An insight into how COVID-19 influences the nicotine market – where are we now?

Written by JuditBach || 18th September 2020 || Business briefing |

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Our managing director, Tim Phillips, recently discussed how COVID-19 influences the nicotine market at the Nicotine Cannabis Strategies Europe, which took place online on 10th September. Tim presents the COVID-19 and EVALI impact on the market and on...

How EVALI, and the way it was reported, damaged perceptions of vaping

Written by ECigIntelligence || 18th September 2020 || Business briefing |

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Many smokers believe vaping is at least as harmful as combustible cigarettes, despite e-cigarettes’ lower production of toxicants and carcinogens; researchers in England have been examining why ...

E-cigarette use by US school students falls by a third in a year, CDC reports

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 10th September 2020 || Business briefing |

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New official data shows that the number of young people in the US who are current e-cigarette users has fallen sharply, from 5.4m in 2019 to 3.6m this year ...

European cardiologists see potential in e-cigarettes but warn on flavours

Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th September 2020 || Business briefing |

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The European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) believes the use of e-cigarettes for adult smoking cessation could be a “sensible argument”, but argues that more scientific evidence is needed ...

British Columbia retailers warn of stock reduction due to new provincial rules

Written by ECigIntelligence || 28th August 2020 || Business briefing |

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British Columbia's vaping industry is scrambling after the western Canadian province recently announced new regulations amid the prediction that the new rules could lead to shortages of some e-liquids ...

Arizona granted $22.5m judgement against out-of-business Eonsmoke

Written by ECigIntelligence || 18th August 2020 || Business briefing |

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US e-liquid manufacturer Eonsmoke, which recently announced that it had ceased all operations, has been ordered to pay $22.5m to the state of Arizona for selling unapproved vapour products ...

South Korean government claims credit for 80% crash in e-cigarette sales

Written by ECigIntelligence || 11th August 2020 || Business briefing |

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Sales of closed-system e-cigarettes in South Korea were down by 80% in the first half of 2020, a fall attributed by the government to its own ongoing policy efforts to discourage vaping ...

Canadian businesses adapt to federal restrictions on vaping advertising

Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th August 2020 || Business briefing , Marketing & retailing |

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New restrictions on e-cigarette promotion and advertising are coming into force today in Canada and the vaping industry is getting ready to comply with another change in the federal legislation ...

Smoore ‘positively shocked’ about its Hong Kong IPO response

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th August 2020 || Business briefing |

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Chinese vaping manufacturer Smoore believes that the good round of investment that the company got after being officially listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange a month ago prove its “financial strength” ...

Consumer habits across the UK market

Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th August 2020 || Business briefing |

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Stavroula Anastasopoulou, our senior market analyst, discussed consumer habits across the UK market at Vape Live during VOXPO - Virtual Online Vape & CBD Expo on 31st...

Spanish industry rebels against government anti-vaping campaign

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd August 2020 || Business briefing |

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The Union of Vaping Promoters and Entrepreneurs (UPEV) has taken the anti-tobacco campaign from the Ministry of Health to the Spanish Ombudsman amid “hurting industry interests” ...

Vuse performance in the US boosts BAT’s revenue in H1 2020

Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st July 2020 || Business briefing |

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British American Tobacco (BAT)’s revenue rose by 0.8% to £12.3bn ($16.1bn) in H1 2020, helped by a 14.7% increase in the new category segment ...

Juul US volume drops 10% in a year; hires a new director

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 29th July 2020 || Business briefing |

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The volume of Juul in the US is estimated at 440m units in Q2 2020, nearly 10% less than in 2019, while the company aims to “reset” its business ...

EU spent €500k on TPD study and ‘reactive communication’ on tobacco

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd July 2020 || Business briefing |

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The EU Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) spent more than €180m in 2019 on public health policies, including a study on the TPD and a media campaign on novel tobacco products ...

Californian biotech company aims to market vape-style NRT device in US

Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th July 2020 || Business briefing |

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A California-based company is seeking US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorisation to market what it calls the first “vapour-style inhalable” nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) device ...

Number of vapers in the UK falls for the first time, official figures show

Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th July 2020 || Business briefing |

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The number of vapers in the UK fell slightly in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to annual data on adult smoking habits released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) ...

Podcast: the future of the Tobacco Products Directive and EU taxation

Written by ECigIntelligence || 1st July 2020 || Business briefing |

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ECigIntelligence managing news editor David Palacios joins Jon Bruford to discuss the implications and impact of the looming Tobacco Products Directive version 3 on the...

New tracker reveals extent of US trend towards fruit-flavoured e-liquids

Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th June 2020 || Business briefing |

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US vapers are becoming increasingly drawn to fruit flavours. In the first quarter of 2020 the category accounted for more than 40% of all e-liquids tracked by ECigIntelligence for its newly launched US flavours tracker ...

Reynolds sues LA County over ‘draconian’ e-cig flavour ban

Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th June 2020 || Business briefing |

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RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company and two of its affiliates have filed a lawsuit trying to strike down Los Angeles County’s ban on flavoured vapour and tobacco products ...

New minty e-liquid flavours laid out to tempt former menthol smokers

Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th June 2020 || Business briefing , Marketing & retailing |

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A month after the ban on menthol cigarettes came into effect in Europe, manufacturers are looking to new e-liquid lines to attract former menthol smokers looking for an alternative ...

How the 2019 US developments will impact the global vape market for many years to come

Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th June 2020 || Business briefing |

World

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Our managing director, Tim Phillips, recently discussed how the 2019 US developments will impact the global vape market at the Global Forum on Nicotine, which took place online on 11th and 12th June. He explored the US vape...

While vapour recovers, BAT puts back its £5bn goal for next-gen revenue

Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th June 2020 || Business briefing |

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British American Tobacco (BAT) is pushing back to 2025 its goal of achieving £5bn in revenues from its next-generation portfolio amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ...

Altria takes Reynolds to court over alleged Vuse patent infringement

Written by ECigIntelligence || 5th June 2020 || Business briefing |

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The Altria Group have filed a lawsuit for patent infringement against R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., a subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc., over some of its Vuse e-cigarette products ...

Vape stores across England preparing to reopen for business next month

Written by ECigIntelligence || 27th May 2020 || Business briefing , Marketing & retailing |

Europe

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The English vaping industry is preparing to reopen the roughly 3,000 vape stores across the country after a ten-week lockdown imposed by the government due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Imperial Brands posts 43.9% slump in next-generation half-year revenues

Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th May 2020 || Business briefing |

Europe

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Imperial Brands, the company behind the e-cigarette brand Blu, has recorded a major slump in revenue from its next-generation products ...

Altria aims for non-combustible success after Juul ‘disappointment’

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 16th May 2020 || Business briefing |

North America

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Virginia-based tobacco manufacturer Altria aims to establish the company as the industry leader by increasing its tobacco alternatives portfolio in ten years’ time and joining efforts in preventing underage use ...

Limited enforcement of the online sales and advertising ban in China

Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th May 2020 || Business briefing , Marketing & retailing |

Asia

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The enforcement of the ban issued in China in late 2019 that prohibits the online sales of e-cigarettes as well as vaping advertising has proven relatively ineffective, ECigIntelligence has found ...

Juul hits hard times as it plans to exit EU markets, US sales drop 10%

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 6th May 2020 || Business briefing |

Asia

Austria

Belgium

Europe

France

Portugal

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Spain

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Juul is not having the best of times, with an increasing decline in sales leading the company to pull out of South Korea and some European countries – while its sales in the US are not doing much...

‘95% safer’ or ‘just as bad’? How does the argument on vaping stand?

Written by Marc Beishon || 4th May 2020 || Business briefing |

Europe

France

Italy

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United Kingdom

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COVID-19

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Widely publicised linkages with the coronavirus are just the latest manifestation of distrust of vaping, in the public-health community as well as the media. So how does that “95% safer than smoking” view hold up? ...

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COVID-19 news round-up

Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th April 2020 || Business briefing |

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All ECigIntelligence’s COVID-19-related news briefings and other data can now be found in one place here ...

Flavour ban and coronavirus a double whammy for New Jersey vape trade

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th April 2020 || Business briefing |

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Vaping businesses in the US state of New Jersey, already crunched by the coronavirus pandemic, now say they need to make radical changes to stay afloat under a state ban on the sale of flavoured e-cigs ...

Podcast: e-cig and tobacco industry analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic

Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th April 2020 || Business briefing |

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Our host for today’s podcast is Tim Phillips, the founder and managing director of ECigIntelligence, who presents a year overview and analysis of the regulatory path in the e-cigarette sector ...

Pandemic measures place new pressures on US vaping trade

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd April 2020 || Business briefing , Marketing & retailing |

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The sweeping response to the global COVID-19 pandemic has had an uneven impact on the US vaping sector, with some stores being forced to close while others respond in novel ways to government restrictions ...

Billy Gifford, the new captain to drive into Altria’s future

Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th April 2020 || Business briefing |

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Altria has appointed Billy Gifford as the company’s new CEO and announced the retirement of current CEO and chairman, Howard Willard, who has been in the company for 28 years ...

US Federal Trade Commission sues Altria over Juul investment

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd April 2020 || Business briefing |

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking tobacco manufacturer Altria to court over its acquisition of a 35% stake in shares in Juul, alleging that the agreement between the two companies violated federal antitrust laws ...

UK online vaping orders rocket during lockdown; Italian sales plummet

Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd April 2020 || Business briefing , Marketing & retailing |

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An increase in online sales has been one of the most notable consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak on the vaping industry across Europe, as the sector continues to battle market disruptions and shop closures ...

BAT plans on near 500% increase in smoke-free users in 10 years, reports no hit from coronavirus

Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th March 2020 || Business briefing |

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British American Tobacco (BAT) is targeting an increase in non-combustible product consumers to 50m worldwide by 2030, from the current 11m ...

Impact on e-cigarette sales channels varies as countries face COVID-19

Written by Barnaby Page || 20th March 2020 || Business briefing |

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As European and North American authorities ramp up their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the effects on e-cigarette sales channels are mixed ...

Spring vaping shows and exhibitions worldwide fall victim to coronavirus

Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th March 2020 || Business briefing |

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Fears over the coronavirus outbreak, and governments’ responses to it, have led to the cancellation of a number of vaping events that were scheduled over spring at locations around the world ...

BAT posts big rise in next-generation revenues despite US crackdown

Written by ECigIntelligence || 27th February 2020 || Business briefing |

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British American Tobacco (BAT) has reported a 36.9% increase in next-generation products revenue in 2019 despite the recent and ongoing crackdown on vaping in the US ...

Juul suspends all sales in Indonesia, faces probe by coalition of US states

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 27th February 2020 || Business briefing |

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Less than a year after launching in the country, Juul Labs is stopping selling all its products in Indonesia while it puts new measures in place to combat under-age purchases. Juul also faces further legal action in the...

Our new special intelligence service now covers the wider tobacco field

Written by ECigIntelligence || 25th February 2020 || Business briefing |

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TobaccoIntelligence, a new service from the team that produces ECigIntelligence, is now available, covering the global tobacco and nicotine alternatives sector ...

Coronavirus in China may mean global shortages for vaping manufacturers

Written by ECigIntelligence || 25th February 2020 || Business briefing |

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The coronavirus that has so far killed more than 2600 people in China has had limited impact up to now in the vaping industry around the world, but severe movement restrictions have raised fears ...

UK launches information campaign about risks of e-cig-related fires

Written by ECigIntelligence || 18th February 2020 || Business briefing |

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Vapers in the UK are being warned by the government to take care with batteries and chargers, in a new public-information campaign launched to address the risk of e-cigarette-related...

Misleading cases: how EVALI sparked an epidemic of misinformation

Written by Lorraine Mullaney || 17th February 2020 || Business briefing |

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While nicotine vaping has been largely acquitted of involvement in the US outbreak of vape-related lung disease, will the torrent of misinformation that followed have a long-term impact on the e-cig sector? ...

44% rise in HnB shipments drives a year of smoke-free growth for PMI

Written by ECigIntelligence || 6th February 2020 || Business briefing |

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PMI saw its market share of heated tobacco units in IQOS markets, excluding the US, rise by 1.4 percentage points to 5% last year, with a 44.2% increase in HnB shipments ...

Imperial anticipates lower year-end revenues amid regulatory crackdown

Written by ECigIntelligence || 5th February 2020 || Business briefing |

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Imperial Brands, maker of the e-cigarette brand Blu, expects “significantly lower” year-on-year net revenues on its “next generation products” as a consequence of “regulatory uncertainty and adverse news flow” ...

Tobacco ads in Germany – spending goes up while ban debate goes on

Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th February 2020 || Business briefing , Marketing & retailing |

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While politicians in Germany continue to debate a future ban on tobacco-related advertising, new figures show that expenditure on ads by the country’s tobacco industry has increased ...

Altria investment value in Juul drops by 65% in a year

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 31st January 2020 || Business briefing |

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The investment value of Altria in e-cig company Juul fell by 65% in almost a year due to the recent developments in the US affecting the brand ...

JT to slash prices of Ploom Tech devices in bid to capture Japanese market

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th January 2020 || Business briefing , Marketing & retailing |

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Japan Tobacco (JT) is cutting the price of its Ploom Tech and Ploom Tech+ hybrid devices from 1st February as it continues to lag behind its chief Big Tobacco competitors in its home market ...