Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th February 2024 || News analysis |
A proposal to tax vapes and related devices in Argentina is considered a positive sign that the country may be considering formal regulation in the sector – even though the overall bill failed to pass this time around...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th February 2024 || News analysis |
Kazakhstan plans to impose a complete ban on the use of vaping products as well as their import, production and sale across the country. A vote by the Kazakh Senate still has to take place ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th February 2024 || News analysis |
In a UK parliamentary session, key figures voiced their concerns and positions just ahead of the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 5th February 2024 || News analysis |
Leaders of vaping associations in Latin America have told ECigIntelligence they anticipate further restrictions and reinforced regional bans on tobacco alternative products to result from this week's COP10 ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th January 2024 || News analysis |
Australian restrictions on the sale of vaping products are so severe as to constitute a de facto ban, according to a public health expert. It has now also banned the general sale of nicotine-free vapes ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th January 2024 || News analysis |
In light of the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, Italy has launched a pilot recycling programme, which is currently operational only in Rome and Milan, but plans are to eventually involve more than 60,000 points-of-sale ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 11th January 2024 || News analysis |
Canada’s vaping industry says it will fight the federal government’s plan to transfer the cost of Health Canada’s enforcement programme to manufacturers, saying it will make it difficult for many businesses to survive ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd January 2024 || News analysis |
E-cig and vape associations in Argentina, Mexico, Panama and other Latin American nations are hopeful that 2024 will bring eased restrictions and the lifting of bans that have complicated sales and consumption of tobacco alternatives ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th December 2023 || News analysis |
The Canadian government has tabled legislation for a tobacco cost-recovery system in a bid to recoup the money it spends each year on tobacco and vape...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th December 2023 || News analysis |
Rising costs – not increased domestic regulation – are the main reason for Chinese e-cig manufacturers to set up factories internationally. Surveys indicate three main reasons why companies are moving factories out of China ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th December 2023 || News analysis |
The recent election of president Javier Milei in Argentina is considered encouraging for the South American country’s e-cigarette and heated tobacco market, industry leaders told ECigIntelligence ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th December 2023 || News analysis |
New Zealand’s radical smoke-free plans look likely to fall victim to savings designed to fund tax cuts by the new government, who are looking to repeal amendments to the Smokefree Environments Act ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 1st December 2023 || News analysis |
The Slovenian government could use a shortened procedure to push through a draft bill that would limit the number of ingredients legally allowed in e-liquids to just 16 compounds ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd November 2023 || News analysis |
Vaping products will no longer be considered pharmaceutical products in Chile, following the passage of bill 12626-11 – with outlining regulations expected to be issued by May 2024 ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st November 2023 || News analysis |
Malaysia will press forward with its tobacco control plans in the hopes of providing a leadership role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ahead of what is hoped to be a rescheduled COP10 next year ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th November 2023 || News analysis |
The regulation of new and emerging e-cigarette, heated tobacco and nicotine products will be one of the central topics of discussion at the COP10-MOP3 conferences next year, said the head of the WHO FCTC ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 6th November 2023 || News analysis |
Canada’s health minister says he is deeply concerned by the rise in youth vaping and is actively working on plans to restrict flavoured vaping products ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 26th October 2023 || News analysis |
A coalition of centre-right, liberal, and left-wing forces is the most likely to form a new government in Poland before the end of the year, following elections held on 15th October ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 25th October 2023 || News analysis |
Njoy is taking market regulation into its own hands through a US federal lawsuit that accuses 34 manufacturers of illegally selling disposable flavoured vaping devices in California and under federal law ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th October 2023 || News analysis |
German politicians are at odds over whether – and how – to tackle taxation of e-cigarettes. Since the so-called “traffic light coalition” came to power, there have been calls to amend the current tax regulations ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th October 2023 || News analysis |
Some advertising of tobacco alternatives will likely be allowed to continue in Swiss print media, after legislators voted against a proposed complete ban and approved an SGK-S suggestion to amend proposed restrictions ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th October 2023 || News analysis |
The nearly 18m people of the Netherlands face uncertainty following the collapse of the government this summer. The Cabinet is currently overseeing the nation with a “caretaker” status until the 22nd November general election ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th October 2023 || News analysis |
Belgium has introduced an e-liquid excise duty that will come into force on 1st January 2024. It will target all nicotine-containing and nicotine-free e-liquids, irrespective of whether intended for use in e-cigs or as a refill ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 11th October 2023 || News analysis |
Panama’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit that claims the country’s 2022 e-cig and heated tobacco ban is unconstitutional – a move seen as a positive first step by tobacco harm reduction groups ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 6th October 2023 || News analysis |
The first in a series of debates on tobacco alternatives in Brazil has shown how opinion is slowly evolving. A public hearing on the regulatory status of ENDS was held on 28th September ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd October 2023 || News analysis |
Njoy has gone on the offensive in its patent battle with Juul Labs over Njoy’s Ace device and the Ace pods. The subsidiary of Altria Group recently filed an ITC complaint and a federal lawsuit ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd October 2023 || News analysis |
Esco Bar manufacturer Pastel Cartel is challenging the US FDA’s refusal to accept its premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) for more than 100 vaping devices ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 22nd September 2023 || News analysis |
The Canadian government has begun a legislative review of the country’s tobacco legislation, saying it wants to reduce the number of smokers nationwide ...
Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th September 2023 || News analysis |
The UK Department of Health and Social Care could soon set up a consultation on a possible disposal vape ban that has industry members divided, according to media reports ...
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Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th September 2023 || News analysis |
Suppliers of novel nicotine products to the Russian market face new licensing requirements and tax increases over several years as the government overhauls its regulatory system ...