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 ...
Nicotine alternatives remain unregulated in Panama following a 14th May Supreme Court decision declaring a 2022 law unconstitutional that banned e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and similar devices ...
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 ...
In a victory for Panama’s vaping industry, the country’s Supreme Court declared a 2022 law unconstitutional that completely banned e-cigarettes as well as heated tobacco and similar devices ...
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 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 ...
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...
The regulation of new and emerging e-cigarette, heated tobacco and nicotine products will be one of the central topics of discussion at the COP10-MOP3 conferences next year, said the head of the WHO FCTC ...
Panama’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit that claims the country’s 2022 e-cig and heated tobacco ban is unconstitutional – a move seen as a positive first step by tobacco harm reduction groups...
Panama’s ban on the use, sale and import of e-cigarettes is unconstitutional, according to claims made by the Panama Association for the Reduction of Damage by Tobacco Use (ARDTP) in a lawsuit ...
Venezuela is the latest Latin American country to issue a government decree banning nationwide sales, consumption, exports and distribution of vapes and heated tobacco ...
Vaping advocates in Panama have been repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to get a blanket ban on the use, sale and importing of e-cigarette products overturned ...
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 ...
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