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Latest survey figures fill in some of the gaps on US teen vaping
Written by Barnaby Page || 18th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
Fresh data on teen vaping in the US broadly supports the numbers on which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has based recent policy, but also casts doubt on some of the details ...
A world of regulation: where the bans are on harm reduction products
Written by Pablo Cano Trilla || 17th December 2018 || Regulatory reports |
ECigIntelligence presents its comprehensive analysis of which countries have banned the three most popular harm reduction products: nicotine-containing vapour products; heated tobacco; and oral tobacco ...
Californian senators aim to get ahead of the FDA with flavours ban
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 12th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
California legislators are aiming to ban flavoured e-liquids and tobacco, singling out “fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, dessert, alcoholic beverage, menthol, mint, wintergreen, herb or spice” flavours ...
Good science supports e-cig flavours, claims industry association
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 11th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it is committed to science-based regulation, one industry association is using the existing science on flavours to fight against the agency’s policy plans ...
Sense and sensibilities behind Juul’s rumoured deal with Altria
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th December 2018 || Business briefing |
A possible agreement between Altria and Juul, with the tobacco giant rumoured to be seeking a minority share in the successful e-cig company, could have major implications for the US vapour market ...
Is Juul’s social media blackout simply good PR at little cost?
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 4th December 2018 || Business briefing |
Juul’s decision to scale down its social media activities may only be scratching the surface – because almost all of its online presence comes from enthusiasts, not the company itself ...
Tragedy? Or FDA comedy? The given statistics don’t show enough to tell
Written by Barnaby Page || 28th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US FDA and its commissioner Scott Gottlieb have been using figures drawn from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) to justify clamping down more strongly on youth vaping. But is the data all it seems? ...
Brands leap to toe the FDA’s not-yet-drawn line on youth access
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 22nd November 2018 || Business briefing |
A number of vaping manufacturers will restrict advertising and sales in support of the US FDA campaign against youth access to e-cigarettes – before they even know full details of the agency’s plans ...
CDC: high school vaping up by 78% in a year, flavours used more widely
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 16th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released long-anticipated new figures from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), showing a sharp year-on-year increase in the number of high school and middle school students who vape...
Juul heads the rush to fall in line with FDA restrictions on flavour sales
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 13th November 2018 || Business briefing |
Some members of the American vaping industry appear to be embracing the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s restrictions on flavours, expected to be officially announced today ...
FDA set to ban fruit and candy flavours in convenience stores and fuel stations
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 9th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US FDA is to ban the sale of fruit and candy e-cig flavours. It is reported the ban will affect convenience stores and fuel stations, but not vape stores ...
Strong language: Gottlieb upgrades youth use from ‘epidemic’ to ‘tragedy’
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 31st October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The language used by US FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb to describe youth vaping is getting stronger. What he formerly called an “epidemic” has become a “tragedy” in latest statement on the issue ...
San Fran ban inspires California trend against flavoured e-liquids
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 29th October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
After passing a public vote this summer, the San Francisco ban on e-liquid flavours has had a wildfire-like effect in California. The various bans affect all flavours except tobacco-flavoured e-liquids ...
Altria to stop selling pods and many flavours in US
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 26th October 2018 || Business briefing |
Tobacco company Altria has told the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it will stop selling e-cigarette pods and most non-tobacco flavours in the...
FDA could ban c-stores from selling flavoured e-cigs, says Gottlieb
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US FDA has indicated it could restrict e-cigarette sales in convenience stores, and possibly limit the sale of flavoured e-cigs to vape shops only ...
FDA fires warning shot over Viagra drug in ‘unapproved’ e-liquid
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 12th October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to an e-cig company for selling e-liquids which the agency has determined are unapproved new drugs ...
Shake and vape facing new rules: Greece regulatory report
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 9th October 2018 || Regulatory reports |
In our latest look at regulations in Greece, we find that there are planned regulations for DIY and shake and vape products and only TPD-compliant, nicotine-containing products notified to the Ministry of Health may be produced and sold...
No softening likely in WHO’s antagonism to e-cigs and HnB
Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The rhetoric coming out of the eighth Conference of the Parties (COP8) in Geneva suggests the World Health Organization is unlikely to give vaping products or HnB a role in its anti-tobacco policies any time soon ...
FDA seizes documents from Juul offices in ‘unannounced inspection’
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 3rd October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed more than a thousand pages of documents from the offices of e-cig company Juul Labs in an “unannounced on-site inspection” ...
FDA chief Gottlieb warns online e-cig sales ban is ‘on the table’
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 25th September 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottlieb indicated today that he is contemplating an online sales ban for e-cigarettes ...
‘Not on my watch’: Gottlieb escalates FDA war on youth vaping
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 19th September 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US FDA has stepped up its campaign against the youth vaping “epidemic” with the launch of a large-scale education programme, threats to tighten compliance requirements, and a reiteration of its concern over flavours ...
FDA gets tough with big five: ‘Show us a plan to reverse youth uptake or else’
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 12th September 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US Food and Drug Administration is threatening five major players in the US industry – Juul, Vuse, MarkTen XL, Blu and Logic – in an effort to get them to offer concrete plans to reverse the trend...
Legal eagle Miller to lead Juul’s campaign against youth vaping
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 30th April 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
Iowa attorney general Tom Miller will head Juul Labs’ bid to keep e-cigarettes from under-21s after the company announced $30m over three years to fund research and create an expert panel on the issue ...
Will FDA reconsider cannabis vaping regulation in light of new research?
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd April 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The US FDA may be considering future marijuana vaping regulation in the light of new academic research into opioids and the medical potential of cannabis ...
Is CDC director’s rapid exit a chance to end the ‘war on tobacco’?
Written by Jim Myers || 7th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The abrupt resignation of Brenda Fitzgerald as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could provide the Trump administration with an unexpected opportunity to help settle a question on the agency’s anti-tobacco efforts ...
Greece regulatory report: cross-border ban details and a legal challenge
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 2nd February 2018 || Regulatory reports |
Our updated report on the current state of e-cigarette regulation in Greece includes interpretation from the customs authority on what is covered by the cross-border distance sales ban and news of a legal challenge to the ban on...
American Vaping Association urges FDA to approve iQOS
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 14th September 2017 || Regulatory briefing |
The American Vaping Association has written to FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb urging him to approve PMI’s heated tobacco product iQOS for sale in the US ...
Harm reduction advocate Adams chosen as next US surgeon general
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 3rd July 2017 || Regulatory briefing |
President Trump has nominated Indiana health commissioner Jerome Adams, a supporter of harm reduction and outspoken opponent of smoking, to be the next US surgeon...
Gottlieb: “Give me time to make decisions on deeming rule”
Written by Jim Myers || 26th May 2017 || Regulatory briefing |
The newly installed commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) repeatedly told anxious law-makers on Thursday that he needs more time before deciding what he will do, if anything, about his agency’s controversial deeming regulation on...
How far can – and will – Trump and Gottlieb go in easing regulation?
Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd May 2017 || Regulatory reports |
While the election of Donald Trump was greeted as a cause for some optimism in the US e-cigarette industry, hopes for the easing of regulation at the federal level lie not so much with the White House as...
Senate confirms e-cig industry’s friend Gottlieb as FDA chief
Written by Jim Myers || 10th May 2017 || Regulatory briefing |
Scott Gottlieb, who plans a review of the deeming regulation that has caused so much concern for the e-cigarette industry, is set to become the next commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after winning Senate...
Greece’s TPD law: distance sales allowed, new tax now in place
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 6th February 2017 || Regulatory reports |
The European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) is now operative in Greece, with laws in place that are specific to e-cigarettes and...
Sweden can expect post-TPD e-cig growth
Written by Jon Bruford || 17th June 2016 || Market reports |
In this report we look at Sweden, an expanding market where further growth is expected into 2017, helped by the easing of certain aspects of regulation in the country due to implementation of the Tobacco Products...
Norway sees steady e-cig growth despite competition
Written by Jon Bruford || 17th June 2016 || Market reports |
In this in-depth report we look at Norway, where use of e-cigs seems to have a strong health slant. Snus is highly prevalent in the country and is clearly entrenched competition to e-cigs, potentially meaning the cap on...
Finland growth thanks to regulatory easing
Written by Jon Bruford || 17th June 2016 || Market reports |
In this in-depth report we focus on Finland, a market we estimate to be worth roughly US $12 million, around 12% growth from 2014. We expect the market to growth further into 2017, helped by easing of...
Denmark vaper population stalls; light growth expected
Written by Jon Bruford || 15th June 2016 || Market reports |
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for Denmark or the advanced search page. Executive summary For 2016 we estimate the Danish market to be roughly US $26...
Could e-cigarettes be the next battleground for plain packaging?
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th June 2016 || Regulatory reports |
As the tobacco industry braces itself for a global epidemic of plain-packaging legislation, there have been calls for the controversial measure to be applied to e-cigarettes...
Harm reduction vs precaution: why the debate is key to e-cig policy
Written by Barnaby Page || 18th April 2016 || Regulatory briefing |
Harm reduction vs the precautionary principle is an issue which has split public-health experts since the HIV epidemic of the 1980s, and still underlies debates over e-cigarette regulation such as the EU Tobacco Products Directive...
Malaysia prospects not bright with bans on horizon: report
Written by Jon Bruford || 25th March 2016 || Market reports |
This report gives an overview of the Malaysian e-cigarette market, which is currently under huge pressure from government regulations. Various data collection methods were used, including online research, phone and face-to-face interviews to estimate the number of e-cig...
Senate vote puts Califf among e-cig world’s most powerful
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th February 2016 || Regulatory briefing |
Robert Califf has been confirmed as the next head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency which will spearhead federal regulation of e-cigarettes when it releases its long-awaited deeming...
25 countries now ban e-cigs, says World Health Organization
Written by Barnaby Page || 9th July 2015 || Regulatory briefing |
E-cigarettes are banned by about one in eight of the globe’s nations, according to the World Health Organization...
In depth: e-cigarette regulation and policy in Greece, June 2015
Written by Barnaby Page || 5th June 2015 || Regulatory reports |
The background to Greek regulation • National regulatory framework • Age restrictions • Product and packaging restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Taxation • Case law • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw...
The e-cig world is changing – we’re just not sure when
Written by Barnaby Page || 16th April 2015 || Business briefing , Regulatory briefing |
We review the top e-cigarette industry, policy and science stories of recent...
Hong Kong health agency proposes total e-cig ban
Written by Barnaby Page || 31st March 2015 || Regulatory briefing |
Hong Kong could prohibit e-cigarettes altogether following a recommendation from a public health...
France’s vape stores are feeling the pinch, need to differentiate
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th March 2015 || Business briefing |
Vape stores did not escape the epidemic of small-business failures in France last year, but there are still positive signs of life in the sector and it can survive by differentiating itself from non-specialist retailers, according to a...
In depth: conflicting statistics beset debate on youth vaping
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd March 2015 || Regulatory reports |
A new study is the first to cautiously find no link between e-cigarette use in U.S. middle- and high-school students and harm reduction....
Still waiting for FDA e-cig rules, U.S. states take the initiative
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd January 2015 || Regulatory briefing |
While Washington remains deafeningly quiet on its plans to regulate e-cigarettes, individual U.S. states and lower levels of government are busy filling the legal...
Updated: the WHO’s influence on global e-cig regulation
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th September 2014 || Regulatory reports |
What the FCTC is • A global treaty • Broad scope of regulation • The regulatory framework • The FCTC in practice • No enforcement powers • Enforcement by signatories • Self-reporting • Shadow reporting • Influence on...