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Uncertainty caused by new regulations is sending some vapers in Europe’s Balkans region back to smoking, according to local e-cigarette associations, who say the rules in Romania and Slovenia are in urgent need of clarification.
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 e-cigarettes.
As heated tobacco products pose new questions for regulators, the UK government is holding a public consultation on potential tax regimes.
The Italian government has implemented the minimum level of restrictions required by the European Union’s (EU’s) Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). A tax of €0.393 (0.438 USD) per millilitre is imposed on all e-cig products that contain nicotine.
The FDA failed to assess the sources of comments properly when it decided not to regulate e-cigarette flavours in its final deeming rule, the authors of a new study suggest.
Companies looking to use health claims in South African e-cigarette advertising must present robust scientific data for every device, according to a new ruling.
E-cigarettes are more popular than they are successful as smoking cessation aids in Japan, according to a recent study which suggests they should therefore “not be recommended or promoted”.
An expected increase in e-liquid taxes in Hungary will not take place.
From 7th June 2017, all e-cig products launched in Denmark must meet the new requirements for notification and ones that don’t must be removed from the market. As the transitional period is approaching, questions concerning hardware notification are being raised by many of our subscribers. This guide aims to clarify any particularities you may face in the process of hardware notification.
Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election gives the e-cigarette industry some hope for the future of the sector in the country.
E-cigarette firms who already have devices on the market are manoeuvring to see how their products can serve the growing marijuana industry – and they face competition there from some well-financed start-ups.
An Indian man convicted of selling e-cigarettes is out on bail awaiting an appeal and using that time to get on with his life.
ECigIntelligence explores e-cigarette regulation in the state of New York, which is showing signs of taking a hard line toward vaping despite little existing law.
A key U.S. Senate committee voted in favour of making Dr. Scott Gottlieb the next FDA commissioner after he laid out plans to review the deeming rule that has generated so much controversy within the e-cigarette industry.
President Trump will get an early jump on naming the next U.S. surgeon general after forcing Vivek Murthy out as America’s top doctor.
Sociologist Amelia Howard will tell the 2017 Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw that a lack of trust in the e-cigarette industry leads governments around the world to introduce harsh measures against a low-risk product.
This report examines the current ways the e-cigarette industry in the U.S. has to get premarket approval from the FDA for new products, including detailed definitions of what constitutes a new product.
New York state legislators have removed measures that would have imposed restrictions on e-cigarettes and taxes on e-liquids just before passing the state budget.
In our latest report on Belgium, we find that the market is only growing slowly due to online restrictions following the implementation of the TPD. Online sales are banned, meaning sites can only offer in-store collection, and having to print packaging in three languages has proved a barrier to some manufacturers. Meanwhile, French companies – the source of much of the e-liquid – have a strong presence in the south of the country.
Legal moves in two U.S. states show them moving in almost opposite directions on e-cigarette taxation – Kansas clarifying and lowering its e-liquid tax, while Pennsylvania’s revenue department digs its heels in against a court challenge.
The man picked by Donald Trump to lead the FDA said his appointment was “an opportunity to make the framework much more comprehensive and much more viable” for alternatives to tobacco.
A year and a half after the country’s Supreme Court overturned a fine on a vape salesman, e-cigarettes remain illegal in Mexico – but they also remain openly on sale, with no prosecutions in process.
In a special interview, Tom Cole tells ECigIntelligence how his efforts are progressing to bring the e-cigarette industry relief from the FDA’s deeming regulations.
A well-known advocate of limited government has stepped up efforts to get the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to water down its deeming regulation.
As the UK embarks on its contentious exit from the European Union, what are the prevailing attitudes to vaping in Britain, and how is e-cig policy likely to develop there? We report on the opinions that matter.
The government of New Zealand has confirmed that it plans to legalise nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, and embed harm reduction concepts into law.
In this March 2017 look at regulations in California, we find that nicotine-containing products are subject to a wholesale tax of 27.3%. This tax rate will be revised periodically. Vaping in the state is treated as tobacco in regards to public usage.
Australia will not re-classify nicotine to allow the domestic sale of e-cigarettes, having refused to legalise nicotine-containing e-liquid despite appeals to support vaping for harm reduction.
The UK All Party Parliamentary Group for e-cigs will meet at the end of March 2017 for a roundtable. It switched its secretariat service provider in October 2016.
Taiwan’s proposed e-cigarette ban has been severely criticised by international legal experts on grounds of both public health and freedom of trade.
A Canadian libertarian group has objected that the country’s proposed e-cigarette legislation is too stringent, especially on the subject of advertising restrictions and treating e-cigs like tobacco.
Raising taxes on e-cigarette products would cause an increase in cross-border sales and lead to some users taking up smoking again, users told a European consultation on excise duty.
A UK parliamentary select committee is to launch an investigation into the science behind e-cigarettes.
U.S. president Donald Trump on Friday announced his intention to nominate Scott Gottlieb as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ending a months-long process watched closely by the e-cigarette industry.
Hungary has finally opened its market for sale of nicotine e-cigarettes by adopting changes to its national tobacco laws and aligning them with TPD standards. Nevertheless, Hungarian regulation remains among the most severe in Europe. Enforcement of the ban on cross-border and online sales is very efficient, making it almost impossible to buy vaping products online in Hungary. Hungary is also one of the few EU states to have banned flavours.
Taiwan is proposing a full ban on e-cigarettes, but intervention by the World Trade Organization could interfere with that plan.
A New Zealand political party has proposed providing some form of subsidy for e-cigarettes in pursuit of the country’s goal of being smoke-free by 2025.
Scotland’s government is to launch a consultation over plans to regulate advertising and marketing of e-cigarettes more tightly than in the rest of the UK.
Ethan Nadelmann, widely regarded as the outstanding U.S. proponent of drug policy reform around the world, is to share his views on the links between policy and harm reduction at this summer’s Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN).
The Cole-Bishop bill to bring forward the grandfathering date in the FDA deeming regulations could be a lifesaver for much of the U.S. e-cigarette industry – but it is not guaranteed a passage into law.
Bulgarians have taken up vaping enthusiastically – and their chief reason for doing so is the freedom to vape indoors and in public places where smoking is forbidden.
Estonia is preparing to impose an excise tax on e-liquids “to eliminate unequal competition between alternative and classical tobacco products”.
Senators have confirmed President Trump’s choice of Tom Price to be U.S. health secretary, setting up a much-anticipated nomination of the next Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief.
How effective – and in particular how cost-effective – can e-cigarettes be at a national level in the battle against smoking? These are questions governments and researchers are starting to take seriously.
Sweden, one of the last five countries to transpose Article 20 of the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), has announced draft legislation to bring the country into line with the rest of the EU on e-cigarettes
A controversial Indiana law that gave one company a virtual monopoly of e-liquid manufacturing in the state has been struck down by a federal court of appeal.
Efforts by angry vaping associations to overturn controversial e-cig taxes in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Kansas continue, despite setbacks.
New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a 10 cents per ml tax on all e-liquids, with or without nicotine.
Vape stores in Russia appear to be playing a waiting game on new e-cigarette taxes that officially came into force on 1st January – while the national consumer protection agency is calling for further regulation and enforcement.
A new UK-Chinese joint venture could bring Blu to the Chinese domestic market. But are the pricing conditions favourable for such a move?
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