LATEST ALERTS
New Zealand: On 16th December 2024, The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Bill received royal assent. As of 17th December, penalties for
Lithuania: The Department of Drug, Tobacco and Alcohol Control (NTAKD) has reminded retailers that as of 1st January 2025 displaying tobacco products and e-cigarettes
Indonesia: The Ministry of Finance has issued regulation 96 of 2024, to take effect on 1st January 2025, press reports. The regulation sets
Germany: On 4th December, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published an updated assessment of safrole, sucralose and menthol in e-cigarettes. The BfR said
Vietnam: The National Assembly has issued resolution 173/2024/QH15 in which it formally asks the government to ban the production, trading, import, storage, transport and use
Bangladesh: The interim government has decided to add e-cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) to the list of prohibited items under the Import
Germany: The Federal Constitutional Court has not accepted a constitutional complaint directed against the introduction of the tax on e-liquids, in force since 1st July
New Zealand: The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Bill was adopted in the third and final reading. The main changes expected are zoning restrictions for
Russia: The State Duma (lower chamber of the parliament) deputies have prepared a bill banning the sale of tobacco and nicotine-containing products at
Spain: Today is the last day of the public consultation period for the draft decree that would amend royal decree 579/2017, which regulates the
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
Estonia: Parliament has approved bill 510 SE, which introduces incremental increases to excise duties on e-cigarettes over the coming years. The current tax rate
Indonesia: Merrijantij Punguan Pintaria, director of Beverages, Tobacco Products and Refreshment Materials within the Ministry of Industry, said that the draft regulations introducing
Austria: The head of the tobacco monopoly administration, Hannes Hofer, expressed his concern about the lack of taxation on nicotine products, press reports. He also
Mexico: Yesterday (11th December), the Senate passed an amendment to the constitution that expressly bans the manufacture, distribution and sale of vaping products
Russia: The Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg has prepared a draft resolution to appeal to the head of the Federal Agency for Technical
Brazil: The Department of Consumer Protection and Defence (Procon) of the state of Goiás has asked the social media company Facebook to provide information about illegal
France: The country’s caretaker administration presented an emergency finance bill to the parliament to avoid a shutdown after the country’s government and the 2025
Indonesia: Former director of research policy and cooperation at the World Health Organization (WHO) Tikki Pangestu said that, in order to reduce the
Thailand: A parliamentary committee is finalising its report on measures to regulate e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) in an effort to protect
Philippines: Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) commissioner Romeo Lumagui said in a social media post that online vape sellers still need to pay the
Philippines: The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has reacted to social media posts by two vape companies, Flare and Shft, in which they
Bulgaria: The Ministry of Finance has presented the draft law on the 2025 State Budget, which envisages an increase in the tax on e-cigarettes.
US - Illinois: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, alongside Cook County sheriff Tom Dart and other local officials, announced new efforts to combat youth vaping.
Iceland: The law amending various laws on taxes and fees has been published in the Icelandic Official Gazette, and will enter into force on
EU: Sixteen member states of the European Union have sent a joint letter to the European Commission urging it to propose a revision
Philippines: Public health advocacy group HealthJustice has called for a total ban on e-cigarettes. After Vietnam's National Assembly approved a resolution to ban e-cigarettes from
India: Two members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, the ruling party), Shalini Yadav and Shehzad Poonawala, have called for stricter enforcement of anti-tobacco laws,
US - Michigan: A pair of bills have been introduced. House Bill 6235 would prohibit the advertising for sale, displaying for sale, marketing, and
Germany: On 27th November, Customs seized around 650,000 e-cigarettes, the largest quantity of illegal vapes seized to date in the region of Rhineland.
Taiwan: Today, the Ministry of Health and Welfare released the findings of the 2023 Youth Smoking Behavior Survey. The survey reported a 4.8%
Netherlands: The citizens’ initiative Nicotinee – launched at the end of 2022 and declared admissible in July 2024 – which aims to prohibit the sale
China: The State Council Customs Tariff Commission recently issued the Methods for Levying Customs Duties, Value-Added Tax, and Consumption Tax on Imported Goods, effective 1st
Russia: The Ministry of Agriculture has calculated minimum prices for nicotine-containing products for 2025. From 1st January 2025, the minimum selling price will be
Russia: Marine Gambaryan, the head of the Centre for Prevention and Control of Tobacco Consumption of the Ministry of Health, believes that in order to successfully combat
Mexico: The Chamber of Representatives has passed an amendment to the constitution that expressly bans the manufacture, distribution and sale of vaping products and heating
France: The proposed new taxes on tobacco products and e-liquids for the upcoming year are unlikely to be implemented following the no-confidence vote
Philippines: According to a social media post by Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) commissioner Romeo D Lumagui Jr., the BIR has seized more
Indonesia: Cashtry Meher, a health practitioner and member of the National Democratic Party (NasDem), which currently holds 69 seats in the parliament, has
Spain: Tobacco consumption is decreasing in Spain while vaping increases. According to the Ministry of Health’s 2024 Survey on Alcohol and Other Drugs in Spain
Lithuania: Yesterday (3rd December), the parliament approved the amendment to tighten economic sanctions for individuals for the sale of tobacco and related products
Czech Republic: The Ministry of Health has updated the publicly available list of notified herbal products for smoking, e-cigarettes and substitute refills.
Greece: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products. The list now contains 62,256 vapour products, including devices, disposables and
Philippines: Senator Sherwin Gatchalian from the majority bloc Nationalist People’s Coalition party has filed Senate Resolution 1243, calling for an investigation into revenue
