Regulatory and market intelligence for the e-cigarette sector
A team of tobacco control scholars has come under fire for omitting an important finding on e-cigarettes from the abstract of their latest scientific paper.
A French government agency found significant irregularities in tested e-liquid samples and e-cigarette chargers.
As the U.S. e-cig industry and policy-makers alike await the final version of the Food and Drug Administration’s deeming regulations, two conferences will be held in the Washington area next week to discuss a spectrum of issues related to tobacco and nicotine policies.
Regulators should set a standard methodology for the pharmacokinetic tests that measure how much nicotine is in vapers’ or smokers’ blood, say scientists at British American Tobacco (BAT).
A new Welsh survey has found little use of e-cigarettes among consumers who have never smoked. But is the evidence enough to prevent a proposed public vaping ban from coming into force?
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • National regulatory framework post-TPD • Age restrictions • Product restrictions • Ingredients • Labelling and packaging • Product notification • Annual reporting • Vigilance • Retailing • Public usage • North Rhine-Westphalia • Bavaria • Baden-Württemberg • Lower Saxony • Hesse • Public usage: an inconsistent future? • Advertising and marketing • Taxation • Enforcement • Case law: e-cigarettes as medical products • Case law: e-cigarettes as tobacco products • Case law: tobacco advertising restrictions • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw • Graphic: how German e-cigarette regulation will change
Experienced users should not be dismissed as unreliable sources of insight when e-cigarettes are being discussed, and their advice can be valuable for those just starting to vape or considering it, according to a British researcher.
The number and strength of chemicals absorbed in the blood of e-cigarette users is dramatically lower than in those who smoke tobacco, according to a new test of exhaled breath.
Looking like a regular cigarette is an advantage for e-cig products aiming to poach users away from tobacco, new research suggests.
A new study carried out in Hawaii is said to be the first “to attempt to elucidate the contexts of e-cigarette and cigarette use among dual users”, examining issues ranging from consumption patterns to motivations.
Two of vaping’s most eminent scientific advocates have called for bespoke regulatory regimes that follow neither the tobacco nor the pharmaceutical model, but they acknowledge that formulating appropriate rules can be a “very challenging process”.
While some critics fear that exposure to e-cigarettes and e-cig advertising among young people can lead to them taking up nicotine, a new study in Scotland suggests that awareness doesn’t always mean action.
An American public health organisation has declared that there is insufficient evidence to approve e-cigarettes as aids for smoking cessation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is this week proposing a new rule that will make it clearer when tobacco products should be considered as drugs or medical devices, and regulated accordingly.
Counterblasts against Public Health England’s nearly unequivocal support for e-cigarettes were only to be expected, and their trajectory has been laid out by two of Britain’s most eminent general medical journals, The Lancet and The BMJ. But their arguments are neither nuanced nor practical, and are muddled by dislike of the tobacco industry.
Executive summary • Introduction • FDA enforcement authority • Development of FDA e-cigarette enforcement • Compliance strategies for the industry • Risk posed by patents
The Irish government has decided not to extend the country’s smoking ban to e-cigarettes, citing the lack of evidence for harm – but the advertising self-regulatory body in Ireland has taken a slightly harder line.
There has been little study or comment on e-cigs so far from professional bodies in dental health, or from dental researchers.
But that may now be changing, with increased interest from some corners of the dental profession in e-cigs’ role as potential reducers of harm to oral health.
The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has banned the use of electronic cigarettes in park concessions, as well as within all government facilities and vehicles. But the prohibition does not apply outdoors.
U.S. president Barack Obama has chosen Rob Califf, currently the deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to head up the agency.
British politicians this week heard praise from e-cigarette advocates for the recent endorsement of e-cigs by Public Health England (PHE), but some proponents argued that PHE’s backing was too little too late and failed to address serious short-term problems that they believe the industry faces in the UK.
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current regulatory framework • Product categorisation • Age restrictions • Product restrictions • Notification procedure • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Cross-border sales • Taxation • Case law • Enforcement • Conclusions • Graphic: how Portuguese e-cigarette regulation will change
Regulatory tracker showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes around the world.
Regulatory tracker showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes in the U.S.
Regulatory tracker showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes in Europe.
Differing limits set by e-cigarette manufacturing associations for diacetyl and acetylpropionyl in e-liquids seem likely to lead to confusion and acrimony.
Regulatory tracker showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes in Europe.
Regulatory tracker showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes in the U.S.
Regulatory tracker showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes around the world.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned tobacco companies including R.J. Reynolds and Imperial Tobacco to stop describing some of their combustible cigarettes as “additive-free” or “natural”.
Governments of poorer countries need to regulate e-cigarettes just as much as their wealthier counterparts, and ought to opt for a pharmaceutical model – but they may find it difficult, according to a new paper by two U.S. academics.
Public Health England has voiced its support for e-cigarettes backed by newly commissioned research into their potential impact on consumer health and use in harm reduction as well as smoking cessation.
The east African nation of Uganda appears to have become one of the small handful that ban e-cigarettes altogether, rolling a blanket prohibition into a stiff new tobacco control act.
Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Age restrictions • Packaging and product restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Case law • Taxation • Enforcement • The future • Graphic: how Bulgarian e-cigarette regulation will change
New studies attempting to determine causes of youth e-cigarette use have found some correlation with factors such as vaping or smoking by other household members, peer pressure, economic deprivation and ethnicity.
A prominent British public-health charity has thrown its weight behind vaping, saying that the public needs educating on e-cigarettes’ health benefits compared with combustibles.
Our review of the top e-cigarette regulatory stories recently in the news.
Researchers in the U.S. have developed a model for predicting the amount of nicotine emitted by e-cigarettes, which they say could gauge the expected yield of a device before it is even built.
Californian senator Mark Leno’s e-cigarette bill is back, despite seeming to have died last month after a legislative committee tore out some of its most significant measures.
An in-depth look at the regulation and legislation ruling the South Korean e-cigarette market.
A new interactive map showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes around the world.
A new interactive map showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes in Europe.
A new interactive map showing the changing legislative landscape for e-cigarettes in the U.S.
Among all the groups that could benefit from e-cigarettes for harm reduction, perhaps none is as contentious as pregnant women.
ECigIntelligence next month launches ECigIntelligence Platinum, the most comprehensive package of regulatory and business information available for the e-cigarette market anywhere in the world.
Infographic showing how the level of e-cigarette regulation in different territories appears to have an impact on vaping prevalence.
Only about one in 30 Americans fully understand the relative health risks of different nicotine products, according to a new study.
A Florida cancer research centre has been given $3.6m (€3.3m) for a long-running study of how e-cigarettes are used by consumers and whether they help vapers quit tobacco.
State governments in Australia and the U.S. are moving to stop the use of e-cigarettes in cars where children are present.
A new interactive map showing the changing legislative landscape in the U.S.A.
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