Regulatory and market intelligence for the e-cigarette sector
The French government may be able to transpose the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into domestic law without parliamentary discussion.
The lack of long-term scientific studies into e-cigarettes is a common complaint. But the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (CTRI) is now starting to address that through a multi-year investigation of e-cigs’ health effects, backed by $3.7m in funding from the U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered three e-cigarette suppliers to stop falsely claiming that their products are FDA-endorsed.
A panel advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected attempts by Swedish Match to claim that snus is less harmful than cigarettes – yet some members did accept its assertions of reduced risk.
New surveys by the Welsh government suggest schools and businesses are able to decide e-cigarette policy on their own.
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Comparison with tobacco regulation • Public use restrictions • Age restrictions • Packaging and point-of-sale requirements • Advertising restrictions • Medical claims • Taxes • Enforcement • Case law • Regional regulatory developments • Basque Country • Other regions • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw • Expected transposition mechanism • Conclusions
Introduction • Age restrictions • Public place usage • Tax policy • Packaging/warning labels • Other regulatory measures
Hong Kong could prohibit e-cigarettes altogether following a recommendation from a public health watchdog.
The Dutch government was entitled to start implementing the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) more than a year before the deadline to bring it into force, a court has ruled.
New legal restrictions on the use of e-cigarettes came into force in Estonia this week.
Approval of an e-cigarette by a medical licensing body could have even more impact on the sector than the much-discussed EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) implementation, according to Nerudia, a consultancy and nicotine science company.
The Latvian government is considering implementing some of the toughest restrictions on e-cigarette use in the European Union, requiring all products to have a medical licence.
Executive summary • Introduction • Zoning – key facts • Utah zoning law • Local zoning laws • Potential legal challenges
Vaping in TV commercials may increase smokers’ urge to reach for a cigarette and decrease optimism among those that quit tobacco, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication suggests.
After putting into force temporary rules on e-cigarettes last month, the Netherlands has now moved closer to implementing the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) with a proposal for fuller legislation.
Health experts have called on the UK government to support e-cigs through light-touch regulation.
While delegates to this week’s World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi presumably must decide which of the title’s categories e-cigarettes fall into, those who’ve missed it have another choice to make: just how many of the plethora of e-cig-related events in upcoming months they should attend. The conference in the United Arab […]
A study shows that e-cigarette retailers have some work to do before they can comply with legislation on minimum purchasing ages.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is committed to a June release of its long-awaited – and some claim much-delayed – deeming regulations on e-cigarettes and other tobacco-related products, the agency’s departing commissioner assured senators last week.
Canada is taking the first steps toward much-desired federal regulation of e-cigarettes with the release of a parliamentary committee report making detailed recommendations on the shape of national law.
New proposals by the Danish government to transpose the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into Denmark’s domestic law are the first comprehensive attempt to do so by any European country.
Market analysis • Market size • Consumption patterns • Pricing • Sales and distribution • Brands • Raw materials and manufacturing • Regulatory analysis • Medical regulation • Personal use exemption • Public place usage • Advertising • Regulatory outlook – policy change? • Regulatory authority
Belgium at a glance
E-cigarettes containing nicotine are medical products and must be licensed by the regulator, a Swedish appeals court has ruled.
As the change of seasons edged closer over February and early March, headlines in the e-cigarette sector were a sometimes confusing mix of storm clouds and sunshine.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is this week again hoping to gather more insight on e-cigarettes as it ponders the final form of its deeming regulations.
In her final days as head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Margaret Hamburg is receiving accolades from Republicans and Democrats alike on her six years in what many call one of the toughest jobs in government.
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Canada’s third-largest province is poised to introduce e-cigarette rules including a public vaping ban, as provincial governments across the country move to cut across the regulatory confusion created by an uncertain federal position.
About two thirds of large countries have some form of e-cigarette regulation, and they tend to control the products using existing laws relating to tobacco or nicotine, according to new research.
The Danish government has drafted a bill which will allow e-cigarettes to be sold as consumer products – but which also introduces heavy restrictions on their design, marketing and use.
A bill requiring child-resistant packaging for liquid nicotine containers once again sailed through a key U.S. Senate committee last week on a voice vote.
Executive summary • Market size • Consumption patterns • Pricing and spend • Sales, distribution and marketing • Brands • Manufacturing
The Netherlands at a glance
As counterfeiting and cloning become growing problems for the e-cigarette industry, one German-Russian supplier has issued a cease-and-desist notice to manufacturers and vendors which it claims are marketing rip-off products.
Vaping in France is largely an activity of younger people, according to new figures from government health researchers.
The new tax regime now confirmed for e-cigarettes and e-liquid in Italy is likely to double the price of some products and dramatically narrow the gap with tobacco.
The Californian nonprofit threatening to sue e-cigarette companies over their product labelling says it hopes to pressure the entire industry into marketing e-cigs that are safer and carry mandatory warnings.
Introduction • The matrix of authority • State government regulation • Local government regulation • Regulation by quasi-governmental institutions • Regulatory trends • Appendix: state law on tobacco and consumer protection
Tax proposals in the U.S. state of Washington would nearly double the price of e-cigarettes, e-liquid and accessories.
Irish law-makers may have to choose between two competing proposals for regulating e-cigarettes.
Market analysis • Market size • Consumption patterns • Number of e-cig users in Russia • Pricing and exchange rates • Sales, distribution and brands • Regulatory analysis • Introduction • Russian regulatory landscape • Current e-cig regulation • Tobacco regulation • The future of e-cig regulation in Russia
UK e-liquid producer Totally Wicked is hoping to drum up support for its challenge to the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) through a new Website.
ECigIntelligence looks back at the e-cigarette stories of the last month that you can’t afford to miss.
Executive summary • Introduction • Dutch regulatory powers • Previous Dutch e-cig regulation • New regulation in detail • Definition of e-cigarette • Advertising • Ingredients • Additives • Packaging • Instruction leaflet • Child-proofing • E-liquid volume and nicotine concentration • What next?
The Netherlands will next month become the first country in the European Union to start enforcing legislation that has been enacted in anticipation of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
Authorities in Mexico have seized nearly 10,000 e-cigarette “devices and accessories”, according to reports.
Californian legislators will soon consider another proposal to bring e-cigarettes into the ambit of tobacco legislation, with effects including a widespread ban on vaping in public places.
Market analysis • Market context • Market size • Consumption patterns • Pricing and spend • Sales, distribution and marketing • Raw materials and manufacturing • Regulatory analysis • Regulatory overview • National regulation • Provincial regulation • Local regulation • Non-governmental regulation • Regulatory trends • Appendix 1: national law • Appendix 2: lawsuit – D Beelders vs Smokestik SA CC, and complaint against Twisp • Further information
Are e-cigs and other tobacco substitutes welcome on passenger planes? Are they a danger, an infringement of near-universal strict rules against in-flight smoking, or a benign product that passengers might appreciate?
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