The rising popularity of tobacco alternatives as well as new regulations on the way will make the e-cigarette issue hard to ignore after this week's European elections ...
A federal judge has ordered the US FDA to accelerate its reviewing of e-cigarettes currently on the market. Meanwhile, North Carolina’s attorney general is taking Juul to court ...
In the words of acting commissioner Ned Sharpless, the US FDA remains set on fighting the “epidemic of e-cigarette use by kids” and on “strategies to help those who are already addicted” ...
The government of Quebec must decide by early June whether to appeal against a Quebec Superior Court judgement that struck down several restrictions on promoting vaping ...
Dutch health secretary Paul Blokhuis has further defended his position that electronic cigarettes are not a successful tool for giving up smoking and provided details on upcoming regulations ...
The California state legislature is considering a proposed law that would have an important impact in the local e-cigarette industry. Senate bill 424 would ban disposable and other single-use nicotine products to any person “of any age” in...
An Arizona bill that has the support of the e-cigarette and tobacco industries would raise the state's minimum legal age for purchasing nicotine and tobacco products from 18 to 21, but tobacco control activists are wary ...
China is set to enforce new industry standards for electronic cigarettes, laid out in detail in a recent submission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) ...
Lawmakers in Florida are at the end of the state’s annual legislative session. During this year’s session, members of both chambers and political parties supported several measures that would restrict the sale and use of e-cigarettes across the...
New Zealand has set in stone its objective of becoming a smoke-free country, and the latest measure to achieve this by 2025 is a plan to raise public awareness of vaping as a way to stop smoking ...
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is investigating a complaint that a social media campaign for Vype e-cigarettes targets children and young people ...
More than two-thirds of voters in Texas reportedly favour the idea of using “sin” taxes on tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to help fund schools ...
The Polish Ministry of Finance has announced it will raise the excise tax on novel tobacco products by 3% next year as part of its plans to adjust the rates on alcohol and tobacco products in accordance with...
A bill has been proposed in the US Congress that would raise the minimum purchasing age for vapour products to 21 throughout the country, prohibit online e-cig sales, and ban flavours, including menthol ...
The World Bank has published a paper on e-cigarette use and taxation that could prove influential in many countries, possibly leading towards moves for greater taxing of vapour products ...
The Swedish Consumer Agency is preparing general advice on the marketing of e-cigarettes and refill containers to be published once the new amendment of the Tobacco Act comes into force on 1st July ...
The Canadian province of British Columbia is considering a ban on e-liquid flavours, and restricting e-cig sales to adult-only tobacco stores, vape stores and approved pharmacies ...
The US FDA has written to 12 well-known convenience store chains – including Walmart, Kroger, and Family Dollar – accusing them of selling tobacco products to minors and ordering them to stop ...
The European Commission has allocated a significant part of its health budget for the year to gathering data for the coming revision of the the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...
The $83.4bn, two-year Wisconsin state budget proposal for 2020-2021 proposes a tax of 71% on e-cigs products, by placing them under the existing state tobacco tax ...
The Indian trade ministry has said there is no legal basis for prohibiting e-cig imports, and is reported to have asked the health ministry to prepare legislation that will have that effect ...
A bill in the Texas House of Representatives would ban the sale of vaping product containers with features that might entice young people, while others would impose e-liquid taxes ...
The New York vapour industry has condemned the state’s new budget for 2020 as a devastating backward step – particularly the introduction from 2020 of a 20% sales tax on all e-liquids ...
Florida appears to be on the road towards joining the Tobacco 21 movement, while another bill also moving through the state legislature would ban indoor vaping at work ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) budget for financial year 2020 has been set at $747m, a significant increase on this year’s figure of $611m ...
Public-health experts and the e-cigarette industry alike today expressed shock at the announcement of the likely successor to outgoing FDA commissioner Scott...
The US FDA has issued a proposed rule to establish requirements for the content and format of substantial equivalence (SE) reports for tobacco products ...
As the UK’s government and parliament continue to tie themselves in knots over the impending departure from the EU, the minister most closely associated with vaping policy has quit his post ...
The US FDA has issued guidance to help vape shops that sell newly deemed products navigate the agency's enforcement of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C) and its specific requirements ...
With an interim commissioner set to take over, the US FDA remains highly focused on the e-cigarette industry – while the industry itself is no doubt watching developments at the FDA just as closely ...
After being for some time the only EU member state to allow only nicotine-containing e-cigarettes on the market, Greece has taken a step forward by regulating the sale of nicotine-free vapour products ...
Europe’s health authorities have commissioned a science committee to gather evidence on the health risks of e-cigarettes for the coming revision of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...
Pressure on the US vapour industry has increased yet again. Local legislators in San Francisco are attempting to ban e-cig sales entirely, while the FDA commissioner is pondering more action against pods ...
The Delhi High Court has granted interim relief to e-cigarette vendors in India, delaying until 17th May the effects of a government circular calling for a nationwide ban on vaping products ...
Most public hospitals in England ban vaping on their premises despite health advice from Public Health England (PHE) to allow it, according to a survey conducted by pro-smoking group Forest ...
With talks still ongoing to form a government following Estonia’s parliamentary elections, there is hope for a policy change on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco in one of the most restrictive vapour markets ...
The US FDA has spelled out details of its planned crackdown on flavoured e-cigarettes, including retail restrictions and an earlier PMTA deadline for most flavoured...
PMI and Ferrari have been forced to cancel their partnership for this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, the opening race of the Formula 1 season. The Mission Winnow branding will, however, reappear for the rest of the season ...
The next head of the US FDA has been named. Norman "Ned" Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, will take over when Scott Gottlieb steps down next month – but only as acting commissioner ...
A bill in support of “tobacco 21” regulations passed the New York state Assembly and was delivered to the Senate, with opposition from industry associations – and support from Juul ...
Outgoing US FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s $6.1bn funding request for fiscal year 2020 includes for the first time an element aimed specifically at the development of e-cigarette regulation ...
Ireland’s Health Services Executive (HSE) has confirmed that it does not endorse e-cigarettes as an aid to help smokers give up, despite adding information on e-cigs to the government website on quitting smoking ...
For once, Democrats and Republicans are in agreement: President Donald Trump was right to hire Scott Gottlieb to lead the US FDA. Politicians and policymakers reacted to Gottlieb’s resignation announcement on 5th March ...
The news that Scott Gottlieb would be stepping down as FDA commissioner has elicited a predictably mixed response from those involved in US public health, tobacco control and the vaping industry ...
Japan’s health authorities have issued new ordinances related to smoking areas, including the first designated signs to apply to dedicated areas for the use of heated tobacco products ...
Almost all news coverage of Scott Gottlieb’s shock resignation as FDA commissioner depicts him as the enemy of e-cigs and speaks of his “unfinished fight against vaping” – but it wasn’t always that way ...
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and vocal critic of e-cigarettes, has resigned and will leave office in about a month; no successor has been named ...
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