Written by Tiziana Cauli || 25th April 2024 || News analysis |
Representatives from the European tobacco industry hope the renewal of the EU Parliament, following elections in June, will bring about changes in the EU Commission (EC)’s attitude towards them ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 11th April 2024 || Blogs |
Three years after the expected date, the Spanish government has finally approved the country’s new anti-smoking plan, which will now need to be implemented through different laws across the country ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 22nd March 2024 || News analysis |
New Zealand’s associate health minister announced that the government has agreed to outlaw non-reusable vapes and impose harsher sanctions against the sale of vaping products to under-age users ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 22nd March 2024 || News analysis |
Altria and Juul will have to pay just over $300m to settle a US class action lawsuit over providing misleading information on the safety of Juul’s e-cigarettes and targeting under-age users ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 14th March 2024 || Blogs |
The fate of disposable vapes appears to be sealed across much of Europe, with at least four countries already determined to ban non-rechargeable e-cigarettes under the auspices of protecting young people and the environment ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 8th March 2024 || News analysis |
Belgium looks close to achieving a ban on disposable e-cigarettes, after failing in a previous attempt that was met by a negative opinion from the European Commission (EC) in late 2021 ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 22nd February 2024 || Blogs |
No smoking and no nicotine consumption at all is better for your health than quitting cigarettes without quitting nicotine, says the European Respiratory Society, stating the obvious ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 8th February 2024 || News analysis |
A bill banning disposable vapes has been approved by the French parliament, although no date for when the ban will come into effect has yet been announced ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 8th February 2024 || News analysis |
UK consumer goods company Supreme expects to outperform its market forecasts for the 2024 financial year, despite a third of its revenue coming from the distribution of disposables ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 8th February 2024 || Blogs |
European authorities seem unsure on the timeline for the next step in the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) review and laissez-faire about keeping anyone up to date on developments for it ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 2nd February 2024 || News analysis |
Health minister Mónica García announced that Spain will have a new smoking prevention plan in place this year, reforming the tobacco law – which is expected to bring about new restrictions for vaping ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 26th January 2024 || News analysis |
No further steps are expected in the revision of the EU legislative framework for tobacco control at least until this year’s second half, based on updates of the evaluation process timeline on the EC website ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 15th January 2024 || News analysis |
The Italian parliament passed a bill extending excise tax rates on nicotine-free e-liquids to these ingredients, which will also bring them under the spectrum of the state monopoly, like other traditional and novel tobacco products ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 12th January 2024 || News analysis |
A federal court has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reconsider its marketing denial order (MDO) for flavoured e-liquids produced by e-cigarette companies Triton and Vapetasia ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 14th December 2023 || News analysis |
A new bill to ban disposable e-cigarettes is now awaiting a vote by France’s Senate. If it succeeds there, it would likely enter into force sometime next year as part of a newly launched anti-tobacco strategy ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 11th December 2023 || News analysis |
As the revision process of the EU tobacco policy framework keeps being delayed, commissioners are still not able to come up with a timeline, or even a date for the submission of the new texts ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 30th November 2023 || News analysis |
UK consumer goods company Supreme scored record-high revenues in the six months ending 30th September, partly due to growth in the vaping area of its business, the company said ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 24th November 2023 || News analysis |
A new Danish government plan to curb the consumption of tobacco and nicotine among young people is facing criticism from international vaping advocates ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 23rd November 2023 || Blogs |
This time last year, the start of a debate within the European Parliament on the revisions to the EU tobacco policy framework was imminent, but now it’s not even part of the 2024 parliamentary schedule ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 16th November 2023 || Blogs |
The latest nationwide survey on tobacco product consumption among US youth showed that high school students in the country are ditching vaping, which is definitely good news ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 15th November 2023 || News analysis |
Over 50% of French vapers would buy e-cigarettes from the black market or abroad, while 25% would consider resuming smoking if a flavour ban is implemented ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 14th November 2023 || News analysis |
Reported vaping use fell over 4% among high school students from 2022 to 2023, according to the recently released annual National Youth Tobacco Survey ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 14th November 2023 || News analysis |
E-cigarettes are increasingly popular in Switzerland according to the country’s latest healthcare survey, which shows 3% of the population used them in 2022 ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 12th October 2023 || Blogs |
A newly proposed generational ban on tobacco purchases in England may accelerate the already dropping cigarette smoking rates among young people in the country ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 29th September 2023 || News analysis |
Two US studies emphasising the health risks associated with e-cigs could provide further fuel to opponents of vaping and advocates for stricter regulation, but new research in the UK may do the opposite ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 26th September 2023 || News analysis |
Dutch citizens think vaping should be regulated more strictly or banned. Two-thirds of survey respondents would like to have stricter laws in force to limit or ban vaping, according to a poll ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 14th September 2023 || News analysis |
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against four e-cigarette brands whose products were promoted by influencers on social media platform TikTok ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 12th September 2023 || News analysis |
Less than 13% of adults smoke cigarettes in the UK, the lowest figure ever recorded by the country’s Office for National Statistics (ONS). This represents a small decrease from the 13.3% recorded for 2021 ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 4th September 2023 || News analysis |
France is to ban disposable e-cigarettes as part of its national tobacco control plan – but will not raise taxes on any tobacco products. The prime minister says disposable vapes give young users “bad habits” ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 30th August 2023 || Blogs |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seems to be looking for the right words to educate smokers about the reduced risks associated with vaping ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 28th August 2023 || News analysis |
Although young adults in the US are more likely to vape or use cannabis than to smoke cigarettes, many Americans still perceive vaping as dangerous, and support stronger regulation ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 17th August 2023 || News analysis |
The US government is opposing a bill that would prevent the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from enforcing a ban on menthol cigarettes it proposed last year ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 10th August 2023 || News analysis |
Australian dentists have joined the country’s chorus of opposition to vaping, with the Australian Dental Association (ADA) including a warning against e-cigarettes in its updated recommendations for oral health ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 9th August 2023 || News analysis |
The UK National Health Service (NHS) would save over £500m a year if half the smokers in England switched to vaping, according to a study by Brunel University London ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 8th August 2023 || News analysis |
Consumer goods company Supreme expects increased e-cigarette revenues after completing a non-exclusive UK distribution deal with Elf Bar and Lost Mary ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 19th July 2023 || News analysis |
Pro-vaping lobbyists have urged Spanish voters to back centre and right-leaning parties in the 23rd July elections, fearing damaging regulation if the current centre-left coalition remains in power ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 11th May 2023 || News analysis |
US tobacco giant Altria is to pay $235m to settle at least 6,000 state and federal cases related to Juul, ending most of the suits it is still facing in relation to the e-cigarette company ...
US tobacco giant Altria closed the first quarter of 2023 with a slight fall in its net revenues compared with the same period last year, after divesting from Juul Labs and agreeing to purchase Njoy ...
While most European Parliament members (MEPs) are likely to take a conservative approach to the revision of tobacco regulations, some are more open to acknowledging a positive role for alternatives such as e-cigarettes ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 25th April 2023 || News analysis |
Czech MEP Radka Maxová says it is impossible to predict the final outcome of the EU debate on revision of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), but “the trend in EU legislation is clear: abolitionism” ...
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Written by Tiziana Cauli || 24th March 2023 || News analysis |
A US court has allowed RJ Reynolds Vapor Company to continue selling its Vuse menthol e-cigarette products after the FDA issued marketing denial orders against them last week ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 17th March 2023 || News analysis |
UK vaping manufacturer Supreme has signed an agreement to sell the intellectual property of its T-Juice e-liquids to French e-cigarette wholesaler La Vape for €4.5m ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 28th February 2023 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its plans to address the recommendations put forward in a damning independent review of its Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 15th February 2023 || News analysis |
A French anti-smoking group has called for a ban on non-tobacco flavours in all nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, while accusing tobacconists of flouting advertising rules ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 16th January 2023 || News analysis |
UK supermarket chain Waitrose’s recent announcement that it would stop stocking disposable vaping devices in a bid to curb youth vaping rates as well as pollution was met with criticism for its alleged incoherence ...
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 4th January 2023 || News analysis |
Young adults in the US are giving up on cigarettes as their consumption of cannabis outgrows that of tobacco – and there are suggestions that e-cigarettes are also steering them away from smoking ...