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 ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th June 2022 || News analysis |
Efforts to increase recycling of vaping products have been stymied by unintended consequences of unrelated regulations as well as a lack of consumer interest ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd June 2022 || News analysis |
Next-generation tobacco products such as e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco alternatives are not the solution to damage caused by the tobacco industry to both public health and the environment, according to speakers at a World Health Organization (WHO) conference...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th May 2022 || News analysis |
RJ Reynolds has received a second round of authorisations for devices and cartridges from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Vuse vaping brand ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEUS vape store revenue and customer confidence rising, despite Covid and health scares US vape stores’ typical revenue increased nearly 15% in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to new research from ECigIntelligence. In...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 31st January 2022 || News analysis |
Consumers will continue to increasingly spread usage out over different alternative nicotine products, partly driven by further, stricter vaping regulation across the globe throughout 2022, ECigIntelligence predicts ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 1st April 2020 || News analysis |
With president Donald Trump announcing social distancing and other measures being extended until the end of April it seems unlikely many US state legislatures will choose to end their adjournments soon ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th May 2019 || News analysis |
Charlie’s Chalk Dust, one of the best known American e-liquid brands, has announced its entry into the CBD sector following its acquisition by a drinks company with CBD interests ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th September 2018 || News analysis |
Four companies have been chosen to provide the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) with e-cigarettes and e-liquids in closed pods. Prisoners will be offered free vaping starter kits from late September ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th September 2018 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) has been criticised in local and national government circles for attempting to win contracts with local smoking cessation services in the UK ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th September 2018 || News analysis |
Malaysian manufacturers of e-liquids are now required to adhere to new labelling guidelines. At present, the rules apply only to non-nicotine liquids – but there are hopes they may be the first step towards wider regulation ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th September 2018 || News analysis |
In a patent appeal case that could have wide implications for the e-cig industry, Fontem Ventures has scored a significant victory in one of its ongoing intellectual property disputes with RJ Reynolds ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 24th August 2018 || News analysis |
The UK treasury has confirmed that it has “no current plans” to introduce a tax on vaping products, despite reports in some media that taxation was being prepared to help prop up the ailing NHS ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st August 2018 || News analysis |
The Philippines could be set to take a liberal stance on e-cigarettes after the House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution urging the Philippine Department of Health to focus on e-cigarettes to aid smoking cessation ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th August 2018 || News analysis |
Conclusions and recommendations from the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee investigation into e-cigarettes have confirmed yet again the UK’s status as the most vape-friendly major market ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th July 2018 || News analysis |
Members of the e-cigarette industry in South Africa and India, or looking to do business in those countries, have been urged to submit comments to the various bodies preparing legislation there ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th July 2018 || News analysis |
The initial round of trade tariffs imposed on China by the Trump administration is not expected to have much impact on the vapour industry – but a forthcoming second round could specifically include vaping products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th July 2018 || News analysis |
Heated-tobacco products are to receive their own taxation category and rate in the UK. A rate and commencement date for the duty on tobacco consumables for heat-not-burn (HnB) products will be announced in the autumn budget ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th July 2018 || News analysis |
The full implementation of a 57% tax on e-liquid in Indonesia has been delayed until 1st October 2018. The tax was originally scheduled to come into force on 1st July ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th July 2018 || News analysis |
A new heated-tobacco device which uses PMI’s tobacco consumables Heets will be officially launched on the Japanese market later this month by Jouz, a new independent company ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th June 2018 || News analysis |
The Scottish government will consult on a range of new regulations for reduced-risk products, including further restrictions on e-cig advertising, banning some flavours in Hnb products, and banning their public use ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th June 2018 || News analysis |
Hong Kong plans to regulate HnB products in the same way as conventional cigarettes, lifting a rarely-enforced ban. But the current heavy restrictions on nicotine-containing e-cigarettes will remain ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th June 2018 || News analysis |
The Independent British Vape Trade Association (IBVTA) says its members are losing business to companies selling illegal products – while in Ireland official inspections found a low level of compliance with regulations ...
A vaping versus pharma fight over advertising has emerged in evidence being given to the UK government, with Johnson & Johnson for Big Pharma taking on the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st May 2018 || News analysis |
E-cigarettes now make up more than a third of net sales for US tobacco products supplier Turning Point Brands (TPB) – and are likely to account for an even larger proportion soon following the recent acquisition of Vapor...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th May 2018 || News analysis |
British e-cig maker Njoy Innovations is ready to produce a medically licensed e-cigarette, according to evidence supplied to a group of UK members of parliament...