New Zealand’s associate health minister announced that the government has agreed to outlaw non-reusable vapes and impose harsher sanctions against the sale of vaping products to under-age users
COP10 was to be the conference where countries finally got to grips with emerging alternative tobacco products, but none of the decisions made applied to ENDS or HTPs or their industries
Vaping products could soon get more expensive in several parts of Canada as a growing number of provinces sign on to an excise duty sharing plan put forward by the federal government
A proposal to tax vapes and related devices in Argentina is considered a positive sign that the country may be considering formal regulation in the sector – even though the overall bill failed to pass this time around
Kazakhstan plans to impose a complete ban on the use of vaping products as well as their import, production and sale across the country. A vote by the Kazakh Senate still has to take place
Leaders of vaping associations in Latin America have told ECigIntelligence they anticipate further restrictions and reinforced regional bans on tobacco alternative products to result from this week’s COP10
Canada’s vaping industry says it will fight the federal government’s plan to transfer the cost of Health Canada’s enforcement programme to manufacturers, saying it will make it difficult for many businesses to survive
E-cig and vape associations in Argentina, Mexico, Panama and other Latin American nations are hopeful that 2024 will bring eased restrictions and the lifting of bans that have complicated sales and consumption of tobacco alternatives
The Canadian government has tabled legislation for a tobacco cost-recovery system in a bid to recoup the money it spends each year on tobacco and vape control…
Rising costs – not increased domestic regulation – are the main reason for Chinese e-cig manufacturers to set up factories internationally. Surveys indicate three main reasons why companies are moving factories out of China
The recent election of president Javier Milei in Argentina is considered encouraging for the South American country’s e-cigarette and heated tobacco market, industry leaders told ECigIntelligence
New Zealand’s radical smoke-free plans look likely to fall victim to savings designed to fund tax cuts by the new government, who are looking to repeal amendments to the Smokefree Environments Act
Vaping products will no longer be considered pharmaceutical products in Chile, following the passage of bill 12626-11 – with outlining regulations expected to be issued by May 2024
Malaysia will press forward with its tobacco control plans in the hopes of providing a leadership role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ahead of what is hoped to be a rescheduled COP10 next year
The regulation of new and emerging e-cigarette, heated tobacco and nicotine products will be one of the central topics of discussion at the COP10-MOP3 conferences next year, said the head of the WHO FCTC
Canada’s health minister says he is deeply concerned by the rise in youth vaping and is actively working on plans to restrict flavoured vaping products
Future innovation in vaping and tobacco alternatives is likely to involve environmental improvements and prevention of youth usage, said speakers at the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum
Panama’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit that claims the country’s 2022 e-cig and heated tobacco ban is unconstitutional – a move seen as a positive first step by tobacco harm reduction groups
The first in a series of debates on tobacco alternatives in Brazil has shown how opinion is slowly evolving. A public hearing on the regulatory status of ENDS was held on 28th September
The Canadian government has begun a legislative review of the country’s tobacco legislation, saying it wants to reduce the number of smokers nationwide
Three non-governmental organisations filing a lawsuit against the Malaysian health ministry on the delisting of nicotine could win their case, local observers believe, and will have several alternatives to consider if their action fails
South Africans have expressed mixed reactions to the country’s Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill, which aims to strengthen the law and would create many new rules affecting e-cigarettes
New Zealand will soon require removable batteries in all vaping devices, while also imposing nicotine concentration limits, banning certain types of flavour names, and tightening restrictions on retail
Panama’s ban on the use, sale and import of e-cigarettes is unconstitutional, according to claims made by the Panama Association for the Reduction of Damage by Tobacco Use (ARDTP) in a lawsuit
The Israeli Ministry of Health has published plans for tougher measures that would apply to all smoking and tobacco products, in advance of a public consultation aimed at amending the Tobacco Law
Venezuela is the latest Latin American country to issue a government decree banning nationwide sales, consumption, exports and distribution of vapes and heated tobacco
Australian dentists have joined the country’s chorus of opposition to vaping, with the Australian Dental Association (ADA) including a warning against e-cigarettes in its updated recommendations for oral health
Canada’s second largest province is going ahead with plans to restrict flavours in vaping products. The new regulations in Quebec, due to take effect on 31st October, will ban all flavours other than tobacco
Electronic nicotine delivery systems are threatening to undermine decades of efforts to reduce smoking, according to a new annual report from the World Health Organization on global tobacco control progress