Pax Labs has faced price gouging problems after mistakes led to insufficient demand. But it anticipates it will have fully fixed the problem by early next year....
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that some unapproved e-cigarettes can be used in scientific research as long as their makers meet the deadlines for...
Barely a year after the Reynolds American takeover of Lorillard, the U.S. tobacco industry may face another upheaval as British American Tobacco (BAT) bids to buy Reynolds...
Recent news reports have lambasted hoverboards over safety concerns - prompting multiple retailers to drop listings. But is the threat over-rated? There are some striking similarities to similar news reports on e-cigarettes....
Citizens of California will on 8th November decide the fate of Proposition 56, which introduces a specific tax on nicotine-containing vape products as part of a broader increase in tobacco...
Proposed new rules intended to ease cross-border trade within the European Union threaten to create a catch-22 situation for e-cigarette retailers. While the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) allows EU member states to ban cross-border...
State legislatures in the U.S. continue to have numerous e-cigarette-related bills placed before them. Totting up the topics of those proposed laws reveals that some issues remain major concerns at state level, while others...
Scientists and researchers have said that anti-smoking charities are acting like the anti-Communist zealots of the 1950s McCarthy era in trying to keep them away from an international conference on tobacco and nicotine. One public-health...
U.S. businesses selling e-cigarettes and other vaping products online can expect to be hard hit by new rules governing the processing of credit card...
A ban on e-cigarette advertising in France has been challenged by an alliance of five pro-e-cig organisations, which plan to take the matter to the country’s highest...
The e-cigarette market in the Netherlands faces a serious challenge adapting to the requirements of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), as small specialist retailers try to cope with advertising restrictions, e-liquid regulations and age...
A new UK government body consultation will look at possibilities for new rules on e-cigarette advertising in the UK including whether limited health claims should be permitted for non-medically licensed e-cigs....
Scottish e-cig brand JAC Vapour is looking to take advantage of the growing support for e-cigarettes from Public Health England (PHE) by running an advertising promotion tied in to a national smoking cessation campaign....
Legislative language that would have changed the so-called grandfathering date on e-cigarettes set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not make it into a must-pass bill to keep the federal government open...
Japan Tobacco (JTI) has ramped up production of its Ploom Tech e-cigarette in preparation for a nationwide launch across Japan, following successful trials in the city of...
Canada looks likely to regulate the sale of e-cigarettes as consumer products this autumn, ending years of uncertainty in which their legality has been...
A bid to change the grandfathering date of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s deeming regulations may not make it into the appropriations bill that faces an imminent deadline in...
Vape stores in the U.S. are observing new age restrictions on e-cigarette purchase more rigorously than mainstream retailers or online e-cig stores, the outcome of a federal crackdown...
A new study published in The BMJ by researchers at University College London tests the contentious view that e-cigs, far from aiding in smoking cessation, can in fact undermine motivation to...
A new study investigating young people’s perceptions of vaping and smoking has generated dramatic media headlines in the UK despite the tentative nature of the research...
The Cochrane systematic review of e-cigarettes and smoking cessation has just been updated, but many may wonder why it has been done now, as there is little new to...
Taiwan may consider partial legalisation of nicotine e-cigs as part of a proposal to close loopholes in current laws, hoping to cut down on youth uptake....
Nicopure has filed a reply to arguments from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that judges should drop a court challenge against the agency's regulations for e-cigarettes....
Nearly all smokers would be better off moving to lower-risk alternatives than giving up nicotine completely; taxing e-cigs has no rational justification; society should be prepared for more non-smokers to take up vaping; and tobacco...
A new study shows that youth e-cig users in the U.S. vape for flavours and not nicotine. The result has serious implications for future policy making decisions and justifications....
Pax Labs has appointed a new chief executive officer (CEO) imported from the online music sector and is considering further international expansion as a way to maintain its ability to innovate in the e-cig sector....
Contents1 News articles2 In-depth reports3 Key facts This page provides an updated repository for all major ECigIntelligence articles, reports and database trackers concerning the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) going back to 4th July 2016. Older...
The EU has begun infringement proceedings against the majority of its member states for either tardy or poor transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into national regulations....
New e-cigarette products could be launched on the French market sooner than expected, as the regulator temporarily trims the standard six-month notification period to three...