Freddie Dawson, Author at ECigIntelligence

French manufacturer expands into U.S. despite regulatory fears

Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th July 2016 || News analysis |

French e-liquid manufacturer Gaïatrend has strengthened its U.S. presence despite the uncertainty brought about by the FDA’s deeming regulations, and is confident they will be amended via one legal route or...

E-cigs on Twitter: negative sentiment versus enthusiastic bots

Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st July 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

A new study has found that Twitter messages have grown more negative in outlook over time and that a significant amount of the content is automatically generated....

Vape stores should be made to register, U.S. academics argue

Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th July 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

A new study from North Dakota says few vape stores comply with the state’s public vaping laws....

UK government to consult on taxing heat-not-burn products

Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th July 2016 || News analysis |

The UK will launch a consultation on taxation for heat-not-burn products later this year....

Singapore convicts and fines three e-cigarette sellers

Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th July 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Three Singaporean e-cig retailers have been fined for attempting to import and sell e-cig hardware in the country....

Major Chinese trade association opts to join VTA in U.S.

Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th July 2016 || News analysis |

The American arm of a major Chinese e-cigarette coalition has chosen to join the Vapor Technology Association...

No summer break for FDA’s lawyers as deeming cases mount up

Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th July 2016 || News analysis |

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this summer faces a welter of lawsuits against its deeming regulations, all of which have some features in common but also employ slightly different strategies in attacking the new rules for...

House of Lords decides not to censure UK’s TPD transposition

Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th July 2016 || News analysis |

A motion to record grievances over the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and its UK implementation failed in the British House of Lords....

Brexit: call for UK to reverse ban on e-cig advertising

Written by Freddie Dawson || 1st July 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

The Advertising Association in the UK has called for bans on e-cigarette advertising in various media to be lifted, while the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found no problem with an advertisement in the recent “Just you and Blu”...

Some vapers jubilant over Brexit, but UK businesses not so sure

Written by Freddie Dawson || 29th June 2016 || News analysis |

British e-cigarette businesses have reacted cautiously to the UK referendum vote in favour of leaving the European Union, although some users have seen it as a triumph for...

Cabrera steps down from SFATA; no successor yet named

Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th June 2016 || News analysis |

Cynthia Cabrera is stepping down as executive director, CEO and president of the Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Association...

Scottish-themed e-liquid is vivid orange, and not made from girders

Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th June 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

A new e-liquid flavour is targeting one of the narrowest niches yet addressed by the e-cigarette industry: fans of the Scottish soft drink...

British Medical Association calls for public vaping ban

Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd June 2016 || News analysis |

The British Medical Association is going against the trend of UK professional medical bodies and sticking to a more sceptical line on e-cigarettes, backing a public vaping...

UK and U.S. studies report opposite findings on gateway effect

Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd June 2016 || News analysis |

Two new studies have reached profoundly different conclusions on the relationship between e-cig usage by young people and their take-up up of conventional tobacco – differences that may be partially explained by one coming from the U.S. and...

British TV switched off, but Blu’s cattle herder keeps going

Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd June 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Last month’s e-cigarette commercials on British TV as part of Blu’s “Just you and Blu” campaign will probably prove to be the last ever in the country, but the Imperial Brands subsidiary is continuing with advertising in...

Australian watchdog takes retailers to court over safety claims

Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st June 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Two e-cigarette retailers face Australian court proceedings after the country’s consumer watchdog filed charges alleging they had made false and misleading claims about the safety of their...

All UK “lite” brands will have to change their names

Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th June 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

All British e-cigarette brands marketed as “lite” will have to change their names in order to comply with the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), at an estimated cost of £23m (€30m,...

Study: British youth do not perceive e-cigs as linked to tobacco

Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th June 2016 || News analysis |

Young vapers in the UK do not see e-cigarettes primarily as substitutes for conventional tobacco products and are attracted to them for different reasons, according to a new...

Deeming regulations: many vapers ignorant, majority blissful

Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th June 2016 || News analysis |

The majority of American vapers were unaware of the new deeming regulations for e-cigarettes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until they were published last month – and many may remain so, a new survey seems...

Altria praised for handling of Green Smoke product recall

Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th June 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Altria subsidiary Nu Mark has successfully launched a recall for some of its Green Smoke chargers. But is all of the industry ready to act if things go suddenly wrong?...

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Can social media shed light on the state of vaping?

Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th June 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Two new studies have set out to demonstrate the assistance that mass data sets from the Internet can give to future e-cigarette...

European parliamentarians call for review of TPD science

Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th June 2016 || News analysis |

Two British members of the European Parliament have asked the EU to take the first steps in reassessing the scientific information that supports its Tobacco Products Directive...

Signs of policy relaxation in New Zealand, but Australia remains strict

Written by Freddie Dawson || 6th June 2016 || News analysis |

The attitudes of New Zealand’s policy-makers to e-cigarettes seem to be growing more liberal than those of their counterparts in Australia, with the smaller nation edging toward greater tolerance of vaping while the larger maintains an unforgiving...

Online age verification: industry-body members no better than others

Written by Freddie Dawson || 29th May 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Membership in a trade association is no guarantee that online e-cigarette sellers will adopt measures such as warning labels and age verification, according to a new U.S. study, despite industry bodies often arguing that their members lead the...

European user numbers reveal differing national patterns

Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th May 2016 || News analysis |

The number of people in Europe who had tried an e-cigarette doubled between 2012 and...

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Studies on youth and advertising rely on already-familiar data

Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th May 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Two new studies on the correlation between youth vaping and e-cigarette advertising are likely to be used to support calls for regulation of marketing – but they may add less to the debate than they seem, being based...

Plans for vaping ban in Wales are officially abandoned

Written by Freddie Dawson || 24th May 2016 || News analysis |

The proposed Welsh public vaping ban is officially dead....

Two more British hospitals relent on vaping prohibitions

Written by Freddie Dawson || 24th May 2016 || News analysis |

Two large hospitals in England have become the country’s first to reverse vaping...

Do you want to build a vapour business? Don’t choose Malaysia

Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd May 2016 || News analysis |

A massive decline in Malaysian vaper numbers has been confirmed by a local industry...

British e-cig industry reluctantly, resentfully ready for TPD

Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th May 2016 || News analysis |

UK e-cig firms feel as prepared as they can be for the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), but many would still have liked to see it overturned by the European Court of Justice in the...

Anger, disappointment and fear for the future in America’s vape stores

Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th May 2016 || News analysis |

Small independent vape stores in the U.S. are almost universally negative in their reaction to the new deeming...

Some are sanguine, but PMTA fine print causes concern

Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th May 2016 || News analysis |

Some larger independent e-cigarette companies support the new rules from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), despite the debate over them being widely portrayed as an argument between Big Tobacco and health organisations on one side versus...

Deeming regulations: mixed views from industry, health experts

Written by Freddie Dawson || 6th May 2016 || News analysis |

Initial industry reaction broke down largely along expected lines - with many of the usual faces popping in with early assessments. Further reaction is expected as more people get to grips with the massive U.S. Food and Drug...

European court upholds TPD, dismisses all arguments

Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th May 2016 || News analysis |

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled against the British e-cigarette company Totally Wicked in its quest to overturn article 20 of the EU Tobacco Products Directive...

Lawsuit challenges U.S. ban on in-flight vaping

Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd May 2016 || News analysis |

A legal challenge has been mounted against the recent U.S. ban on using e-cigarettes aboard...

New e-cig design gets round TPD’s tank size limits

Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd May 2016 || News analysis |

E-cigarette designers may have found a way around the restrictions on maximum e-liquid tank size in the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive...

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BAT acquires UK e-cigarette company Ten Motives

Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th April 2016 || News analysis |

British American Tobacco has announced the acquisition of Ten Motives, considered to be the UK's largest independent e-cigarette company....

ISO to start work on international e-cigarette standard in October

Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th April 2016 || News analysis |

The first meeting of an ISO standards committee covering e-cigarettes will take place on 24th October in Osaka,...

New Chinese trade body promises standardisation, lobbying

Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd April 2016 || News analysis |

A new trade association for the e-cigarette industry in China plans to lobby local and national governments to improve the business...

CDC’s numbers reignite debate on youth vaping in the U.S.

Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd April 2016 || News analysis |

New numbers on U.S. youth tobacco use from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have caused consternation on both sides of the e-cigarette debate, focused on whether growing numbers of young vapers represent an achievement or...

Senator’s proposal would ban e-cigarettes on all U.S. flights

Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th April 2016 || News analysis |

A new proposal in the U.S. Senate would eliminate e-cigarettes from planes entirely....

Point-of-sale restrictions “could be overkill, despite youth vaping link”

Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th April 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

A new study has shown some relation between e-cigarette point-of-sale (POS) advertising and youth uptake of e-cigs. But the authors urge people to not jump to conclusions because of the results....

New UK trade association looks beyond TPD struggles

Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th April 2016 || News analysis |

A new UK trade association says it will represent e-cigarette companies without influence by pharmaceutical or tobacco...

UK smoking-cessation services encouraged to suggest vaping

Written by Freddie Dawson || 11th April 2016 || News analysis |

New guidance for stop-smoking services in the UK demonstrates how e-cigarettes can contribute to smoking cessation....

Clear leaders emerging as U.S. online traffic patterns settle down

Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th March 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Consistent patterns in Website traffic could be a sign that the U.S. online e-cigarette sector is maturing, a new ECigIntelligence report...

State advertising restrictions running into constitutional problems

Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th March 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Attempts to regulate e-cigarette advertising in some U.S. states are falling foul of constitutional law, a new ECigIntelligence in-depth report...

U.S. pharmacy chain includes e-cigs in anti-tobacco crusade

Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd March 2016 || News analysis |

A new $50m youth anti-smoking campaign funded by American pharmacy chain CVS is to target e-cigarettes as well as conventional tobacco products....

New vape stores help keep Britain’s shopping streets alive

Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd March 2016 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Vape stores are helping revitalise Britain’s shopping streets, according to a new...

Black markets flourish as Asian governments ponder regulation

Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th March 2016 || News analysis |

E-cigarette regulation is expected in the near future in both Malaysia and Hong Kong, while other southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam face continuing battles with illegal...

“Cheap date” remark is an expensive mistake as Welsh health bill fails

Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th March 2016 || News analysis |

A partial ban on the public use of e-cigarettes in Wales has fallen through. But this was not due to a vaper grassroots movement. Instead, it was down to bitterness over a petty insult by a politician....

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