Market and regulatory data for the vapour sector in Germany

German talks prepare for outdoor ad ban – but will it include e-cigs?

Written by ECigIntelligence | 18th October 2019

A number of MPs from Germany’s ruling coalition have emphasised their willingness to reach agreement quickly on a federal ban on outdoor advertising of tobacco products ...

German court confirms marketing ban on Juul over missing waste symbol

Written by ECigIntelligence | 10th October 2019

The district court in the western German city of Düsseldorf has upheld a ruling temporarily banning Juul Labs from marketing its flavoured pods in the country ...

‘Gateway’ fear as Germany’s second city reveals rise in teenage vaping

Written by ECigIntelligence | 16th September 2019

Figures released by the Hamburg city council show an increase in vaping by minors – and come with a warning by the researchers about the possibility of youth vaping leading on to smoking ...

Scientific e-cig review eagerly awaited by German government

Written by ECigIntelligence | 9th September 2019

German scientists are reviewing the current state of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco devices for a forthcoming report expected to help the federal government shape future legislative approaches ...

Myblu takes over Germany’s busiest station, with new ad limits ahead

Written by ECigIntelligence | 23rd August 2019

Huge ads for Myblu are turning heads at Hamburg central railway station – before a pending update of German advertising law that could spell an end to such campaigns ...

More e-cig stores open in Germany to meet rising number of vapers

Written by ECigIntelligence | 2nd July 2019

The number of vape stores in Germany continues to rise as the vaping population increases and customers move offline to shop in retail outlets, analysis by ECigIntelligence reveals ...

German court issues injunctions against Amazon over e-cig sales

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 28th February 2019

The Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main in Germany has awarded two injunctions against the sale and advertising of e-cigarettes through online retailer Amazon, the law magazine LHR reports ...

Party puts German notification question on the political agenda

Written by Berta Camps Bisbal | 14th February 2019

A controversy over the way the six-month delay between notification and placing an e-cigarette product on the market is enforced in Germany has been brought into the political arena by a parliamentary question ...

BAT acquires Germany’s biggest vape store chain, Highendsmoke

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 26th November 2018

British American Tobacco (BAT) has acquired the German company Quantus, which operates a chain of more than 80 vape stores across the country under the name Highendsmoke ...

ECigIntelligence benchmarks an ever more complex world for you

Written by ECigIntelligence | 15th October 2018

Let ECigIntelligence keep you up-to-date on prices and other retail information on the rapidly expanding range of vaping products and brands sold by the leading online retailers around the world ...

Kindergarten tots to test if e-cigs are up to German child-proof standard

Written by ECigIntelligence | 8th November 2017

Pre-school children will be given e-cigarettes to play with and try to switch on as German authorities work to establish a national standard for child-proofing the products ...

German retailer ordered to stop selling eGo model ‘unsafe for children’

Written by ECigIntelligence | 16th October 2017

A German retailer has been ordered to stop selling a Joyetech eGo model on the grounds that its screw-top is not child-proof, and has warned that a national ban could follow ...

Supreme court decides Germany’s ban on tobacco ads includes the web

Written by ECigIntelligence | 9th October 2017

A decision by Germany’s highest law court has made it clear that the ban on advertising tobacco products – which includes nicotine-containing e-cigarettes – extends to the internet ...

Germans hear it officially: e-cigs are ‘significantly’ safer than tobacco

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 31st August 2017

A study for the German government has concluded that “e-cigarettes are significantly less harmful than tobacco”, but adds a warning that the long-term effects remain unknown ...

German court rules against French exporters for TPD non-compliance

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 8th March 2017

A German court has ordered three French companies to stop selling e-cigarette products that do not conform with packaging...

Heart and lung trial will help doctors understand e-cig effects

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 20th December 2016

While few European medical bodies have provided guidance on e-cigarettes for general practitioners, the British Heart Foundation is hoping to fill that gap in the UK through a new...

France reduces TPD notification fees and relaxes calendar

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 17th December 2016

France says it has reduced manufacturers’ notification costs for new vaping products. Manufacturers will now need to pay just €295, instead of the €550 that was set when the country transposed the TPD in...

ISO to start work on international e-cigarette standard in October

Written by Freddie Dawson | 25th April 2016

The first meeting of an ISO standards committee covering e-cigarettes will take place on 24th October in Osaka,...

E-liquid with nicotine is illegal, German supreme court decides

Written by Barnaby Page | 11th February 2016

E-liquid with nicotine is illegal in Germany, the supreme court has ruled, because it also contains other substances that the law does not allow to be mixed with tobacco...

Germany to prohibit menthol, many other e-liquid flavours

Written by Barnaby Page | 21st January 2016

Germany is to ban menthol e-liquid as well as many other flavours when it transposes the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive...

France, Germany move forward on TPD transposition

Written by Barnaby Page | 20th December 2015

France’s National Assembly has approved legislation that will enable the government to transpose the TPD by decree, and Germany has also published drafts of its proposed TPD...

Germany tackles under-age sales; still quiet on TPD

Written by Barnaby Page | 16th July 2015

Germany, one of the last major European nations to leave under-age purchase of e-cigarettes unregulated, has acted to fill that gap with the introduction of draft...

Infographic: comparing e-cig and tobacco prices in Europe

Written by Barnaby Page | 16th April 2015

How do the costs of vaping and smoking compare around Europe? Our data shows the typical extra cost of a pack of cigarettes, compared with 10ml of e-liquid, in major European...

Are headline-hungry publicists to blame for e-cig health scares?

Written by Marc Beishon | 17th February 2015

A flurry of health scares about vaping in the mainstream media has seemed to gather force in recent months. But they do not always accurately represent the...

E-cig industry “should design products and packs better”

Written by Barnaby Page | 11th December 2014

E-cig brands and manufacturers should pay more attention to product design, all the way from components to packaging, an industry conference was told this...

E-liquid vapour “not acutely dangerous to lungs”, tests find

Written by Barnaby Page | 8th December 2014

E-liquid has no short-term deleterious effect on human lung cells, according to a German e-cig manufacturer which commissioned research comparing the vapour of nicotine-containing liquid with tobacco...

Lorillard, Zippo go to UK court in feud over Blu brand name

Written by Freddie Dawson | 5th September 2014

Tobacco giant Lorillard has filed an injunction in the UK courts against Zippo Manufacturing, the legendary producer of lighters, seeking to protect its Blu e-cigarette trademarks in...

Blu e-cig could be confused with Zippo lighter, says court

Written by Freddie Dawson | 21st August 2014

Zippo Manufacturing, maker of the famous cigarette lighter, has won a round in its worldwide legal dispute over the use of the brand name Blu – also employed by Lorillard for its market-leading...

Suicide attempt may heighten debate on e-liquid safety

Written by Barnaby Page | 2nd August 2014

A German man’s attempt to kill himself by ingesting e-liquid could add to the clamour for regulating the availability, concentration, and packaging of nicotine-containing fluid on safety...

Report: European e-cig market could be worth more than $2bn

Written by Barnaby Page | 1st April 2014

The European e-cigarette market could be worth more than $2bn, according to a new report from...

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