Market and legal data for the vaping sector globally

What to expect in e-cigs in 2025: is this the end for flavours and disposables?

Written by Freddie Dawson | 10th January 2025

The year 2025 is shaping up to be a significant one for vaping. ECigIntelligence predicts several long-anticipated policy developments will start to emerge as regulators attempt to catch up to the rapidly evolving vaping market...

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 ...

Bans and taxes on disposables took centre stage in 2024, along with politics at play

Written by Freddie Dawson | 19th December 2024

“Disposables” was once again the word of the year in vaping – more specifically for 2024, “a ban on disposables” was the phrase of the year in the sector, with many governments passing prohibition laws...

E-cigarettes and vaping are marking a turning point in global smoking trends

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 21st November 2024

E-cigarettes and vaping are sparking a global revolution in public health, with new research showing they’re helping millions of smokers quit faster than ever before, outpacing traditional anti-smoking efforts and reshaping the nicotine market ...

International study finds no respiratory issues in vapers who were never smokers

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 20th November 2024

Vapers without a history of tobacco smoking may never suffer respiratory issues, according to an international study focusing on e-cig users who have never been regular smokers of cigarettes ...

Global efforts to curb youth vaping ramp up amid health and environment issues

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 14th November 2024

Some governments worldwide are stepping up efforts to curb youth vaping as concerns mount over its health risks and environmental impacts ...

With fewer smokers and new vapers, what’s next for nicotine alternatives?

Written by Freddie Dawson | 3rd September 2024

It’s beginning to look like the well of smokers who have not tried vaping is running dry, and this has dramatic implications for the sector, its approach and the way others will interact with it...

Do lower nicotine content levels in vapes and cigarettes benefit public health?

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 31st July 2024

Lower nicotine content levels make tobacco products less addictive, but in vapes, they may lead users to compensate their intake by increasing the pace and intensity of their puffs, according to a recent study ...

Ten lessons learned over ten years of covering the novel nicotine industry

Written by Barnaby Page | 4th July 2024

In this part of a series of articles celebrating the tenth anniversary of Tamarind Intelligence, our editorial director shares ten things he’s learned about the sector in the last decade ...

Takeaways from this year’s thought-provoking Global Forum on Nicotine

Written by Barnaby Page | 21st June 2024

The Global Forum on Nicotine was in Warsaw again last week, and once again proved to be one of the most thought-provoking events on the tobacco harm reduction calendar ...

Ten landmark events in the modern history of vaping, 2014 to 2024

Written by Freddie Dawson | 20th June 2024

Since the launch of ECigIntelligence in April 2014, the vaping sector has changed to the point it is virtually unrecognisable from its former self. Regulations, perceptions and the major players have also shifted significantly over...

Science-based or science fiction? Can WHO stop kids from getting hooked?

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 6th June 2024

The World Health Organization (WHO) chose to dedicate this year’s World No Tobacco Day to exposing practices used by the tobacco industry to “hook the next generation” into becoming its customers for life ...

Contamination and adulteration of vape products: how serious is the problem?

Written by ECigIntelligence | 27th May 2024

The recent discovery of the illicit animal tranquilliser xylazine in cannabis vapes raises concerns about harmful contaminants. How do these substances end up in vaping products? ...

Players, innovation and regulation: the evolution of e-cigs over the last decade

Written by Freddie Dawson | 9th April 2024

In this part of a series of articles celebrating the tenth anniversary of Tamarind Intelligence, we look at how e-cig devices and the industry have evolved in the past decade ...

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 ...

Can e-cigarettes help reduce tobacco use? WHO needs more vaping data to find out

Written by Freddie Dawson | 25th January 2024

Not enough countries collect data on e-cigarette usage and it's necessary to improve this to better monitor reduction in tobacco use, says the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

An e-cigarette by any other name, and other issues with industry terminology

Written by Barnaby Page | 18th January 2024

Perception is often at least as important as reality in forming policy-makers’ and the public’s opinion where novel nicotine products are concerned, but there’s a persistent problem with terminology ...

Is inactivity in the vape industry to blame for the increase in disposable bans?

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 10th January 2024

The vaping industry could look at increased efforts to crack down on disposable e-cigarettes as its own failure to provide more viable solutions that could have curtailed countries around the globe taking legal actions ...

What’s in store for 2024? A look at expected regulation in the year ahead

Written by Freddie Dawson | 2nd January 2024

Further regulatory restrictions on e-cigarettes are expected, but these will not prevent the global vaping market from continuing to grow in 2024, ECigIntelligence predicts ...

Disposables dominated 2023, with buzz around bans, youth and the environment

Written by Freddie Dawson | 28th December 2023

“Disposables” was the word in vaping in 2023: although they had been building steam prior to this year, it was 2023 that saw multiple elements reach a crescendo ...

E-cig regulation a priority for next year's COP10-MOP3, with focus on youth vaping

Written by ECigIntelligence | 16th November 2023

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 ...

COP10-MOP3 tobacco conferences postponed due to unrest in Panama

Written by ECigIntelligence | 10th November 2023

The world’s major international tobacco control conferences will not take place in Panama this month as anticipated and will be delayed until 2024 ...

Innovation through sharing of vape and HT technologies discussed at GTNF

Written by Freddie Dawson | 13th October 2023

Future innovation in vaping and tobacco alternatives is likely to involve environmental improvements and prevention of youth usage, said speakers at the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum ...

GTNF speakers warn against letting loudest voices drive vaping regulations

Written by Freddie Dawson | 12th October 2023

Public pressure can drive legislators to make populist decisions on nicotine product regulation that are not based on evidence, warned speakers at the recent Global Tobacco & Nicotine Forum (GTNF) in Seoul ...

WHO report says ENDS threaten tobacco control efforts, ‘re-normalise smoking’

Written by Sergi Riudalbas | 4th August 2023

Electronic nicotine delivery systems are threatening to undermine decades of efforts to reduce smoking, according to a new annual report from the World Health Organization on global tobacco control progress ...

Russia turns to disposables, with sales more than trebling since start of 2022

Written by ECigIntelligence | 16th August 2022

Sales of disposable e-cigarettes have soared in Russia over the past year, producing a corresponding boom in revenue ...

Russia backs away from e-cig ban and towards tax to bolster falling revenues

Written by ECigIntelligence | 24th June 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed government priorities and rather than looking to completely ban the sale of vaping products, the Russian authorities are now considering increased e-cigarette taxes instead ...

Health, environment damage: e-cigs and vaping products 'are not the solution'

Written by Freddie Dawson | 3rd June 2022

Next-generation tobacco products such as e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco alternatives are not the solution to damage caused by the tobacco industry to both public health and the environment, according to speakers at a World Health...

The WHO's World No Tobacco Day campaign sparks mixed reactions

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 2nd June 2022

On international World No Tobacco Day vaping industry representatives called out the WHO and governments for not supporting smoking alternatives as a cessation tool, but the campaign was celebrated by many charities and health organisations...

ECigIntelligence’s Hardware Tracker identifies important market trends

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 20th May 2022

A growth in battery power and tank size among disposables headlines three main trends that have impacted the technical features of vape hardware kits sold by online retailers over the past three years. More research...

Vive la Veev – PMI plans more e-cigarette roll-outs after good first quarter results

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 25th April 2022

Philip Morris International (PMI) is continuing to support sales and promotion of its Iqos Veev vaping product, with further market roll-outs planned this year ...

PMI sees bright future for Iqos Veev as it prepares to expand into more markets

Written by ECigIntelligence | 14th February 2022

Philip Morris International (PMI) has commited to continuing to support the sales and promotion of its Veev vaping product, with future expansion into more markets around the world ...

Where do we go from here? How new rules will affect world vape markets

Written by Freddie Dawson | 31st January 2022

Consumers will continue to increasingly spread usage out over different alternative nicotine products, partly driven by further, stricter vaping regulation across the globe throughout 2022, ECigIntelligence predicts ...

INNCO calls for health assessments and user input before flavour bans

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 20th January 2022

INNCO urged policymakers to conduct health impact studies involving consumers and producers if flavour bans are being debated ...

2021 reviewed: false dawn for vaping, or some light showing at the tunnel's end?

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 10th January 2022

Could 2021 be remembered as the year we first started to see some light at the end of the tunnel? Only time will tell for sure, but there were clues ...

COP9 ends with calls to put tobacco-alternatives at centre of 2023 session

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 12th November 2021

The all-online COP9 finished without any major decision, but with calls for serious attention to be given to novel and emerging tobacco products at COP10 in 2023 ...

As COP9 begins, scientists urge WHO to abandon its 'irrational' approach

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 8th November 2021

Experts have urged the parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) to embrace a “more assertive” stance on smoke-free alternatives ...

Vaping experts see integrating science and innovation as the way forward

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 27th September 2021

Representatives of the vaping industry have urged a broader collaboration with scientists and agreed that integrating technological innovations is key to encouraging transition to tobacco alternatives ...

WHO urges governments to impose tough e-cigarette regulation and tax

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 29th July 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a warning about “addictive” e-cigarettes and said they should be strictly regulated and taxed by governments to protect public health ...

WHO anti-tobacco report takes new aim at e-cigarettes and ‘emerging products’

Written by Aidan Semmens | 27th July 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its eighth report on “the global tobacco epidemic”, for the first time presenting facts, figures – and opinion – on new and emerging products such as e-cigarettes ...

Russia takes another step in its plans to tighten vaping regulations

Written by ECigIntelligence | 18th June 2021

The Russian government is planning to prepare a report with proposals to further regulate tobacco products in the country, suggesting that it could tighten the regulations for e-cigarettes and introduce a flavour ban ...

Global flavour development trends

Written by ECigIntelligence | 27th May 2021

ECigIntelligence managing director Tim Phillips shares his insights into flavour developments and restrictions, in a presentation first seen at ENDS Europe online ...

Podcast: Global predictions and analysis of the e-cigarette sector for 2021

Written by ECigIntelligence | 22nd January 2021

Tim Phillips, ECigIntelligence's managing director, joins Jon Bruford to discuss the key developments coming up in 2021 and the drivers that shape the market ...

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

Written by Judit | 18th September 2020

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...

Russia and its Eurasian economic allies eye harmonised vaping rules by 2022

Written by ECigIntelligence | 31st August 2020

A joint regulation of e-cigarettes that will apply across Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan is expected to be adopted by 2022 – but there is some scepticism about the timescale ...

Consumer habits across the UK market

Written by ECigIntelligence | 4th August 2020

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...

Russia adopts first ever federal e-cigarette regulation

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 24th July 2020

Russia has passed the first e-cigarette regulation in the country, which imposes tighter regulations for e-cigs and extending anti-tobacco legislation to e-liquids ...

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

Written by ECigIntelligence | 15th June 2020

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...

Russia's e-cig bill remains on hold amid disagreement among lawmakers

Written by ECigIntelligence | 4th June 2020

A proposal to impose stricter regulations for e-cigarettes in Russia is being reviewed by the government while the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly, has put the process on hold ...

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