News analysis for professionals in the vaping industry

'Beating Cancer' report becomes official EU policy with huge Parliament backing

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 21st February 2022

The European Parliament has adopted the BECA report – the first time a European institution has formally acknowledged reduced risk products could play a role in smoking cessation – with some caveats ... ...

New FDA commissioner Califf urged to tackle vaping and synthetic nicotine

Written by ECigIntelligence | 21st February 2022

The US Senate has confirmed Robert Califf to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on a tight vote ...

US menthol cigarette ban is imminent – so what does that mean for e-cigs?

Written by ECigIntelligence | 17th February 2022

Flavours for other tobacco products will almost certainly become the major topic once a US ban on menthol cigarettes and flavoured cigars goes through ...

Norway's new rules should allow nicotine e-liquids – but it won't be plain sailing

Written by ECigIntelligence | 17th February 2022

Changes to Norway’s Tobacco Act should allow the sale of nicotine-containing e-liquids and devices but strict permit rules could effectively prohibit the 70 or so domestic retailers from taking advantage ...

Ban on e-cigarette flavours 'plays into the hands of Big Tobacco', says Lithuanian MP

Written by ECigIntelligence | 16th February 2022

A Lithuanian lawmaker has criticised the country’s parliament for voting to enact a wide-ranging flavour ban rather than a more targeted, nuanced alternative ...

Good Vuse for BAT as vapour growth helps offset dip in overall revenue

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 14th February 2022

Vuse and vapour were the primary driver of a 42.4% year-on-year increase in British American Tobacco (BAT)’s new category portfolio revenue, according to the company’s latest results ...

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 ...

European Parliament prepares for first vote on anti-cancer recommendations

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 8th February 2022

The European Parliament’s first debate on the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA)’s report into how to strengthen Europe’s fight against cancer will take place on 15th February ...

Survey finds growing number of English authorities offer e-cigarettes to smokers

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 7th February 2022

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of local authorities in England offering e-cigarettes to smokers in a bid to help them quit smoking, according to a new survey ...

Philippine physicians lobby president Duterte to veto consolidated vaping bill

Written by ECigIntelligence | 3rd February 2022

The Philippine College of Physicians is lobbying against a bill to regulate vaping and novel tobacco products. They object to a lower age limit and the removal of flavour restrictions ...

Israel applies its first tax on e-cigarettes with duty rates approved retroactively

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 3rd February 2022

Israel’s parliamentary finance committee has finally and retroactively approved the duty rates on vaping products in its first ever e-cigarette tax, that was initially passed in November ...

French public health council reverses its endorsement of vaping to quit smoking

Written by ECigIntelligence | 2nd February 2022

France’s High Council for Public Health has revised its 2016 opinion on e-cigarettes, now saying there is not sufficient evidence to recommend vaping for smoking cessation ...

Export expert outlines post-Brexit tips for moving goods into the UK or Europe

Written by Lorraine Mullaney | 2nd February 2022

Andy Hooper, CEO of Global E-Commerce Experts, provides tips for companies wishing to export into Europe. He'll expand on this in a talk at White Label World Expo in London on 2nd and 3rd March...

Altria keeps fingers crossed on Juul PMTA but 'will not invest further in vaping'

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 1st February 2022

US tobacco giant Altria has announced that it will not invest any further in the vapour category for the foreseeable future ...

Taiwanese majority backs e-cigarette ban that would leave HnB untouched

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 1st February 2022

The majority of people in Taiwan support proposals that will likely strengthen bans on vaping but continue to allow heated tobacco products in the country ...

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 ...

Spanish medical associations come out against e-cigs in response to tax talks

Written by ECigIntelligence | 28th January 2022

Medical societies in Spain have confirmed their strong stance against e-cigarettes as the government consults on potential restrictions and taxes on vapour products ...

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 ...

Canadian e-cig industry ready to fight 'existential threat' of federal flavour ban

Written by ECigIntelligence | 25th January 2022

Leaders of Canada’s vaping industry are preparing to challenge a federal government proposal to restrict flavoured e-cigarette products which they fear would devastate the industry in the country ...

Colorado to consider flavour ban to reduce youth e-cig consumption

Written by ECigIntelligence | 21st January 2022

Lawmakers in Colorado will soon be considering a new bill that would ban the sale of all flavoured tobacco products. The aim of the new law would be to curb the consumption of e-cigarettes by youth ...

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 ...

Robert Califf's FDA nomination is approved at committee stage

Written by ECigIntelligence | 19th January 2022

Califf’s bid to be the first permanent FDA leader under president Joe Biden comes amid ongoing calls by politicians for more regulation of tobacco and the cigarette industry ...

Independent study confirms previous findings over smoke and vapour toxicity

Written by ECigIntelligence | 14th January 2022

A new paper successfully replicates three key studies comparing the toxicity of cigarette smoke and e-cigarette vapour on lung tissues ...

Global Trends survey details slowdown in growth of worldwide vaping market

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 12th January 2022

Vaping products have continued to take a share of the worldwide retail market away from smokable tobacco over the past three years, with sales of combustible cigarettes declining by 5% – but the rate of...

Italian vape trade fears the possible consequences as tax on e-liquids goes up

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 11th January 2022

Tax on vaping products in Italy went up at the start of the year after the Chamber of Deputies passed the 2022 Budget on 30th December ...

Wales remains vague on vaping as it plans a route to a smoke-free future

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 10th January 2022

The Welsh government has launched a public consultation over its long-term tobacco control strategy ...

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 ...

Study finds TikTok videos portray e-cigs positively, calling for further restrictions

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 7th January 2022

A study has warned about “significant exposure” of Generation Z teens to videos glamorising vaping on social media platform TikTok and called for “effective age restrictions” to avoid it ...

Study finds flavours draw young people to e-cigs, but no onward link to smoking

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 5th January 2022

A new study has concluded that although flavours are an “important motivator” for e-cigarette uptake among young people, there is no evidence to associate them with a move to smoking tobacco ...

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 ...

Public health professor brands Taipei's
e-cigarette ban 'unfair' and 'senseless'

Written by ECigIntelligence | 27th December 2021

A new blanket ban in Taiwan’s capital on the sale and import of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products is heavy-handed and nonsensical, a public health expert at the city's medical university says ...

Spain set to tax e-cigarettes and impose tobacco advertising and usage rules

Written by ECigIntelligence | 21st December 2021

The Spanish government is working on a regulation to impose further restrictions on e-cigarettes and place an excise duty on them to come into force by 2023 ...

Amendment to the Italian budget aims to soften tax increase on e-cigs from 2022

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 17th December 2021

The Lega party, part of the ruling coalition in Italy, has tabled an amendment to the Budget Bill 2022 aiming to increase the e-liquid excise duty each year until 2023 but with lower rates than...

US senators scrub federal tax scheme for e-cigarettes from Biden’s spending bill

Written by ECigIntelligence | 14th December 2021

The US Senate Finance Committee has made “targeted improvements” to president Joe Biden’s $2tn social spending package – including removing the proposal of a federal tax on tobacco alternatives ...

New Zealand hatches fresh plan after admitting it won't hit smoke-free target

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 13th December 2021

New Zealand’s government has released a new plan setting out a series of policies to reach its “bold” ambition of lowering the smoking rate to 5%, including making traditional tobacco “less available” than vaping products...

MEPs give green light to cancer report amid uncertainty over future of flavours

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 10th December 2021

The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer gave the green light on 9th December to a cancer report that urges the Commission to assess a ban on selected flavours in upcoming regulations ...

UK's public health establishment mostly welcomes NICE guidance on e-cigs

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 9th December 2021

The British public health sector has broadly welcomed the updated guidance from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence...

RLX blames 'volatile market' for what it expects to be a temporary revenue drop

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 7th December 2021

RLX Technology saw a drop of 34% in its net revenue for the third quarter of the year but has expressed optimism that this will be a temporary reversal ...

MEPs to soften demands on EU blanket flavour ban to just those targeting minors

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 3rd December 2021

The final report of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) is expected to suggest a ban on selected flavours ...

Europe's e-cig markets are set to grow by 29% by 2025 as smoking declines faster

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 3rd December 2021

The decline in the use of traditional tobacco products across Europe is expected to accelerate in the next four years, while vape sales continue to grow in the five largest EU markets – France, Germany,...

New year resolutions: countries to watch for budgets and vaping taxes in 2022

Written by ECigIntelligence | 1st December 2021

Governments worldwide are presenting their budget bills for 2022, with some of them proposing changes in the tax regimes applied to vaping products ...

NICE advice says smokers should 'stop completely' – and then quit e-cigs too

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 30th November 2021

The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new recommendations on how to help promote quitting smoking, and how to introduce tools such as e-cigarettes into conversations with smokers ...

China brings e-cigarettes under the national Tobacco Monopoly Law

Written by ECigIntelligence | 29th November 2021

Li Keqiang, premier of the State Council of China, has approved with immediate effect an addition to the Tobacco Monopoly Law, clarifying what has been a grey area surrounding the regulation of e-cigarettes ...

Company goes to Supreme Court after judge rejects stay of US FDA denial order

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 26th November 2021

Breeze Smoke is asking the US Supreme Court to stay a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marketing denial order (MDO) after the Court of Appeals rejected such motion ...

Israel implements instant new e-cig tax to fight against 'the harms of smoking'

Written by ECigIntelligence | 24th November 2021

E-cigarette retailers in Israel are facing a new tax similar to the existing one on traditional tobacco products. The tax on all e-cigarettes was imposed this week by order and came into effect immediately ...

Anti-smoking groups welcome appeal court ruling on Quebec's Tobacco Act

Written by ECigIntelligence | 23rd November 2021

Canadian anti-smoking groups have applauded the decision by Quebec’s Court of Appeal to overturn a lower court judgement that struck down parts of a provincial law putting vaping products under tobacco regulations ...

US House passes new federal vaping tax – now Biden's big bill heads to the Senate

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 22nd November 2021

The US House of Representatives has passed president Joe Biden's $1.75tn social spending bill, including a new federal tax on nicotine vaping products ...

North Carolina launches a lawsuit against the founders of Juul Labs

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 19th November 2021

Less than six months after striking a $40m settlement with Juul Labs, the state of North Carolina is suing its founders amid ongoing concerns on “kid-friendly flavors, youth marketing, and poor age verification” ...

MPs urge UK government to combat 'misinformation' and support vaping

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 18th November 2021

MPs have called on the UK government to take the forthcoming Tobacco Control Plan as an opportunity to tackle misinformation around tobacco alternatives and encourage switching to less harmful products ...

US Congress prepares to vote on tax to make vaping as expensive as smoking

Written by ECigIntelligence | 17th November 2021

A revised draft of US president Joe Biden’s $1.75tn Build Back Better Bill, which includes a new federal tax on e-cigarettes, is expected to be voted on by the House of Representatives this week ...

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