talks to the owners and creators of some of the more successful brands to learn some of their marketing secrets ...

Italy vape store survey: uncertainty growing but stores still optimistic

Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st March 2018 || Market reports , Topic market reports |

The latest ECigIntelligence survey reveals Italian vape stores think the new regulatory framework will have a negative impact on their business, but they remain optimistic ...

Greece takes protective stance, letting cross-border sales out but not in

Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th March 2018 || News analysis |

Selling vaping products cross-border from Greece to other EU member states is allowed – provided that country does not prohibit such sales – but no legal trade can come the other way ...

Vape stores booming as chains spread across the UK

Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th March 2018 || Marketing & retailing |

With almost half of all e-cigarette sales in the UK coming from high street vape stores, it’s clear that the country has one of the most well-developed over-the-counter markets in the world ...

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