FDA announces ANPRM amid youth e-cig flavour concerns

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), concerned about flavours leading youth to start vaping, has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to explore options for regulation ...

Cole-Bishop amendment fails once again to ride in on US spending bill

Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Language changing the “grandfathering date” for vaping products has been dropped from the US Appropriations Bill as the government hurries again to avoid another shutdown ...

Nicotine ‘more dangerous than drink’ according to survey respondents

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 21st March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

Australasia

Europe

India

New Zealand

North America

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United States

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More than half of US consumers wrongly believe that using nicotine every day is more dangerous than drinking every day, according to a new global survey from the Foundation for a Smoke-free World (FSFW) ...

Greece takes protective stance, letting cross-border sales out but not in

Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Greece

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Selling vaping products cross-border from Greece to other EU member states is allowed – provided that country does not prohibit such sales – but no legal trade can come the other way ...

Belgium’s top judges reject bid to overturn online sales ban

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 19th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Belgium

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

In a ruling that will disappoint many in Belgium’s vaping industry, the country’s highest administrative court has refused a request to overturn a ban on online sales of e-cigarette products ...

FDA moves on nicotine levels in combustibles, while leaving e-cigs alone

Written by Barnaby Page || 15th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The US FDA has taken a step closer to regulating nicotine levels in combustible cigarettes, but excluded vapour products from its proposals, even predicting a low-nicotine regime might encourage smokers toward electronic alternatives ...

The good, the bad and the unsure: Europe divided over health benefits of e-cigs

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 15th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

France

Netherlands

Spain

United Kingdom

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

While the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) provides a common regulatory framework for e-cigarettes across the European Union, the attitude of public health authorities still varies widely from one country to another ...

Fears for South African market if e-cigs are brought under tobacco regulation

Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Africa

South Africa

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

There is growing fear in the South African vaping industry that an impending change in the law, bringing e-cigarettes under tobacco regulation, will halt the switch from smoking by making it easier to smoke than to vape ...

Vaping industry hopeful of a fresh start as Italy changes government

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 9th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Europe

Italy

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A new coalition government in Italy has been welcomed as a likely positive change for an e-cigarette industry that has been under great pressure under the country’s outgoing regime ...

Bloomberg vs PMI – a clash of the titans over the future of tobacco alternatives

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 9th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

United States

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The launch of a new anti-tobacco watchdog organisation, STOP, will increase the divide between those who welcome tobacco industry involvement in reduced-risk alternatives and those who want Big Tobacco excluded from the debate ...

US conservatives press for Cole-Bishop amendment in budget package

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 8th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A letter from conservative groups in the US begs Republican leaders to adopt a version of the Cole-Bishop amendment in the final omnibus appropriations package for the fiscal year 2018 ...

Canada’s lawmakers back away from allowing ‘lifestyle-type’ ads for e-cigs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Canada

North America

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Canadian MPs have moved to toughen proposed restrictions on the advertising of e-cigarettes as Canada prepares its first law to regulate the vaping industry at national level ...

Brussels consults again on plans for a European e-cig and HnB tax

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 7th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A new public consultation by the tax authorities in Brussels aims to help set a standard excise duty for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products at European level ...

New and unapproved? FDA inspectors could have plenty to look at

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 7th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

There may be widespread disregard of US FDA rules around the introduction of new vapour products and a new inspection regime may have its hands full, ECigIntelligence research suggests ...

Maverick politicians alone in backing Aussie campaign for legalising e-cigs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 5th March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Australasia

Australia

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A libertarian and a renegade conservative are the only federal politicians in Australia to have publicly backed a national campaign in support of legalising e-cigs ...

Indian state of Bihar bans nicotine-containing e-cigs and e-hookahs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 1st March 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

India

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Bihar has become the latest Indian state to place a blanket ban on all forms of e-cigarettes and related items, joining at least five others ...

FDA chief Gottlieb adopts a balanced approach to e-liquid flavours

Written by Barnaby Page || 27th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

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Regulatory briefing

The US FDA recognises flavoured e-liquids may help encourage smokers to switch to e-cigs, despite its hostility to flavours in most tobacco products, commissioner Scott Gottlieb told the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) ...

FDA publishes requested amendments to PMI’s IQOS application

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 26th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Companies

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Regulatory briefing

The US FDA has made some public amendments to PMI’s reduced risk applications for IQOS and three types of Marlboro HeatSticks products ...

Canada’s health minister supports e-cig advertising ban

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Canada

North America

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The federal health minister for Canada has called for “clear restrictions” on e-cigarette advertising and the need to keep young people from taking up e-cigs. The move is a turnaround from the stance of the previous health minister....

Vape stores in the Philippines face very different futures as local laws vary widely

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

Philippines

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

As a number of e-cigarette regulatory proposals continue to languish in the Philippine’s legislative system, the the island nation is left without any national regulation for vaping products and widely varying local law...

Legalised e-cigs ‘could be worth $150m to Australian convenience stores’

Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Australasia

Australia

Marketing and Retailing

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

If e-cigs were freely available in Australia they could be worth AUD150m a year to the country’s convenience stores, an industry leader has told ECigIntelligence ...

Health coalition calls for Myanmar to introduce e-cig regulation

Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

Myanmar

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A coalition of organisations led by the non-profit People’s Health Foundation (PHF) is calling on the government of Myanmar to regulate e-cigarettes – up to and including a total ban on imports ...

CDC analysis shows US youth choose e-cigs for flavours and family

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 19th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The most common reason that youth used e-cigs in the US in 2016 was that a friend or family member used them, according to information from the National Youth Survey for 2016, analysis of which was recently published...

FDA faces constitutional challenge to deeming rule in several courts at once

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 15th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) has brought a series of suits from vape stores across the US to several federal district courts, alleging that the FDA’s deeming rule violates the US Constitution ...

Senators urge rejection of PMI reduced risk application after TPSAC findings

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 13th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Ten US Senators have urged the FDA to reject PMI's reduced risk application for IQOS following the findings of the independent Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) ...

Italian tax authorities use ‘excessive’ power in clampdown on e-liquid tax avoidance

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 9th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Europe

Italy

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Italian vape organisations have accused the tax authorities of an “excessive” use of power in their enforcement of the tax on e-liquid ...

Is CDC director’s rapid exit a chance to end the ‘war on tobacco’?

Written by Jim Myers || 7th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The abrupt resignation of Brenda Fitzgerald as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could provide the Trump administration with an unexpected opportunity to help settle a question on the agency’s anti-tobacco efforts ...

Public Health England blames the media for giving vaping a bad name

Written by Barnaby Page || 7th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

United Kingdom

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The latest evidence review by Public Health England credits e-cigs with helping 20,000 people a year quit smoking, and blames distorted media reporting for that figure not being a lot higher ...

Of mice and men – and whether e-cig ‘smoke’ may be linked to cancer

Written by Marc Beishon || 6th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United Kingdom

United States

Public Health and Medicine

Regulatory briefing

A widely publicised New York report concludes that e-cig “smoke…may contribute to lung and bladder cancer, as well as heart disease, in humans” – but other scientists question the validity of research carried out on laboratory mice ...

‘Not good enough’ – lung association gives FDA an ‘F’ for tobacco control

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 5th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The US government has been given an ‘F’ grade by the American Lung Association for its federal tobacco regulations and taxation policies, blaming its “partial implementation” of the Tobacco Control Act ...

Spanish health authorities investigate IQOS online ad campaign

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th February 2018 || Marketing & retailing , Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Spain

Companies

Marketing and Retailing

Policy and Politics

Marketing & retailing

Regulatory briefing

Authorities in the Catalonia region of Spain are investigating whether PMI broke Spanish law with a series of online banner advertisements for its IQOS heated tobacco system ...

Will the Hawaiian Senate pass its online sales ban?

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 2nd February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Hawaii

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The Hawaiian senate is considering two bills, which could prohibit online sales of e-cigarette products if passed. One could also subject e-liquids to the same excise tax as tobacco...

Belgium bans vaping by prisoners ‘for security reasons’

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 1st February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Belgium

EU

Europe

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Prisoners in Belgium have been banned “for security reasons” from using e-cigarettes, in a move that could influence authorities in other countries ...

Officials hit more than 200 vape stores in coordinated raids across Malaysia

Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

Malaysia

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A surprise coordinated raid on more than 200 vape stores across Malaysia has left many facing damaging losses, according to the country’s vapour trade association ...

NASEM report – a detailed call for further study of e-cigs and health

Written by Barnaby Page || 30th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A report by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) presents a long list of suggestions for research into the public health consequences of e-cigarettes ...

Innocigs replaces eGo model after German child-proofing problem

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 26th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Germany

Companies

Marketing and Retailing

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

E-cigarette sellers in the EU should put pressure on their Chinese suppliers to improve child-proofing, according to a company which has recently withdrawn one of its products from...

FDA committee rejects two IQOS MRTP claims, approves one

Written by Barnaby Page || 25th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

United States

Companies

Marketing and Retailing

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Agency’s science committee agrees that PMI product decreases exposure to dangerous chemicals, but won’t accept broader claims of long-term risk reduction...

Science panel grills PMI over dual use and menthol in IQOS modified risk hearing

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 25th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Companies

Regulation and Legislation

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Questions over dual use and whether menthol flavours would attract at-risk groups led the start of the long-awaited Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing for Philip Morris International (PMI)’s modified risk claim for its IQOS heated-tobacco product ...

Headline news – and the health debate is on after heavyweight report

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 25th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

An independent report commissioned by the FDA to evaluate the evidence for the health effects of e-cigarettes has come back with a mix of good and bad news for the industry and produced headlines around the US ...

After the shutdown, Cole stays positive on deeming relief

Written by Jim Myers || 24th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Congressman Tom Cole insists he has not given up his effort to bring legislative relief to the e-cigarette industry despite the tribulations of the latest US government shutdown ...

Vape Force One hits the road in pursuit of legalising nicotine e-cigs in Australia

Written by ECigIntelligence || 22nd January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Australasia

Australia

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulatory briefing

An Australian campaign to legalise the domestic sale of nicotine-containing e-liquids in the country faces a difficult challenge as opposing opinions solidify ...

Government shutdown may not halt FDA’s vaping and tobacco operations

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 22nd January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

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 ...

EU’s safety agency gets on board with guidelines for lithium batteries

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 19th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

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 regulatory and executive...

Can biomarkers help science predict long-term health effects of reduced-risk products?

Written by Barnaby Page || 17th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Europe

North America

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

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 ...

New views on nicotine: now the FDA is reconsidering NRT, too

Written by || 16th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

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 – nicotine replacement...

Israel set to tackle e-cig regulation with a clampdown on advertising

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 15th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

Israel

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

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 at retail locations...

Tobacco, vapour and the law – symposium will tackle the big issues

Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

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Regulatory briefing

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 ...

Brussels postpones tax decision on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 12th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Belgium

EU

Europe

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

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 tobacco now ...

Study linking youth vaping with adult smoking gets wide US press coverage

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 11th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulatory briefing

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 ...

A possible route to ‘reduced risk’ status for e-cigs in the EU?

Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

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 medical licensing ...