Pax Labs will ensure all future advertising campaigns feature models that look more than 30 after hearing feedback from its first Juul e-cigarette campaign....
Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th August 2015 || News analysis |
Malaysia is expected to unveil proposals for regulating e-cigarettes in the next couple months. It is thought that the country will encourage its growing e-cigarette industry, and not impose a ban like some of its southeast Asian neighbours....
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the full list of regulatory reports, or the advanced search page. Executive summary E-cigarettes are not currently regulated in Cyprus but they are subject to...
Russia has a developing e-cigarette market with a strong cigalike presence, but it lacks strict tobacco controls. This has had an impact on its early development....
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd July 2015 || News analysis |
Organisers and visitors at a New Jersey e-cigarette expo face fines totalling $50,000 for vaping indoors, following the event management’s apparent misunderstanding of the state’s laws on e-cig use in public...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th July 2015 || News analysis |
Members of the British parliament plan to contest a ban on vaping within the halls of the Palace of Westminster, the famous London complex where they...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th July 2015 || News analysis |
A Florida cancer research centre has been given $3.6m (€3.3m) for a long-running study of how e-cigarettes are used by consumers and whether they help vapers quit...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 6th July 2015 || News analysis |
U.S. e-cig maker Pax Labs has secured $46.7m (€42.3m) in funding, which it will use to finance expansion plans including increased availability of its products and a new advertising...
European consumers see TV ads for e-cigarettes nearly as often as point-of-sale promotions, but there is a significant divide between east and west in terms of frequency and impact, according to a new...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 29th June 2015 || News analysis |
Awareness and use of e-cigarettes in the EU continues to grow, leading to a 10% success rate amongst users attempting to quit conventional tobacco. But health concerns are increasing...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd June 2015 || News analysis |
E-cigs will soon be prohibited from being carried inside checked-in baggage destined for the cargo hold of airplanes, as a UN agency modifies guidance to include the devices on the dangerous goods list....
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd June 2015 || News analysis |
The British parliament has banned vaping in the corridors of power. But parliamentary groups discussing e-cigarettes are still going strong and planning their strategies....
Written by Freddie Dawson || 1st June 2015 || News analysis |
Portugal’s taxation policy on e-cigarettes has kept the market relatively small – and its full impact has not yet been felt by vapers or companies in the sector, according to research from...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th May 2015 || News analysis |
The Lorillard-Reynolds American merger has finally been passed by Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It still needs to undergo a public vote before being finally approved....
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th May 2015 || News analysis |
The academics behind a controversial study of formaldehyde levels in e-cigarettes have said that they are not opposed to the products, but are still prepared to defend their work despite criticism that it created unrealistic fears over e-cig...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th May 2015 || News analysis |
The Scottish government plans to add a registration process for e-cigarette sellers, as well as a formal ban on sales to under-18s, to its health bill due to be introduced later this...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th May 2015 || News analysis |
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an e-cigarette TV ad for “indirectly promoting the use of tobacco products” through being...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd April 2015 || News analysis |
Big Tobacco’s e-cigarette operations are significantly better than independents at implementing Website and sales restrictions on young people, according to a new...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th April 2015 || News analysis |
A new study has downplayed concerns about youth e-cigarette use in the UK and even suggested that some minors may be using e-cigs in attempts to give up...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th April 2015 || News analysis |
New data from the U.S. National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is being used in support of two contrasting arguments, for and against e-cigarettes. But could both sides be partly...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th April 2015 || News analysis |
The lack of long-term scientific studies into e-cigarettes is a common complaint. But the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (CTRI) is now starting to address that through a multi-year investigation of e-cigs’ health effects,...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 31st March 2015 || News analysis |
A new British study on youth vaping has caused sensationalist headlines with its comparisons of the demographics, tobacco use and alcohol use of 14-to-17-year-olds who reported using or purchasing an...
A new advertising campaign from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has sent shock waves through the e-cigarette sector, with many claiming it demonstrates official bias against the products. But is that a fair reading...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th March 2015 || News analysis |
Approval of an e-cigarette by a medical licensing body could have even more impact on the sector than the much-discussed EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) implementation, according to Nerudia, a consultancy and nicotine science...
Vaping in TV commercials may increase smokers’ urge to reach for a cigarette and decrease optimism among those that quit tobacco, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th March 2015 || News analysis |
Imperial Tobacco’s Fontem Ventures does not plan to create a nicotine oral strip similar to Nicoccino’s, despite launching a new brand of caffeinated strip called...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th March 2015 || News analysis |
While delegates to this week’s World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi presumably must decide which of the title’s categories e-cigarettes fall into, those who’ve missed it have another choice to make: just how many of...