Regulatory and market intelligence for the e-cigarette sector
E-cigarettes containing nicotine can help people quit and cut down on smoking: that is the digested version of the Cochrane review on the use of e-cigs for smoking cessation and reduction, but the review itself is considerably more nuanced.
The abandonment by Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG) of its IPO was sad for the industry but inevitable, according to e-cigarette executives.
Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG) has withdrawn its application for an initial public offering (IPO) on the U.S. NASDAQ stock exchange, but kept the door open for a private offering in the future.
E-cigarette companies in the UK are spending less on Internet marketing than on any other major advertising medium, according to market tracking firm Nielsen.
E-cig brands and manufacturers should pay more attention to product design, all the way from components to packaging, an industry conference was told this week.
E-cig retailers in Ireland would require licensing under proposed legislation which the government characterises as a first step toward meeting the requirements of the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
E-liquid has no short-term deleterious effect on human lung cells, according to a German e-cig manufacturer which commissioned research comparing the vapour of nicotine-containing liquid with tobacco smoke.
A basic chemical analysis of e-liquids could soon be provided by simple handheld devices.
Europe’s largest outsourced manufacturing facility for nicotine products is to open in the UK city of Liverpool.
Some recent developments in the e-cig world will likely have an impact long after the more transient triumphs and tussles are forgotten.
Young Britons are taking up e-cigarettes for reasons very different from older vapers, new research suggests.
Smokers seeking alternatives to the combustible cigarette face problems that neither e-cigs nor nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can fully solve, according to the CEO of a Swedish firm which is taking a completely different technology approach.
E-cigarettes may be more effective than previously thought in reducing craving for tobacco cigarettes and helping people quit smoking, according to a group of Belgian scientists who partially attribute their results to the use of second-generation e-cigs.
ECigIntelligence today releases its latest market update on Germany – one of the most important territories for e-cigarettes in the world.
The British media has been busy recently with reports of fires caused by e-cigarettes. But do the numbers support the scare?
When policy-makers, scientists and health professionals gather in the august halls of London’s Royal Society for the E-Cigarette Summit this Thursday, it will be just the start of a busy conference season in Europe.
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has released a draft of its specification for the manufacture, testing and labelling of e-cigarettes, one of the first proposed comprehensive standards for vapour products in the world.
This article, republished from Tobacco Journal International exclusively for ECigIntelligence readers, takes a look at changes in smoking prevalence and smoking populations around the world – and explains some surprising apparent contradictions.
British plans for comprehensive legislation on e-cigarettes could be published as early as January 2015, according to a new report from ECigIntelligence.
This week’s World Health Organization (WHO) conference on tobacco control looks likely to recommend that nations ban e-cigarette advertising.
Pet poisoning by nicotine products is a rare occurrence and alarm is overstated, experts say, though they warn consumers to be careful.
Britain’s advertising standards-setters today published their new guidelines for e-cigarette ads, welcomed by the industry, imposing no unexpected restrictions, and allowing e-cigs to be shown in TV commercials for the first time.
Britain’s advertising watchdog has censured e-cigarette maker Ten Motives for a direct mail item which showed an e-cig stuck into an ice cream, saying it was “likely to be appealing to children”.
The differing fortunes of e-cigarettes in two major markets are highlighted by new ECigIntelligence research, showing that while tank systems are taking off dramatically in the U.S. they have fallen flat in Spain. Our U.S. research, available exclusively to ECigIntelligence customers in a 62-page special report, finds that the U.S. […]
Engagement and loyalty-building with individual consumers will grow increasingly important for e-cigarette brands in Europe, according to industry experts. But will forthcoming regulation allow it to happen in the easiest place – online – or will it force brands to rely on establishing connections with their customers through retail stores? […]
Paris and Las Vegas: ECigIntelligence director, Tim Phillips recently chaired the E-cig Vegas: Industry Conference discussion panels where experts debated the current business climate in the sector, the upcoming Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deeming regulations and the science surrounding e-cigarettes. At Vapexpo in Paris meanwhile, Nick Wenbourne, ECigIntelligence legal and […]
A science publisher’s own publicity for a research article on e-cigarettes and cancer has been criticised for suggesting conclusions unjustified by the data. For a recent paper in the John Wiley & Sons journal Cancer, entitled “Electronic cigarette use among patients with cancer”, researchers investigated people enrolled in a tobacco […]
Things are changing at Philip Morris International (PMI), with new plans for tackling the reduced risk tobacco products sector.
A British government health adviser has been forced to resign after a Twitter tirade at his opponents in an argument about e-cigarettes.
Britain’s medicines regulator has issued a product licence for the nicotine inhaler Voke, which will be sold by British American Tobacco’s subsidiary Nicoventures and looks likely to be the closest pharmaceutically-approved competitor to the e-cigarette.
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