Written by Freddie Dawson || 11th March 2024 || News analysis |
Although the new proposed UK vaping tax may achieve its aim of making vaping products unaffordable for some, there are concerns that it will also impact on their ability to work as smoking-cessation tools ...
UK vapers have been asked to support a new e-petition to demonstrate the level of opposition to a flavour ban, and it has so far garnered 40,000 signatures and counting ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th March 2024 || News analysis |
New data shows the UK vape shop scene is still thriving, despite increasingly negative rhetoric around the potential public health impact of vaping ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th February 2024 || News analysis |
UK Trading Standards officials welcomed new measures to increase funding and allow for higher on-the-spot fines to be issued for illicit vape sales, but industry members say efforts could fail without laws behind them ...
It’s clear from recently released company financial results that the proposed ban on disposable e-cigarettes in the UK is not expected to have much of an impact in the short term ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th February 2024 || News analysis |
An influential European Union report, “Beating Cancer Inequalities in the EU”, has taken a cautious, generally pessimistic view on tobacco alternatives ...
Not enough countries collect data on e-cigarette usage and it's necessary to improve this to better monitor reduction in tobacco use, says the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd January 2024 || News analysis |
Further regulatory restrictions on e-cigarettes are expected, but these will not prevent the global vaping market from continuing to grow in 2024, ECigIntelligence predicts ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th December 2023 || News analysis |
“Disposables” was the word in vaping in 2023: although they had been building steam prior to this year, it was 2023 that saw multiple elements reach a crescendo ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st December 2023 || News analysis |
Smoore, a Chinese vaping technology company, has said it will not work with brands that use flavour names, packaging or product designs that could be construed as attractive to children ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th December 2023 || News analysis |
Haypp Group, an online retailer of reduced-risk products, will look to expand into new categories and European markets following the success of a vaping pilot in the UK ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 1st December 2023 || News analysis |
A lack of information on how to recycle vaping products has led to a marketing campaign by Elf Bar running afoul of the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority following accusations of greenwashing ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 24th November 2023 || News analysis |
Another week, another round of vaping-related posts on TikTok being criticised by the UK Advertising Standards Authority, this time around, against posts by an e-cig company and an influencer ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th November 2023 || News analysis |
Two more companies have ignored queries from the UK ASA on the appropriateness of nicotine-containing e-cigarette ads on social media platform TikTok ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th November 2023 || Blogs |
The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World has ended its relationship with Philip Morris International, bringing to a close one of the tobacco company’s many efforts to distance itself from its own best-selling products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th November 2023 || News analysis |
King Charles said in the king’s speech that the UK parliament will try to push through its plan to prevent those born on or after 1st January 2009 from buying cigarettes ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th November 2023 || News analysis |
The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) has severed its connection with tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI) and will soon change its name, its new CEO Cliff Douglas has announced ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th October 2023 || News analysis |
E-cigarette companies in the UK cannot publish promotional material such as discount codes on private servers on the social media platform Discord – even if the content is accessible only to those actively seeking it ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th October 2023 || News analysis |
The north of England has the country’s highest level of success in quitting smoking, despite being severely underserved by cessation services, according to a new analysis of quitters who self-reported sucess to the NHS ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th October 2023 || News analysis |
Future innovation in vaping and tobacco alternatives is likely to involve environmental improvements and prevention of youth usage, said speakers at the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th October 2023 || News analysis |
Public pressure can drive legislators to make populist decisions on nicotine product regulation that are not based on evidence, warned speakers at the recent Global Tobacco & Nicotine Forum (GTNF) in Seoul ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th September 2023 || News analysis |
A new industry association, the Global Vape Alliance, brings together major international vaping bodies to globally unify industry responses to issues facing the vaping sector ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st July 2023 || News analysis |
Flavour advice in combination with regular supportive text messages has been shown to be the most effective method for helping people remotely to quit smoking using vaping, a new study has found ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd July 2023 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products has published milestones to expect as it continues to address issues brought up by the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s recent report ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th June 2023 || News analysis |
Research into how New Zealanders can stop vaping will receive part of a NZD53.7m (USD32.6m) government funding allocation for research into pressing health issues ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th June 2023 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to 189 retailers as part of its efforts to police sales of disposable vapes. It has also highlighted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th June 2023 || News analysis |
Ireland is holding a public consultation on disposable vaping devices that will determine the future of the products in the country. All responses will be considered and used to inform the next steps of policy-making ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th June 2023 || News analysis |
Ireland’s Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill, which would make it illegal to sell vaping products to under-18s, among other provisions, is in the window to be debated in Parliament ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th June 2023 || Blogs |
It’s surprising the loopholes lawmakers can miss when writing, debating and passing bills. Or is it? With allegations that politicians don’t even read bills they vote on and of proposals copying vested interest submissions verbatim ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 6th June 2023 || News analysis |
It will soon be illegal to sell e-cigarette products to under-18s in Ireland after ministers received government approval to bring forward a bill containing a wide range of measures on smoking and vaping ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 1st June 2023 || News analysis |
Action against disposable e-cigarettes continues in the US, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issuing warning letters to 30 retailers over sales of the popular Puff and Hyde brands ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th May 2023 || News analysis |
A raft of new measures to crack down on a rise in youth vaping has been announced by the UK government, including a ban on the distribution of free samples to under-18s ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th May 2023 || News analysis |
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has confirmed that commercially associated vaping posts should not appear on the social media site TikTok ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th May 2023 || News analysis |
Tobacco companies are not doing enough to transition to reduced risk products and are not phasing out conventional cigarettes quickly enough, according to the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th April 2023 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International will scale back and partially outsource its vaping business, instead focusing on other tobacco alternatives that can help it become a majority smoke-free revenue company by 2025 ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd March 2023 || News analysis |
Companies dealing in e-cigarette products must be extremely careful with all age-related details when it comes to website illustrations and endorsements, a new UK ruling against a heated tobacco company demonstrates ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th March 2023 || News analysis |
Reports that Elf Bar has been the subject of a mandatory recall of its UK products that did not meet regulations are false – but so are suggestions that the vapes can still be sold ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th January 2023 || Blogs |
ECigIntelligence predicted a year ago that increasing restrictions and taxes on vaping products would drive more users to other tobacco alternatives in 2022. And it does appear that this has been the case ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th December 2022 || News analysis |
Excise duties on cigarettes in Italy will increase from 1st January, while those on heated tobacco and e-liquids will not rise at the rate previously laid out, under the new Italian government’s 2023 Budget Bill. The newly formed right-wing coalition...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th November 2022 || News analysis |
Domestic tax provisions and tightened regulations have led to Chinese e-cigarette brands looking to new international markets as higher prices and flavour limits mean fewer vapers at home, according to experts ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th November 2022 || News analysis |
China’s new e-cigarette tax should not prove too heavy an administrative burden, according to experts. But it remains unclear what impact new regulations brought in earlier this year will have on the domestic market ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th July 2022 || News analysis |
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Robert Califf has authorised an external review of the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), citing a “series of challenges that have...stressed the agency’s operations” ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th July 2022 || News analysis |
Public health in the North of England continues to be ignored in favour of supporting more affluent and Tory-leaning areas in the South and Midlands, according to a new survey ...