New Zealand ready to allow e-cigs but still stands firm against HnB
7th June 2017 | News analysis |
New Zealand looks set to amend the law to allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold in the country – but not to permit HnB products.
LATEST ALERTSNew Zealand looks set to amend the law to allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold in the country – but not to permit HnB products.
The launch of PMI’s heated tobacco device iQOS in South Africa has had a positive reaction even from potential competitors, who hope it will increase general awareness of alternatives to combustible cigarettes.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been named as the next director general of the World Health Organization, a role with huge influence on governments around the world, and therefore on the potential future of e-cigarette regulation.
A new ban on public smoking in the Philippines will not include e-cigarettes – contrary to initial reports. Moves remain ongoing, however, to bring some regulation to a currently all but unregulated market.
Philip Morris International (PMI) has run into legal trouble in New Zealand, where the health ministry has taken the company to court for attempting to sell its iQOS heat-not-burn device in the country.
An Australian Federal Court decision against three e-cigarette retailers has added a note of caution but little clarity to what companies can say or do on their websites.
Companies looking to use health claims in South African e-cigarette advertising must present robust scientific data for every device, according to a new ruling.
E-cigarettes are more popular than they are successful as smoking cessation aids in Japan, according to a recent study which suggests they should therefore “not be recommended or promoted”.
South Africa has a growing e-cigarette market driven by rising health concerns and a parity between conventional and electronic cigarette pricing. But potential regulation casts a dark cloud on the horizon.
An Indian man convicted of selling e-cigarettes is out on bail awaiting an appeal and using that time to get on with his life.
Zimbabwe’s struggling tobacco farmers – particularly growers of lower quality tobacco – are pinning high hopes on nicotine extraction for e-liquids.
With limited internet access and low awareness, Zimbabwe’s nascent e-cig market is largely limited to the capital, Harare, but expansion is slowly underway.
The government of New Zealand has confirmed that it plans to legalise nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, and embed harm reduction concepts into law.
Australia will not re-classify nicotine to allow the domestic sale of e-cigarettes, having refused to legalise nicotine-containing e-liquid despite appeals to support vaping for harm reduction.
Taiwan’s proposed e-cigarette ban has been severely criticised by international legal experts on grounds of both public health and freedom of trade.
A Canadian libertarian group has objected that the country’s proposed e-cigarette legislation is too stringent, especially on the subject of advertising restrictions and treating e-cigs like tobacco.
Taiwan is proposing a full ban on e-cigarettes, but intervention by the World Trade Organization could interfere with that plan.
A New Zealand political party has proposed providing some form of subsidy for e-cigarettes in pursuit of the country’s goal of being smoke-free by 2025.
Japan Tobacco and Philip Morris International are attempting to widen their distribution of heat-not-burn (HnB) products throughout Pacific Asia, but there have been problems along the way.
The most popular e-liquid products in China appear to be the cheapest ones, according to a new ECigIntelligence analysis of online pricing in the Chinese market.
Vape stores in Russia appear to be playing a waiting game on new e-cigarette taxes that officially came into force on 1st January – while the national consumer protection agency is calling for further regulation and enforcement.
A new UK-Chinese joint venture could bring Blu to the Chinese domestic market. But are the pricing conditions favourable for such a move?
Tobacco regulation is not a stated priority for five of the six candidates who have been put forward to succeed Margaret Chan as director general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Malaysia at last has a plan for future e-cigarette regulation. Various duties have been given to three separate government ministries, which must now come back with firm proposals for implementation within the next three years.
The legal status of e-cig products could be set for a radical overhaul in Taiwan, with nicotine-containing products becoming legal while nicotine-free products, currently widely available, are brought under pharmaceutical regulation.
India’s wide-ranging national tax reforms will considerably reduce the tax on tobacco in some states – good news for the country’s tobacco industry, but not necessarily for its struggling e-cigarette sector.
Chinese e-cig regulation has been delayed due to agencies passing the buck, researchers say. Future regulation may shade more towards pharmaceutical or tobacco controls, with significant implications for the tiny domestic industry either way.
A new study claims there is no evidence that nicotine “causes or promotes” cancer and calls for health authorities to try and move smokers towards less harmful nicotine delivery products as quickly as possible.
Online and offline channels are of almost equal importance in generating sales for the e-cigarette market in Russia, the latest ECigIntelligence market report has found.
E-cigarettes could be banned entirely in Indonesia if the health minister has her way – and she has some powerful support in a nation which has the third highest prevalence of smoking in the world.
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