Written by David Palacios Rubio | 7th September 2017
The Dutch health ministry is to bring in new regulation of vapour products, including a 10 ml limit on non-nicotine e-liquids and some vaguely worded restrictions on e-cigarette packaging ...
Malaysian e-liquid manufacturers are looking at the European Union and other markets as regulatory uncertainty bites at home – but only the bigger players can afford the costs involved ...
Three new UK studies offer conflicting conclusions on the possible link between young people trying e-cigarettes and those who become smokers – but what does the weight of evidence suggest overall? ...
Australia’s ban on the sale of nicotine e-liquids has led to a black market that damages the health of the very people the law is meant to protect, an official inquiry has heard ...
The e-liquid maker Nicopure Labs has filed an appeal in its lawsuit against the FDA in an on-going legal battle aimed at overturning the deeming regulations ...
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 ...
The World Health Organization says governments should consider banning vaping indoors but use other strategies, such as high taxes on cigarettes, to encourage smokers to switch ...
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has closed what he called “a dangerous loophole” by adding e-cigarettes to a statewide ban on smoking on school premises ...
The Scottish Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has announced a review of evidence on e-cigarettes that could lead to a softening of its professional advice on vaping products ...
The New Zealand government’s plan to create a “pathway” to the legal sale of alternative tobacco products has been broadly welcomed by harm reduction advocates – but with reservations ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 23rd August 2017
Facebook groups, vape stores with websites, and private vaping rooms have all been targeted as officials tell vapers: buy from specialist stores, where products are controlled and safe ...
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has provided further clarity on what is and is not permitted in print media e-cigarette advertising with a ruling against a magazine ad for a vape store ...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched its Glo device in South Korea, joining Philip Morris International (PMI)'s iQOS in what could be a lively market for heated tobacco products ...
A group of public health professionals in New Zealand are recommending a two-pronged approach to cutting smoking – action against combustible cigarettes combined with support for vaping ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 11th August 2017
Slovenia was among the last few countries in the EU to transpose the TPD into national law, and it is not yet fully clear how a tough regulatory regime will play out in practice ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 10th August 2017
Researchers in Croatia have found that more than half the e-liquids they tested exceeded the maximum nicotine concentration level laid down by the European TPD ...
Avail Vapor is to manufacture and sell e-liquids for Charlie’s Chalk Dust, a partnership that could signal future policy for the company and perhaps the wider e-cigarette industry ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 10th August 2017
Increasing demand for smoke-free products is leading many tobacco companies to open new facilities for heat-not-burn manufacturing – in some cases, even replacing...
Traffic to the major online e-cigarette retailers in the US has become more concentrated on just a few websites, revealing an apparent settling among the market...
PMI has denied allegations that it orchestrated a campaign to submit pro-vaping testimonies to a government consultation on e-cigarette regulation in Australia ...
New Zealand is to introduce an amendment to existing laws that will enable the legal introduction of alternative tobacco products such as snus and heat-not-burn devices ...
More than a tenth of Italians trying to give up smoking (10.7%) use e-cigarettes to help them – more than any other cessation aids – but the vast majority use no aid at all ...
2017 has already been a significant year in the short history of e-cigarettes – and there is more to come in the remaining five months of a the year ...
A move by the US FDA to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes to non-addictive levels could encourage Big Tobacco to put yet more effort into alternatives ...
The US vapour industry has welcomed last week’s unexpected announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it would extend some compliance deadlines by nearly four...
The bipartisan duo attempting to modify the FDA’s deeming regulations in the US Congress reacted with cautious optimism to commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s sweeping new policy plan, which many see as a nod for safer alternatives...
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), appeared on Friday to go further than any federal official – or most politicians – previously had in supporting alternative nicotine products for harm...
The US Food and Drug Administration has taken a major step toward easing the demands of the deeming regulations, giving e-cig manufacturers nearly an extra four years to submit their...
E-cigs have made a substantial contribution to improving quit rates in the US, according to a new study which provides fresh ammunition to their supporters in the public-health...
The US Food and Drug Administration's deeming of e-cigarettes as tobacco products did not exceed the agency's authority, a federal district court has...
The industry’s hopes that a US federal spending bill would reduce the impact of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) deeming regulations were disappointed this week when a Senate committee approved a version that makes...
Iowa’s attorney general, Tom Miller, has written to FDA chief Scott Gottlieb urging him to ease the regulatory burden on the e-cig industry – in direct opposition to some of his Democratic Party colleagues ...
The $49.4bn takeover of Reynolds American by British American Tobacco (BAT) is set to go through next week after being approved by shareholders of both...
UK Department of Health wants e-cigs excluded from smoke-free policies, a clear path to medical licensing – and maybe even a review of Britain’s TPD...
Legislation giving the e-cigarette industry crucial relief from what it considers onerous provisions in the FDA’s deeming regulation survived a Democratic bid to kill it and now is ready for a floor vote in the...
A proposal by Poland’s Ministry of Finance to introduce a PLN0.7 (€0.17) per ml excise tax on e-liquids faces fierce opposition from critics who say it would destroy the legal e-cig market in the country...
Duncan Hunter, the vaping congressman, has failed in a theatrical bid to halt a move that would enshrine in law the existing ban on the use of e-cigarettes on aircraft ...
The Austrian e-cigarette company Von Erl has gone into what it describes as a partnership with Imperial Brands subsidiary Fontem Ventures, the makers of blu, in the hope of boosting its international expansion ...