LATEST ALERTS
US - Minnesota: Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison has taken legal action against Los Angeles-based High Light Vapes, accusing the company of marketing
US - Mississippi: House Bill 916 has been introduced. HB 916 would create public state directories for both cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery
US - Hawaii: Senate Bill (SB) 972 has been introduced. SB 972 aims to prohibit the sale of flavoured nicotine products in Hawaii, starting
US - Connecticut: Senate Bill (SB) 792 has been introduced. SB 792 would impose an excise tax of 75% on the sale of non-tobacco
US - General: California attorney general Rob Bonta, joined by nine other attorneys general, has announced multistate actions to address the unlawful manufacturing, distribution,
Philippines: A group of House leaders has proposed a bill to temporarily suspend the annual increase of 5% in tobacco excise taxes for
Brazil: The Federal Highway Police (PRF) confiscated 623,437 vape products on federal highways nationwide in 2024. This marks a 150% rise from the previous year,
Uzbekistan: The Committee on Labour, Healthcare and Social Affairs of the lower chamber of the parliament has held a working group meeting to discuss
Indonesia: The Ministry of Health has said that the draft regulations potentially introducing plain packaging for all tobacco and nicotine products are still being finalised, press
Poland: The Ministry of Health has made public a draft bill that aims to ban the sale to under-18s of all types of e-cigarettes and
Egypt: The Ministry of Health plans to establish a committee to ensure the enforcement of the Prevention of Smoking Law. This law prohibits smoking,
Russia: The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has drafted a governmental decree proposing to ban the sale of nicotine-containing products – including e-liquids, disposable e-cigarettes and
Russia: A bill seeking to ban the retail sale of vapes and e-liquids in Russia is planned to be included in the draft
Philippines: The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has suspended 14 manufacturers and importers of vaping products for failing to meet packaging requirements. A preliminary
EU: New commissioner for health and animal safety Olivér Várhelyi has outlined his policy priorities for his five-year mandate. While not explicitly addressing
Thailand: On 26th December 2024, the chairman of Thailand’s Special Committee on E-Cigarette Control, presented a comprehensive report to the Thai parliament following
Saudi Arabia: The Ministry of Municipalities and Housing has launched a public consultation, running until 28th January, on additional requirements for tobacco shops.
US - Federal: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a proposed rule that aims to set a maximum nicotine level to reduce
EU: Cypriot member of the European Parliament (MEP) Loucas Fourlas, from the European People's Party Group (centre-right), has submitted a parliamentary question to
US - Federal: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has released an overview of the center's accomplishments
US - New York: Assembly Bill A1709 has been introduced. A1709 would prohibit the sale of any vapour or tobacco products that contain the
US - New York: Assembly Bill A1687 has been introduced. A1687 would prohibit the packaging, sale and distribution of confectionery and candy designed to resemble a
Philippines: The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has reminded importers and manufacturers of vaping products and heated tobacco products to register for the Philippine Standard
US - Federal: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that the agency, in collaboration with US Homeland Security Investigations and US
Greece: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products. The list now contains 62,973 vapour products, including devices, disposables and refill
Chile: The Public Health Institute (ISP) has issued a warning about the harmful effects of e-cigarettes to health. The warning mainly references the
New Zealand: The Asthma and Respiratory Foundation and the Cancer Society New Zealand have criticised a government scheme that offers free vaping kits to
US - Indiana: House Bill (HB) 1410 has been introduced. HB 1410 would ban the sale of flavoured tobacco products – which includes electronic
US - Iowa: State authorities have agreed to temporarily postpone enforcement of House File (HF) 2677, which regulates the distribution and sale of vapour products
US - Nebraska: Legislative Bill 125 has been introduced, which would update Nebraska's tobacco and nicotine product regulations by introducing a new legal definition
US - New York: Assembly Bill A1636 has been introduced, which would ban the sale of any “quantity of electronic liquid used to refill
US - Indiana: Senate Bill (SB) 322 has been introduced, which would prohibit the sale of tobacco products, including e-liquids and e-cigarettes, to people
Germany: The Greens (centre-left), currently in the ruling coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, has recently published its Government Programme 2025. In it,
Germany: The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD, centre-left), currently in the ruling coalition, has published its election manifesto ahead of the 23rd
Philippines: The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has confirmed a decrease in excise tax collection from 2021 to 2024 that led to a
Lithuania: When commenting on the Belgium disposable e-cigarette ban, the chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Prevention of Addictions, Saulius Čaplinskas, said
Lithuania: Following tobacco law compliance checks in December 2024, the Department of Drug, Tobacco, and Alcohol Control (NTAKD) has applied enforcement measures to
Ukraine: The Ukrainian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Ukraine) has asked president Zelenskyy to sign a bill to change
US - Washington: House Bill 1203 has been introduced. It would ban flavoured tobacco and nicotine products, including e-сigarettes. According to the bill, beginning
US - Indiana: House Bill 1218 has been introduced. It would prohibit individuals from distributing, selling, offering to sell, making a delivery sale of,
EU: Greek member of the European Parliament (MEP) Afroditi Latinopoulou, of the right-wing Patriots for Europe group, has submitted a parliamentary question to
Uzbekistan: At a meeting of the lower chamber of the parliament, health minister Asilbek Khudayarov announced that a bill aimed at banning the
US - New York: Bill A00273 has been introduced. It would prohibit the sale or distribution of e-cigarettes that lack Food and Drug
US - New York: Bill A00274 has been introduced. It would increase the tax imposed on the sale of certain tobacco products from 75%
Czech Republic: The Ministry of Health has updated the publicly available list of notified herbal products for smoking, e-cigarettes, and substitute refills.
France: The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses) has updated the list of notified e-cigarettes. The total number of vapour products
