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Lithuania: MP Vytautas Kernagis last week registered Bill 2590, which would prohibit the combining of tobacco and other additives in e-cigarettes and e-liquids.
US - Ohio: Public opinion is split over Cleveland's proposed tobacco product flavour ban. On the one hand, the argument in favour of the ban
Latvia: On 30th March, the Ministry of Health held a meeting of the State Commission on Smoking Restrictions, where proposals to reduce under-age
Malaysia: The minister of finance and prime minister Anwar Ibrahim issued the Excise Duties (Amendment) Order 2023 on 31st March, making nicotine-containing e-liquids
Malaysia: The minister of health issued the Poisons (Amendment of Poisons List) Order 2023 on 31st March, under which nicotine-containing e-liquids are excluded
Norway: The Ministry of Health has presented a public health report that introduces a new national tobacco strategy. The government aims to introduce
US - New York: Bill A 5994 has just been introduced. This bill prohibits misrepresenting any facts about the health consequences of using
US - federal: The House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability has announced that it is investigating the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center
Slovenia: A 30-day public consultation on a Ministry of Health bill to ban the sale of non-tobacco-flavoured vaping products ends today. The bill would also bring
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 310,464 vapour
US - Louisiana: House Bill 179 has been introduced, which would prohibit the sale or service of any e-liquid or vapour product with “a characterizing flavor”
Brazil: The director of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), Antonio Barra Torres, has told media that a resolution of the legal status of e-cigarettes and
Germany: Customs officers have have seized 4.4 litres of untaxed e-liquids during an inspection in Potsdam, near Berlin. They found seven out of ten retailers
Egypt: The Ministry of Health has issued a warning against the use of e-cigarettes, saying that the argument that they are less harmful
Netherlands: Figures from the national statistical office, Statistics Netherlands, show a significant increase in e-cigarette use among young people in 2022 compared to
US - general: Juul Labs and its former major investor Altria face their first US trial this week over claims that they promoted
Switzerland: A study conducted last year by the Swiss Addiction Foundation, funded by the Federal Office of Public Health, and involving 9,345 students found 7% of girls
Egypt: Senate representative Mohamed Salah El-Badri warned against the use of e-cigarettes, arguing that they can cause severe lung damage and may lead
Egypt: The Senate has passed a bill on "Treating e-cigarettes and heated tobacco reciprocally with regular cigarettes'' during its plenary session today (27th
Philippines: Last week, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issued Revenue Memorandum Circular 35-2023, clarifying that the application of the 18-month transition period provided in
New Zealand: After issuing a warning to companies in November 2022 about vaping products that may not be compliant, particularly with regard to maximum
Lithuania: The Department of Drug, Tobacco and Alcohol Control has issued a reminder that from 1st April 2023, under order no. V-1815/3D-771, tetrahydrocannabinol
Latvia: The bill to ban e-cigarette flavours and prohibit the sale of all e-cigs, with or without nicotine, to under-20s has been approved at
Russia: Yesterday in the State Duma (lower house), prime minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the government is considering banning e-cigarettes. No proposals have
US - General: The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has granted RJ Reynolds Vapor Company's motion for a stay pending
UK: Kevin Hollinrake, junior secretary for business and trade, said that the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has discussed Elf Bar e-cigarettes
UK: Junior health secretary Neil O'Brien has said that there is currently no evidence that young people move from using vapes to tobacco
EU: The EU Commission proposal for the Green Claims Directive requires companies to substantiate claims about environmental footprint with the standard quantifying methods. The
Australia: The opposition National Party has proposed lifting the ban on nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, press reports. The Nationals’ larger coalition partners the Liberals have in the
US - federal: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new webpage listing all the tobacco products-related citizen petitions received by the agency’s
Cambodia: During a seminar yesterday on e-cigarettes and related products, education minister Kim Sethany told school managers to ramp up enforcement of the ban
UK: Though there are no immediate plans for a ban, the government is concerned by the increasing use of disposable vaping products, particularly
US - Maine: Legislative Document (LD) 1215 and LD 1174 have been introduced. Both would ban the sale of all flavoured tobacco products,
Taiwan: Amendments to tobacco legislation banning all types of e-cigarette and regulating heated tobacco products will come into force tomorrow. Heated tobacco products will
UK: The government will unveil a set of proposals in the coming weeks aimed at realising the goal of a “Smokefree 2030” and
US - federal: Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate Elf Bar for allegedly
UK: Lancashire Police and Trading Standards officers last week seized 1,024 counterfeit e-cigarettes and tobacco products in the town of Preston. Together they would have
Italy: The Council of Ministers has adopted a bill to delegate a tax reform to the government. Among other things, it aims to review the administrative
Egypt: The Customs Authority has released Circular No. 23/2023, clarifying that nicotine-free and nicotine-containing e-liquids are taxed at a rate of EGP2 ($0.06)
Bahrain: On 19th March, the minister of industry and commerce issued Decision No.26/2023, authorising the Ministry of Health to monitor the implementation of
Bulgaria: The Ministry of Finance has presented a draft Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Tax-Insurance Procedural Code, which introduces a tax
EU: EU environment ministers, particularly from Italy and Belgium, want more flexibility in implementing the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, proposed by the
Netherlands: After an inspection of 25 outlets in the Hague, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) found that the inspected
US - General: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued marketing denial orders (MDOs) for two menthol e-cigarette products currently marketed by
Thailand: A subcommittee on tobacco control, within the Public Health Committee of the House of Representatives, reportedly made a formal recommendation to the government to adopt
UK: Junior environment secretary, Rebecca Pow, said that the Environment Agency has not received any complaints on disposable vaping devices in the last
Germany: In a meeting organised by the newspaper eGarage, German politicians from the current coalition government shared their thoughts on e-cigarette taxation and
US - New York: The New York State Senate and New York State Assembly have rejected governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to ban sales
