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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 ...

Colombia regulates e-cigarettes for first time to keep in step with growing usage

Written by ECigIntelligence | 27th May 2024

A law to regulate vaping, heated tobacco and oral nicotine products in Colombia for the first time was signed into law by president Gustavo Petro on 9th May. Products are now legal, with some restrictions...

Colombia passes regulation specifically for e-cigarettes and tobacco alternatives

Written by ECigIntelligence | 3rd April 2024

Colombia’s congress has passed a bill that would create nationwide regulation to govern the use, sale and promotion of e-cigarettes and other tobacco alternatives for the first time in the country’s history ...

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...

PMI ends interest in US vaping market, outsources manufacturing elsewhere

Written by Freddie Dawson | 28th April 2023

Philip Morris International will scale back and partially outsource its vaping business, instead focusing on other tobacco alternatives that can help it become a majority smoke-free revenue company by 2025 ...

Colombian Ministry of Health backs bill to introduce e-cigarette regulation

Written by ECigIntelligence | 11th March 2021

Colombia’s Parliament is considering a bill to update the country’s existing anti-tobacco law with fresh regulations on the use and sale of vaping products ...

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 ...

Colombia moves towards legislation equating vapes with combustibles

Written by ECigIntelligence | 10th October 2019

Legislation to restrict the use of e-cigarettes in Colombia is picking up momentum, with a final vote in Congress expected by the end of the year ...

Colombian bid to regulate vaping as smoking tied up in political numbers

Written by ECigIntelligence | 19th December 2018

A new bill proposed in Colombia’s Senate is paving the way for the country to begin regulating e-cigarettes on a par with tobacco – though the plan is tied up in the country’s complex political...

Colombian health ministry calls for IQOS to be treated like combustibles

Written by ECigIntelligence | 30th April 2018

Colombia’s health and finance ministries have moved to force heated tobacco products such as IQOS to comply with the country’s tobacco law, arguing there is no evidence to suggest that they present any lower risk...

Colombia puts e-cigarette regulation on the back burner as elections loom

Written by ECigIntelligence | 22nd August 2017

An attempt to regulate e-cigarettes in Colombia has failed at its first voting hurdle, with no prospect of any renewed proposal coming soon ...

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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Latin America: regulatory news round-up

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 3rd June 2024

Colombia regulates e-cigarettes for first time to keep in step with growing usage

Written by ECigIntelligence | 27th May 2024

Colombia passes regulation specifically for e-cigarettes and tobacco alternatives

Written by ECigIntelligence | 3rd April 2024

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

Written by ECigIntelligence | 5th February 2024

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

Written by ECigIntelligence | 2nd January 2024

PMI ends interest in US vaping market, outsources manufacturing elsewhere

Written by Freddie Dawson | 28th April 2023

Colombian Ministry of Health backs bill to introduce e-cigarette regulation

Written by ECigIntelligence | 11th March 2021

World No Tobacco Day 2020: the debate about harm reduction

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 31st May 2020

Colombia moves towards legislation equating vapes with combustibles

Written by ECigIntelligence | 10th October 2019

Colombian bid to regulate vaping as smoking tied up in political numbers

Written by ECigIntelligence | 19th December 2018

Colombian health ministry calls for IQOS to be treated like combustibles

Written by ECigIntelligence | 30th April 2018

Colombia puts e-cigarette regulation on the back burner as elections loom

Written by ECigIntelligence | 22nd August 2017

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

Written by ECigIntelligence | 29th June 2017

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