Infographics

Italy: a market overview of novel nicotine products

Written by Eva Antal | 10th December 2021

This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in Italy ...

Blogs

Could cocaine vapes be a smart new way to crack an old addiction problem?

Written by Aidan Semmens | 8th December 2021

It may have originated as an alternative means of administering nicotine, avoiding the dangers of smoking, but vaping technology has many other potential uses – most notably for the delivery of other kinds of drug...

Blogs

Survey of MEPs’ views provides possible clues to the likely direction of TPD3

Written by Barnaby Page | 2nd December 2021

Sooner or later the EU will have a new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), and one of the big questions will be how it treats new product categories which barely existed at the time of TPD2...

News analysis

New year resolutions: countries to watch for budgets and vaping taxes in 2022

Written by ECigIntelligence | 1st December 2021

Governments worldwide are presenting their budget bills for 2022, with some of them proposing changes in the tax regimes applied to vaping products ...

News analysis

NICE advice says smokers should ‘stop completely’ – and then quit e-cigs too

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 30th November 2021

The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new recommendations on how to help promote quitting smoking, and how to introduce tools such as e-cigarettes into conversations with smokers ...

Regulatory reports Topic regulatory reports

How have MEPs changed in their views about new nicotine products?

Written by ECigIntelligence | 30th November 2021

We carried out a second survey of MEPs, following a similar survey in 2020, to find out how their views on new nicotine products, namely e-cigarettes (vaping), heated tobacco and nicotine pouches, have changed ...

Market reports Topic market reports

A market snapshot of ‘novel nicotine products’ in the European Union

Written by ECigIntelligence | 30th November 2021

The use of traditional tobacco products has been in decline across the EU in recent decades. We conducted a recent study to gauge the economic impact of e-cigarettes and novel nicotine products in Europe ...

Blogs

What lies behind Filipino health officials’ spat with the country’s COP9 delegation?

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 24th November 2021

Conflict between public health concerns and political-economic interests seems to be the main reason behind an internal dispute between the Philippine delegation to COP9 and officials at the country’s Department of Health ...

News analysis

Anti-smoking groups welcome appeal court ruling on Quebec’s Tobacco Act

Written by ECigIntelligence | 23rd November 2021

Canadian anti-smoking groups have applauded the decision by Quebec’s Court of Appeal to overturn a lower court judgement that struck down parts of a provincial law putting vaping products under tobacco regulations ...

Blogs

Will Califf and the Biden administration really heed the science on e-cigarettes?

Written by Aidan Semmens | 18th November 2021

Robert Califf, US president Joe Biden’s choice to take up leadership of the FDA again, has unfinished business with the agency – and with e-cigarettes in particular ...

News analysis

Imperial remains bullish despite drop in revenue from next generation products

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 16th November 2021

Imperial Brands registered a dip in revenues from its next generation products (NGP) portfolio but said it looks forward to expanding product trials in new countries and consolidating European and US markets ...

Blogs

The influencer and the e-cig – a moral tale for our rapidly changing times

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 10th November 2021

The misleading advertising on social media of tobacco alternatives such as e-cigarettes has become a critical concern of public health groups and some governments around the world ...

News analysis

‘Only tobacco firms will be able to take advantage of UK medical licensing’

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 9th November 2021

Some manufacturers may struggle to overcome certain regulatory hurdles to licensing e-cigarettes in the UK as medical products – leaving the field to tobacco companies – experts warn ...

News analysis

Swiss parliament adopts youth sales ban, advertising and packaging restrictions

Written by ECigIntelligence | 4th November 2021

The Swiss Federal Assembly has adopted a longstanding bill equating e-cigarettes with traditional tobacco, despite divisions between political parties over the right approach to tobacco alternatives ...

Blogs

While WHO won’t even talk about them, UK prepares for e-cigs on prescription

Written by Aidan Semmens | 4th November 2021

The timing, one clear week before the opening of COP9, the latest (virtual) gathering of the parties to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), was interesting ...

News analysis

Delaying COP9 talks on novel products ‘may damage tobacco control’, warns EU

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 29th October 2021

European countries have publicly expressed disagreement with the World Health Organization (WHO)’s decision to postpone discussions of novel tobacco products, keeping them out of the upcoming COP9 ...

Blogs

A regulatory gulf is set to open between neighbours Shenzhen and Hong Kong

Written by Aidan Semmens | 28th October 2021

It’s about 19 miles from downtown Shenzhen to the centre of Hong Kong as the crow flies, but in e-cigarette terms the distance between them is huge and about to get bigger ...

Blogs

An ‘epidemic’ of double-think among the anti-vaping brigade – and not just in US

Written by Aidan Semmens | 21st October 2021

Public handwringing about the alleged “epidemic” of youth vaping has become tantamount to an epidemic itself – and and here’s a striking example from Bangladesh ...

News analysis

Vaping products make up 36% of patent applications for alternatives to smoking

Written by ECigIntelligence | 18th October 2021

Patents for tobacco alternatives have been booming in recent times as tobacco companies position themselves as contributors to a smoke-free world, with a 9.1% year-on-year increase in patents related to vaping ...

News analysis

Turning Point Brands seeks emergency court ruling against FDA denial order

Written by ECigIntelligence | 8th October 2021

Turning Point Brands (TPB) is challenging in court the Marketing Denial Order (MDO) issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to its premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) as it considers the decision “arbitrary”...