An Australian campaign to legalise the domestic sale of nicotine-containing e-liquids in the country faces a difficult challenge as opposing opinions solidify ...
FDA oversight of the tobacco and e-cig industry looks likely to be virtually unaffected by the shutdown of US government functions as it continues to operate on fees paid by the industry ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 19th January 2018
As the debate on the safety of lithium batteries continues, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published guidelines and recommendations about the carriage of e-cig batteries on flights.
The agency of the European Union with...
A new analysis of smoking’s effects on the human body, undertaken by scientists associated with PMI, illustrates some of the difficulties in establishing whether an alternative nicotine product really reduces risk ...
As the US FDA gets to grips with its new focus on nicotine as a single marketplace, it is planning to take a fresh look at one of the longest-established non-combustible forms of the substance...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 15th January 2018
Israel is in the process of taking a new approach to the advertising of new tobacco-related products, with a likely ban on all advertising of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products anywhere but in print and...
ECigIntelligence managing director Tim Phillips will be among speakers at a US symposium next month on vapour, tobacco and the law, including topics such as taxation, intellectual property and advertising ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 12th January 2018
The European Commission has said it will review the future tax situation of e-cigarettes and heated-tobacco products in 2019, and will not propose a revision of the Directive 2011/64/EU on excise duty applied to manufactured...
A widely publicised report by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco claims to show that vaping leads young people in the US to smoking ...
While all but one of the EU’s member states have interpreted the TPD as banning all claims of health benefits from e-cigarettes, there may be scope for a “reduced risk” classification without the need of...
While Australian regulation remains firm in its resistance to e-cigarettes, a more conciliatory approach in New Zealand is leading to a divergence between the two markets ...
The popularity of shake and vape – adding nicotine shots to nicotine-free e-liquids – is increasing throughout Europe, as detailed in an ECigIntelligence report into the market in Germany ...
A clinical trial among homeless people in Canada raises an intriguing question: could governments supply e-cigarettes free as a public health tool? And indeed, should they? ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 8th January 2018
Health ministers of Europe’s Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have signed a joint memorandum of intent to share “strong policies” on e-cigarette trade and usage ...
As the UK heads towards the exit door from Europe, the Westminster government remains responsible for the implementation of the TPD across the country – but Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have scope to...
An ECigIntelligence report considers the impact of the internet’s mega-retailers and the various ways they negotiate regulations which vary in detail and severity from country to country ...
ECigIntelligence’s review of the year gone by reflects the big stories of the e-cigarette world in 2017, the trends in regulation, the developing and diverging markets, the science and innovation, and peers into the crystal...
US Representative Tom Cole is still hoping his bid to bring relief to the e-cigarette industry will make it into a major federal spending bill and onto President Trump’s desk ...
Opinions on tobacco are strongly coloured by political orientation, new European research suggests – while a US study finds it also affects whether people trust industry or health experts more ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 21st December 2017
Poland’s parliament, the Sejm, has confirmed a tax on e-liquids – at a level below the finance ministry’s original proposal but still considerably higher than the vaping industry in the country had hoped ...
The switchback ride of Italian e-cigarette regulation continued this week with success in the Chamber of Deputies of a move to limit some of the damaging effects of the recent Vicari amendment ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 19th December 2017
Tunisian customs officers have confiscated vaping material – including e-cigarette devices, accessories, bases and aromas – that were intended to be sold in some of the country’s 30 vape stores ...
A rigorous anti-tobacco regime should come first before e-cigarettes are promoted for harm reduction, delegates at a tobacco control conference in Germany were told ...
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease has called for the advertising and indoor use of heat-not-burn (HnB) products to be banned until sufficient independent research has been conducted to confirm their safety ...
R. J. Reynolds has submitted modified risk tobacco product applications (MRTPAs) to the US FDA for six forms of its Camel Snus product, which it is seeking to market as reducing the risk of specific...
An Ontario law which will impose further restrictions on e-cigarettes in the Canadian province – notably a rather vaguely worded ban on flavours – has received royal assent ...
The UK government committee which this month concluded that heat-not-burn products are safer than combustibles now wants to compare them to e-cigarettes ...
E-cigarette makers seeking a medical licence in Britain should compare their products to existing, authorised types of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), the regulator has advised ...
A proposed amendment to Taiwanese law would impose a total ban on the manufacture, importation, sale or advertising of all e-cigarette products, closing down entirely a business that currently supports an estimated 200,000 vapers ...
Vaping advocates in the Philippines are keen to encourage considerate and responsible use of e-cigarettes, including not vaping where smoking is not allowed, in the hope of forestalling potential tough regulation ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 14th December 2017
The Swiss Federal Council has put forward a second draft of its proposed Tobacco Act, which aims specifically to regulate e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn (HnB) devices ...
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 11th December 2017
Online sales of nicotine-containing e-cigarette products have been banned in Italy following the adoption by the Chamber of Deputies of the so-called Vicari Amendment ...
Researchers in Italy have reported on what is a holy grail in e-cigarette studies – a four-year observation of the health effects on daily vapers who have never smoked ...
Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission has unanimously approved a proposal by a former state senator to ban vaping in enclosed workplaces across the state ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 6th December 2017
Switzerland is about to take another step on the road towards legalising nicotine e-cigs – but it’s a long, slow road that could lead to tough regulation ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the deadline for comments on Philip Morris International’s (PMI’s) modified risk tobacco product application (MRTPA) for its IQOS heated tobacco device and Heatstick...
Totally Wicked has decided to not close its business in the US, following the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to postpone important compliance...
A new website aiming to break into the British e-cigarette market with express deliveries has reached the halfway point in its crowd-funding round with under a month to go. Clouder – a UK-based third-party online...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 2nd December 2017
Tighter regulation “is on the way” for e-cigs, according to the European Commission’s commissioner for health and food safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, who sees “possibilities” for “stronger regulation” to “stop advertising and online sales” ...
The British Medical Association – the doctors’ trade union – has dropped its opposition to e-cigarettes and urged its members to recommend vaping as a means to quit smoking ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 29th November 2017
Sweden is to join its Scandinavian neighbours Finland and Denmark in adding vaping to its ban on smoking in a variety of public places. The country is also preparing to tax e-liquids, with or without...
Deep social inequalities among the smoking population have long been recognised; the question now is whether e-cigarettes can help to correct them, or whether they may even widen the health gap ...
A report by the US Fire Administration, published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, concludes: “The combination of an electronic cigarette and a lithium-ion battery is a new and unique hazard” ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 27th November 2017
The European Commission is considering whether to propose an EU-wide tax on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, but may choose not to do so for now, following a public consultation ...
New meta-analyses showing e-cigarettes as positive tools for smoking cessation are lacking – and that comes down to just one person in one controlled trial, according to an expert on health research ...
The head of Britain’s committee looking into the science behind e-cigarettes has confirmed his personal sympathy with vaping but maintains that he must focus on evidence and...
Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, the controversial research endowment fund initially endowed for $1bn by Philip Morris International (PMI), has committed to instituting “almost all” good-governance suggestions put to it by harm reduction...
How has regulation in Europe affected e-cigarette markets? Tim Phillips of ECigIntelligence gave his views to an audience of industry insiders in London ...