Market and regulatory data for the vapour sector in Brazil

Brazilian Senate committee considers bill to legalise e-cigarette market as use rises

Written by ECigIntelligence | 13th May 2025

A bill that would reset the country’s stance on vaping products, the import and merchandising of which have been prohibited since a 2009 ban, will likely be voted on in committee in the Brazilian Senate...

Amid US tariffs on China, vape production unlikely to find new base in Latin America

Written by ECigIntelligence | 24th April 2025

Steep US tariffs on China have also put pressure on e-cig importers, who may look to other countries to diversify production away from China. However, it seems Latin American countries cannot come to the rescue...

BAT’s full-year earnings balanced by new categories, with Vuse still leading globally

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 13th February 2025

British American Tobacco (BAT) reported a decline in revenues for the year, offset by a positive performance in new categories across all three regions ...

How did we do? ECigIntelligence’s predictions for 2024 under review

Written by Freddie Dawson | 31st December 2024

We look back at predictions ECigIntelligence published at the start of 2024 to see how well we did in calling events that would occur in the e-cigarette sector throughout the year ...

Latin America: regulatory news round-up

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 3rd June 2024

Developments in the alternatives category in some Latin American countries may feed new hopes for legality and regulation. However, the majority keep heading towards stringent regulations or prohibitions ...

Paraguay: the hub for illegal trafficking of e-cigarettes into Argentina and Brazil

Written by ECigIntelligence | 23rd May 2024

Paraguay has become the main entry point for the millions of vaping devices sold and consumed illegally in Argentina and Brazil — where vape imports are prohibited — according to industry experts ...

Will Brazil legalise e-cigs tomorrow or will the ban be kept in place for now?

Written by ECigIntelligence | 16th April 2024

A decision on the regulation of vaping and heated tobacco products in Brazil to be made tomorrow (17th April) could then potentially be overruled by the country’s legislature ...

More outrage against flavour bans as traditional industries are threatened

Written by ECigIntelligence | 1st April 2024

The trend towards ever tighter restrictions on flavoured e-liquids may prevent under-age vaping, but it also risks killing off traditional industries around the world and even threatens rare species ...

‘Historic decisions’ on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products absent at COP10

Written by ECigIntelligence | 14th March 2024

COP10 was to be the conference where countries finally got to grips with emerging alternative tobacco products, but none of the decisions made applied to ENDS or HTPs or their industries ...

Leaders in Latin American vape sector fear further e-cig restrictions at COP10

Written by ECigIntelligence | 5th February 2024

Leaders of vaping associations in Latin America have told ECigIntelligence they anticipate further restrictions and reinforced regional bans on tobacco alternative products to result from this week's COP10 ...

Latin America’s vapour industry hopeful that some bans will be lifted in 2024

Written by ECigIntelligence | 2nd January 2024

E-cig and vape associations in Argentina, Mexico, Panama and other Latin American nations are hopeful that 2024 will bring eased restrictions and the lifting of bans that have complicated sales and consumption of tobacco alternatives...

ENDS debate splits opinion in Brazil, where over 2m users defy current ban

Written by ECigIntelligence | 6th October 2023

The first in a series of debates on tobacco alternatives in Brazil has shown how opinion is slowly evolving. A public hearing on the regulatory status of ENDS was held on 28th September ...

Should it stay or should it go? Brazil’s ban on e-cigarettes is put in question again

Written by ECigIntelligence | 13th July 2023

A relaxation of the ban on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco in Brazil could be around the corner following a public consultation, according to some commentators in the country ...

Brazil warns 32 companies to stop selling e-cigarette products or face big fines

Written by ECigIntelligence | 14th September 2022

The Brazilian Ministry of Justice has written to 32 companies ordering them to cease the sale of vaping products in the country ...

Brazil's health chiefs decide e-cigarette ban should stay – and be made tougher

Written by ECigIntelligence | 12th July 2022

E-cigarettes will almost certainly remain banned in Brazil following a unanimous vote by the board of Anvisa, the country’s health agency ...

Health agency consultants recommend preserving Brazilian e-cigarette ban

Written by ECigIntelligence | 26th April 2022

A long-anticipated report on possible future e-cigarette regulation will not make pleasant reading for Brazil’s vaping industry and its supporters ...

ECigIntelligence's 2021 predictions reviewed: did our crystal ball work?

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 27th January 2022

We look back at predictions ECigIntelligence published at the start of 2021. Real events and developments confirmed ECigIntelligence’s analysis in many cases, though Covid delayed things ...

End of the ban? Brazil nearing a decision at last on regulation of e-cigarettes

Written by ECigIntelligence | 3rd January 2022

Brazil seems close to clarifying a future legal path for tobacco alternatives in a regulatory process expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2022 ...

Brazilian MPs consider e-cig prohibition ahead of possible new legal path

Written by ECigIntelligence | 17th May 2021

A new proposal to reinforce a nationwide ban on e-cigarettes in Brazil is being considered in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress ...

World No Tobacco Day 2020: the debate about harm reduction

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 31st May 2020

World No Tobacco Day provides an opportunity to consider the approach that public health authorities, policymakers, and advocates around the world have towards the role of tobacco-alternatives products ...

Brazil puts back until 2021 a decision on whether to legalise e-cigarettes

Written by ECigIntelligence | 26th May 2020

Brazil has postponed until next year a decision on the possible legalisation of e-cigarettes amid a “reorientation” of health priorities to contain the expansion of the coronavirus pandemic ...

Brazil to launch public consultation on approach to e-cigarette regulation

Written by ECigIntelligence | 5th September 2019

The Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency, ANVISA, is to launch a public consultation as a step towards deciding whether to amend the national ban e-cigs and heated tobacco ...

Brazil opens debate about possible legalisation of e-cigarettes

Written by ECigIntelligence | 15th August 2019

Brazil has held its first hearing on the possible legalisation of e-cigs, with an intense debate about changing the 2009 resolution that forbids their advertising, import, and sale ...

Smoking in Brazil – public health experts plead for better data

Written by ECigIntelligence | 21st June 2018

Brazilian public health officials are trying to make judgements in areas such as the regulation of e-cigarettes without clear data on the country’s smoking demographics – and they want more and better information ...

Brazil’s tobacco control experts united against legalising vaping

Written by ECigIntelligence | 7th June 2018

E-cigarettes will not be legalised in Brazil any time soon, according to members of a government science panel who concluded there was not enough scientific evidence to justify supporting them ...

Despite official bans, South America has great market potential for e-cigs

Written by ECigIntelligence | 29th June 2017

E-cigarettes, banned throughout most of South America, could nevertheless be taken up rapidly across the continent, according to a senior public health policy expert on the...

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