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Thailand’s government is planning to clamp down harder on the import of e-cigarettes, seeking to close potential loopholes in the products’ confusing legal situation.
Tobacco giant Lorillard has filed an injunction in the UK courts against Zippo Manufacturing, the legendary producer of lighters, seeking to protect its Blu e-cigarette trademarks in Europe.
The British e-cigarette maker found to have diacetyl in one of its e-liquids handled this week’s ensuing fallout correctly, according to a crisis management expert.
Smokers and cigalike users are adopting tanks, thanks to product innovation. But will the next generation of tank users have the same tastes and preferences as current customers?
Consumer protection authorities in Utah are threatening online e-cig sellers with nearly $1m in fines over misleading claims and unauthorised credit card charges.
Is the typical American vaper a young, divorced father with a bar-hopping habit, prog-rock tastes and not much of a career?
The World Health Organization (WHO) looks increasingly likely to recommend stringent restrictions on e-cigarettes, following an internal report which suggests measures including a blanket ban on indoor use and tight controls on advertising.
The increasing presence of Big Tobacco in e-cigarettes could prove to be a significant benefit for the sector, according to Miguel Martin, president of U.S. e-cig firm Logic.
This spreadsheet contains product, pricing, online ranking, and retail channel data for 102 French e-cigarette suppliers.
Zippo Manufacturing, maker of the famous cigarette lighter, has won a round in its worldwide legal dispute over the use of the brand name Blu – also employed by Lorillard for its market-leading e-cigarette.
A British e-cigarette supplier is the sector’s first independent to launch a legal challenge against the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), the EU rules published this year that will regulate the e-cig market in European member states.
Low brand loyalty, low tobacco prices and the popularity of online auctions are among the factors keeping down the value of the Polish e-cigarette sector, but it remains one of Europe’s larger markets.
Does the future of the e-cigarette industry lies in bricks-and-mortar retail sales rather than online?
India’s main tobacco cigarette supplier has launched its first e-cig in two major cities, with the promise of a national rollout to come.
Prison inmates in North Carolina are to be allowed e-cigarettes, following an unusual law-making decision which implicitly gives official recognition to the products as substitutes for tobacco smoking.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is likely to have received a deluge of comments in the run-up to the closing of the public consultation period on its e-cigarette regulations last Friday – among them a biting critique of the agency’s approach from a U.S. vapers’ group.
Italy’s Council of Ministers has approved a controversially high new tax on e-cigarettes, which would add an estimated 600% to the price of e-liquids.
Lorillard’s brand Blu retains around a 40% share of the U.S. mainstream retail market for e-cigarettes, an enviable position in many categories. But there are signs in the firm’s latest financial results and in measurement data that its ascendance is slowing, and that if Imperial Tobacco takes over the Blu brand as expected early next year, it will not be inheriting an unstoppable market leader.
A €500m market? • Tanks are most popular • The French online market • Tabacs: a shadow over vibrant vape stores
U.S. tobacco giant Lorillard is losing its best-selling e-cigarette brand Blu to British counterpart Imperial Tobacco, as part of a complex four-way deal which sees Reynolds American pay $27bn for Lorillard while Imperial picks up a number of key brands from both.
Divisions among British pharmacists over whether to sell e-cigarettes, and who to, have been further highlighted this week by a survey showing that a substantial minority would support making the products available to under-18s.
What the WHO FCTC is • The WHO FCTC in practice • What does the WHO FCTC mean for e-cigarettes?
V2 clear leader in online visitors • Wide range of e-liquid prices • Disposables: average prices vary less • Rechargeables: again, a narrow price range
Big Tobacco scaling up in UK and U.S. • Different blends of acquisition and development • Cigalike most popular form factor…for now
Almost three out of four independent UK pharmacies failed to stop under-age consumers attempting to purchase an e-cigarette, according to a new investigation from two UK governmental bodies, Public Health England and the Trading Standards Institute (TSI).
The multi-layered, multi-jurisdictional regulatory landscape • The structure of federal and state e-cig regulation • Trends in state government regulation • Trends in local government regulation • Case study: regulation of e-cigarettes in California • Deep dive: restriction of e-cig use in “public places” by state and local governments
Philip Morris International (PMI) will no longer be conspicuous in the tobacco alternatives market by its absence.
Market intelligence • Market structure • Regulatory landscape
Two e-cigarette executives drew unusually heated criticism Wednesday from U.S. Senate Democrats during a hearing on what law-makers view as the industry’s aggressive marketing tactics targeting kids.
U.S. tobacco colossus R.J. Reynolds is going national with its Vuse e-cigarette next week, after it became the best-selling product in both states where it was trialled.
E-cigarettes enjoy a high level of awareness in the U.S., with media and particularly TV accounting for much of it, according to a new study.
Market intelligence • Regulatory landscape
The most successful e-cigarette advertising emphasises the category’s differences from tobacco, rather than similarities, a new U.S. study has found.
The sensitivity of U.S. vapers to e-cigarette pricing is much higher than smokers’ sensitivity to the costs of tobacco cigarettes, according to new research – and sales of refillable units are particularly likely to be affected by price increases.
Vapers are switching away from using e-cigarettes as simulators of tobacco smoking and embracing them as a product category in their own right, according to a new market study.
Another large British e-cigarette manufacturer is being acquired by an overseas company, as the UK market becomes a battleground for international e-cig and tobacco firms.
Market insight • Current regulatory framework
U.S. e-cig supplier Victory Electronic Cigarettes is claiming leadership of the British and wider European markets following its fourth takeover of the year.
Market intelligence • Regulatory landscape • Advertising • EU law • Medical licensing
A new study reporting that American youth are being exposed to a growing amount of e-cigarette advertising on TV has led to further calls for marketing of the category to be regulated.
French legislators could soon be finally debating the health minister’s long-awaited proposals for a ban on the use of e-cigarettes in public places.
Market intelligence • Retail channels • Consumer spending patterns • Regulatory landscape • Specific provisions • Tax
British pharmacies have yet to fully exploit the retail opportunities presented by e-cigarettes, according to a prominent market researcher, although pharmacy professionals themselves disagree vehemently over how to approach e-cigs that aren’t medically licensed.
Feeding consumers’ hunger for information on e-cigarettes is essential if the category is to flourish at retail, according to one of the biggest British brands in the sector.
The U.S. state of Illinois is considering making child locks for bottles of e-liquid mandatory, a move which would give the state stricter rules than those planned by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is preparing to rule on a challenge to the legality of plain packaging regulations for tobacco cigarettes.
The European Union’s revised Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) becomes law in three weeks, setting it on the road to full implementation by member states in 2016.
Here is a round-up of the key facts on the U.S. e-cigarette regulation proposals released in Washington yesterday.
The new regulations for e-cigarettes and other tobacco products from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were published today in the Federal Register, beginning the process that will eventually lead to their approval and implementation.
The deeming regulations on e-cigarettes issued yesterday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were largely expected by the industry and greeted without panic, although concerns were raised over the product approval process and the underlying philosophy of regulating all nicotine-containing products in a similar way.
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