FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMEPs lack knowledge on new nicotine products, survey shows Members of the European Parliament are less aware of key issues surrounding new nicotine products than in previous years, despite being asked to...
Is Dave Dobbins’s switch from COO of the Truth Initiative to a role with a tobacco company a case of gamekeeper turned poacher – or is there another interpretation we can put on it? ...
So much attention is given to the edicts of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it’s easy to forget individual states – not to mention cities – can also have a big impact...
Written by Fernanda Tucunduva | 14th February 2023
Germany could end up lobbying for an EU-wide ban on disposable e-cigarettes if the government follows through on a Bavarian initiative which has rapidly gained support from other states ...
While e-cigs may or may not be on balance a good thing for humans, it’s hard to see the boom in disposables as anything other than a sore point for the planet ...
Flavours continue to be the main target of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US when it comes to novel nicotine products, it seems – which could give heated tobacco an advantage over...
After years of political debate, Indonesia is finally making progress towards regulating e-cigarettes as well as heated tobacco products, which are regulated the same in the country ...
The Netherlands, usually considered quite permissive with a relatively laissez-faire attitude, is employing stricter flavour bans in an attempt to curb youth vaping ...
ECigIntelligence predicted a year ago that increasing restrictions and taxes on vaping products would drive more users to other tobacco alternatives in 2022. And it does appear that this has been the case ...
The number of companies involved in the Chinese vaping market may be far lower than previously thought, with some having left the market and others never having been active at all ...
There remains a worryingly large amount of research on vaping which makes casual, almost always negative, assumptions...and the occasional item which is so faulty it should never have been published at all ...
There was a sharp rise in the number of daily vapers in Britain between 2020 and 2021 – particularly among men aged 25-34 – according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Recent figures show young US adults are smoking less tobacco and using more cannabis – but is this cause-and-effect, and if so, where does vaping fit into the picture? ...
Disposables and youth vaping are likely to be the major themes for vaping in the year ahead, affecting debates on matters such as taxes, flavour bans and environmental measures ...
ECigIntelligence legal analyst Fernanda Tucunduva talks to podcast host Antonia Di Lorenzo about the vaping market in German-speaking countries across Europe and following coming legal developments. Fernanda talks about the vaping industry in countries like...
Some countries, and millions of users are making headway in replacing combustible tobacco with safer alternatives…but what’s holding back the others? Are the products themselves the problem, or is it a matter of perception? ...
Excise duties on cigarettes in Italy will increase from 1st January, while those on heated tobacco and e-liquids will not rise at the rate previously laid out, under the new Italian government’s 2023 Budget Bill. The newly...
Should e-cigarettes be prescribed to help smokers quit? One Australian family doctor has bizarrely turned the question on its head, asking: Should cigarettes be prescribed to help vapers quit? ...
The magazine headline said: “More Teens Are Vaping Within 5 Minutes of Waking”. So where does that attention-grabbing line come from, what does it really reveal – and whose line is it anyway? ...
Domestic tax provisions and tightened regulations have led to Chinese e-cigarette brands looking to new international markets as higher prices and flavour limits mean fewer vapers at home, according to experts ...