Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th May 2018 || News analysis |
Supreme, the company behind the 88Vape and Kik e-cigarette brands, has shelved its plan to float on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) stock exchange ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th May 2018 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) are both planning further investment in reduced-risk products following successful Japanese launches ...
In another media coup for British American Tobacco (BAT) and its subsidiary VIP, a light-hearted survey of vaper flavour wish lists has been making the news rounds. And it turns out Brits just love their roast dinners ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th May 2018 || News analysis |
A number of Irish senators have started to take notice of e-cigarettes – with very mixed reactions. While some have called for vaping to be encouraged as an aid to smoking cessation, others want it banned in public...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th May 2018 || News analysis |
Vape Dinner Lady has agreed a national rollout with UK supermarket Asda for the most popular items in its e-liquid range and the company is trialling a dedicated shelving unit for further additions ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd May 2018 || News analysis |
Supreme – the company behind the UK e-cigarette brands KiK and 88Vape – says its flotation on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market) stock exchange in London should go ahead in the next few days ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th April 2018 || News analysis |
The UK government is keeping an eye on the advertising of heated tobacco products such as IQOS, while defending reduced budgets for its own smoking cessation advertising ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th April 2018 || News analysis |
So-called “short-fill” products have not affected the number of nicotine-containing e-liquids being notified in the UK, according to an expert from the agency in charge ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 29th March 2018 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) has won the right to sell and market heat-not-burn Heets sticks in New Zealand in a surprise legal ruling against the Ministry of Health ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th March 2018 || News analysis |
Public health experts sought to reassure UK lawmakers that e-cigarettes did not pose a threat to the health of young people when they revealed the results of a survey showing just 4% of youngsters had taken up vaping,...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd March 2018 || News analysis |
Language changing the “grandfathering date” for vaping products has been dropped from the US Appropriations Bill as the government hurries again to avoid another shutdown ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd March 2018 || News analysis |
A vaping awareness and education campaign has been launched by the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA). VApril, which will take place over the month of April, aims to convince smokers to switch ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 1st March 2018 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) has announced it will invest half the money it has saved from US corporate tax restructuring in next generation products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd February 2018 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco claims to be the largest reduced-risk product company in the world following its acquisition of Reynolds American and says it will build on this through a variety of HnB, moist tobacco and oral tobacco brands...
A new study has found that found that a closer relationship with health professionals could lead to an increase in business – despite both staff and customers not considering smoking cessation as the main role of a vape...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th February 2018 || News analysis |
Reduced-risk products have severely impacted sales of conventional cigarettes in Japan, according to Japan Tobacco. The firm says the total value of cigarette sales fell by 12.5% in 2017 ...
A new website aiming to break into the British e-cigarette market with express deliveries has reached the halfway point in its crowd-funding round with under a month to go. Clouder – a UK-based third-party online aggregator for vape...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th November 2017 || News analysis |
The British Medical Association – the doctors’ trade union – has dropped its opposition to e-cigarettes and urged its members to recommend vaping as a means to quit smoking ...
An e-cig company could be selling the best item available in a category but if it is selling it through the wrong retail channel, it is likely to lose out, according to industry experts ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th November 2017 || News analysis |
New meta-analyses showing e-cigarettes as positive tools for smoking cessation are lacking – and that comes down to just one person in one controlled trial, according to an expert on health research ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th November 2017 || News analysis |
The head of Britain’s committee looking into the science behind e-cigarettes has confirmed his personal sympathy with vaping but maintains that he must focus on evidence and...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th November 2017 || News analysis |
Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, the controversial research endowment fund initially endowed for $1bn by Philip Morris International (PMI), has committed to instituting “almost all” good-governance suggestions put to it by harm reduction...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd November 2017 || News analysis |
The increasingly popular practice of “shake and vape” poses a threat to the e-cigarette industry, according to speakers and delegates at a recent conference ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st November 2017 || News analysis |
Complex desserts in a shake and vape format will come to the fore next year according to experts at the Next Generation Nicotine Delivery Conference in London ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th November 2017 || News analysis |
The biggest tobacco company in South Korea, KT&G, has launched its own heat-not-burn (HnB) device into the rapidly expanding tobacco alternatives market in the country, where it will compete with PMI’s IQOS and BAT’s Glo ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 6th November 2017 || News analysis |
The UK government is being urged by both an all-party parliamentary lobby group and the British Psychological Society to keep promoting e-cigs as a means to stop smoking ...
The British government will not review permitted formats for e-cigarette advertising any time soon – but it will review the potential toxicity of Heat-not-Burn (HnB) tobacco products, a junior minister told concerned MPs ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd November 2017 || News analysis |
Imperial Brands has acquired innovation and expertise in the vaping field with the purchase of Nerudia, a UK e-cigarette consultancy and e-liquid manufacturer ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th October 2017 || News analysis |
Heated tobacco continues to take up a greater and greater share of the total world tobacco market, according to new figures from Philip Morris International (PMI) outlining the success of its IQOS device ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th October 2017 || News analysis |
A UK parliament backbench debate on the new tobacco control plan acknowledged the role e-cigarettes have played, and will continue to play, but did little to address the concerns of some industry stakeholders....
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th October 2017 || News analysis |
New endorsements from public bodies in the UK could move e-cigarettes a step closer to being offered on prescription by NHS doctors as aids to quitting smoking ...
A ruling by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority calls into question the line between fact and promotion when it comes to the fonts used on websites ...
A major UK distributor of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, is to be kept afloat through loans from JTI and Imperial as it seeks to finalise its own acquisition ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd October 2017 || News analysis |
Enovap, an innovative French hardware manufacturer, has announced plans to move into the US market, where it hopes to apply its technology to medicinal cannabis use ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th September 2017 || News analysis |
The UK bodies in charge of advertising regulatory code have put forward a yes/no consultation on proposals to loosen restrictions on e-cigarette health claims in advertisements....
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th September 2017 || News analysis |
A new bill to liberate e-cigarettes in Britain from the EU TPD has been proposed by MP Christopher Chope, but questions remain over its seriousness. Still, the industry welcomes the opportunity for law-makers to debate the issue....
Written by Freddie Dawson || 5th September 2017 || News analysis |
Malaysian e-liquid manufacturers are looking at the European Union and other markets as regulatory uncertainty bites at home – but only the bigger players can afford the costs involved ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th August 2017 || News analysis |
The World Health Organization says governments should consider banning vaping indoors but use other strategies, such as high taxes on cigarettes, to encourage smokers to switch ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th August 2017 || News analysis |
The Scottish Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has announced a review of evidence on e-cigarettes that could lead to a softening of its professional advice on vaping products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd August 2017 || News analysis |
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has provided further clarity on what is and is not permitted in print media e-cigarette advertising with a ruling against a magazine ad for a vape store ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th August 2017 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched its Glo device in South Korea, joining Philip Morris International (PMI)'s iQOS in what could be a lively market for heated tobacco products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th August 2017 || News analysis |
New Zealand is to introduce an amendment to existing laws that will enable the legal introduction of alternative tobacco products such as snus and heat-not-burn devices ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 31st July 2017 || News analysis |
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), appeared on Friday to go further than any federal official – or most politicians – previously had in supporting alternative nicotine products for harm...
Logic has eaten E-Lites as parent company JT creates one unified global brand; but is it the right decision to put all your e-cig eggs in one branding basket? ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th July 2017 || News analysis |
UK Department of Health wants e-cigs excluded from smoke-free policies, a clear path to medical licensing – and maybe even a review of Britain’s TPD...