Author: Barnaby Page
What e-cigarette process tells us about the US FDA’s thinking on tobacco
Written by Barnaby Page || 7th October 2021 || Blog , Regulatory briefing |
Some light is now dawning on some truths long since suspected about the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approach to tobacco-alternative products of all kinds through its cumbersome evaluation of e-cigarettes ...
False beliefs about tobacco alternatives are themselves a public health problem
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd September 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
“Misinformation poses a real threat to progress” in a major area of public health concern, we’re told – and this time it’s about the dangers of tobacco-alternative products ...
Time’s up for the US FDA to make up its mind – now where do PMTAs stand?
Written by Barnaby Page || 9th September 2021 || Blog , Regulatory briefing |
As the US Food and Drug Administration's deadline to pass or reject e-cigarette premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) arrives, where does it leave the market and what might it mean for tobacco alternatives? ...
Knee-jerk response as US AGs leap aboard the anti-flavours bandwagon
Written by Barnaby Page || 26th August 2021 || Blog , Regulatory briefing |
Are we really in the midst of a “pandemic” of oral nicotine use by young people, and if so is the answer a flavour ban? 31 US attorneys general have some answering of their own to do ...
Hardly any US teens use heated tobacco, but that doesn’t stop the fearmongering
Written by Barnaby Page || 12th August 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
Despite heated tobacco products being barely available in the US, it is now officially the next monstrous threat facing America’s youth ...
Why is the boss of Marlboro maker PMI talking up the end of smoking days?
Written by Barnaby Page || 29th July 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
Jacek Olczak, CEO of Philip Morris International (PMI), says the company could stop selling combustible cigarettes in the UK within a decade ...
PMI is busy reinventing itself as Big Tobacco prepares for life after smoking
Written by Barnaby Page || 15th July 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
Philip Morris International (PMI) has always been one of the frankest tobacco companies when it comes to speaking of the smoke-free future – now it is taking positive steps in a bold new direction ...
The Japanese innovation that could help normalise heated tobacco everywhere
Written by Barnaby Page || 1st July 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
A new development in Japan sets an example which proponents of harm reduction could do well to advocate elsewhere – the increasing trend toward heated-tobacco-only areas in public spaces ...
Could legalising snus tap into a huge potential for smoking cessation?
Written by Barnaby Page || 18th June 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
Two startling statistics emerge from a recent survey of smokers in Europe: nearly one in three (31%) of current smokers would be interested in trying snus if it became legal, but less than 3% are actually snus users...
The WHO, the where and the why
Written by Barnaby Page || 4th June 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
Advocates for novel tobacco products often get infuriated with the oppositional stance taken by the World Health Organization – but might there be some fair reason behind the WHO’s less-than-enthusiastic view? ...
Politicians and regulators just can’t stop thinking of the children
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st May 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
News that Florida is planning to increase the purchase age for tobacco products to 21 is another clear indication of just how much the issues of youth smoking and youth vaping dominate the minds of politicians and regulators...
Will nicotine be the next menthol?
Written by Barnaby Page || 7th May 2021 || Blog , Business briefing |
The big news from the US Food and Drug Administration last week was a ban on menthol in combustible cigarettes, closing off a loophole that had allowed this one flavour to be marketed even after all others were forbidden. It...
EU anti-cancer plan accused of ‘shutting the door’ on smokers trying to quit
Written by Barnaby Page || 16th March 2021 || Regulatory briefing |
As European health ministers met to discuss the EU’s Beating Cancer Plan, one influential organisation has pleaded for a rethink of its attitude toward alternative nicotine products ...
Ban public use, advertising and reduced-risk claims for HnB, says WHO group
Written by Barnaby Page || 31st December 2020 || Regulatory briefing |
All advertising and public use of heated tobacco systems should be banned by governments, a World Health Organization (WHO) committee has suggested ...
Tobacco giants go to law in bid to stop US FDA imposing graphic warnings
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th April 2020 || Regulatory briefing |
The US tobacco industry is resisting another attempt by the FDA to impose graphic health warnings, claiming in a lawsuit that mandatory warnings would violate their rights under the First Amendment ...
Studies find reduced nicotine strength doesn’t lead to increased smoking
Written by Barnaby Page || 9th March 2020 || Regulatory briefing |
Further evidence that reducing the amount of nicotine in combustibles does not lead to heavier smoking may provide encouragement for those who want to see reductions legally mandated ...
US FDA opens up nicotine toothpick question with health claim warning
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st February 2020 || Regulatory briefing |
Recent action by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against a maker of nicotine-infused toothpicks highlights an obscure corner of the tobacco-alternatives business – consisting of products which are not vapour, heated tobacco or snus ...
PMI is cleared of misleading investors over Japanese prospects for IQOS
Written by Barnaby Page || 17th February 2020 || Regulatory briefing |
Philip Morris International (PMI) did not deliberately mislead investors about clinical trials for its IQOS heated tobacco system or about the product’s prospects in Japan, a US federal court has ruled ...
EU states give a big thumbs up to tax harmony on heated tobacco and e-cigs
Written by Barnaby Page || 12th February 2020 || Regulatory briefing |
The European Union’s member states overwhelmingly want harmonised tax policies across the EU for both heated tobacco products and e-cigarettes ...
So this is Brexit – but what does it mean for tobacco law, now or later?
Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd February 2020 || Regulatory briefing |
As the UK exits Europe and enters its 11-month period of transition, what does Brexit actually mean for cross-Channel relationships, and for tobacco harm reduction? ...
WHO’s stance on harm reduction report needs updating, says report
Written by Barnaby Page || 24th January 2020 || Regulatory briefing |
A change of mind by the World Health Organization (WHO) is essential if the potential of tobacco harm reduction is to be fully achieved, according to a new report from British advocacy group Knowledge•Action•Change ...
Giants reunited? What will PMI-Altria re-merger mean for the market?
Written by Barnaby Page || 5th September 2019 || Business briefing |
TobaccoIntelligence considers the effects the possible re-merger of Philip Morris International (PMI) and Altria might have on the combustible and alternatives markets in the US and beyond ...
Nicotine, the US surgeon general, and the true science of addiction
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th February 2019 || Regulatory briefing |
Is nicotine really as addictive as heroin, as the US surgeon general claims? And what does that really mean, anyway? ECigIntelligence pits the scientific evidence against the easy soundbite ...
UK budget includes new tax on heated tobacco at higher than expected rate
Written by Barnaby Page || 30th October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The UK will next year introduce one of Europe’s highest taxes for heated tobacco (heat-not-burn) products, following an announcement in the Chancellor’s...
Heated tobacco versus e-cigarettes: what does the future hold?
Written by Barnaby Page || 17th April 2018 || Market reports |
Heated tobacco is grabbing headlines, but what else will it seize? We examine a number of market and regulatory scenarios with greatly differing outcomes for both heat-not-burn products and...
Public Health England blames the media for giving vaping a bad name
Written by Barnaby Page || 7th February 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
The latest evidence review by Public Health England credits e-cigs with helping 20,000 people a year quit smoking, and blames distorted media reporting for that figure not being a lot...
FDA committee rejects two IQOS MRTP claims, approves one
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th January 2018 || Regulatory briefing |
Agency’s science committee agrees that PMI product decreases exposure to dangerous chemicals, but won’t accept broader claims of long-term risk...
Reynolds asks FDA to give Camel Snus products ‘modified risk’ status
Written by Barnaby Page || 19th December 2017 || Regulatory briefing |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have to consider again next year the possibility that snus could be a reduced-risk form of tobacco, following a series of applications from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ...
Global health group calls for HnB restrictions until science is proven
Written by Barnaby Page || 19th December 2017 || Regulatory briefing |
The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease has called for the advertising and indoor use of heat-not-burn (HnB) products to be banned until sufficient independent research has been conducted to confirm their...
HnB v e-cigs – UK toxicity committee wants to see how they match up
Written by Barnaby Page || 18th December 2017 || Regulatory briefing |
The UK government committee which this month concluded that heat-not-burn products are safer than combustibles now wants to compare them to...
Japan’s online searches for HnB outstrip American interest in vaping
Written by Barnaby Page || 16th October 2017 || Business briefing |
The number of Google searches in Japan for topics related to heat-not-burn has rocketed, illustrating how rapidly the new nicotine technology has gained ground in that...
FDA rejects snus as modified risk – but could reconsider some aspects
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th December 2016 || Regulatory briefing |
Swedish Match has at last obtained some answers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its attempt to have snus smokeless tobacco products classified as modified risk ...
PMI bids to gain first ever FDA modified-risk approval for iQOS
Written by Barnaby Page || 6th December 2016 || Regulatory briefing |
Philip Morris International (PMI) this week submitted its iQOS technology for approval as a reduced-risk product by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...Banning novel tobacco products could violate world trade pact, lawyers say
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th November 2016 || Regulatory briefing |
Countries that ban tobacco alternative products could be breaking world trade agreements by unfairly privileging combustibles at their expense, two lawyers have warned ...
Swedish Match hopes UK will send snus case to European court
Written by Barnaby Page || 4th July 2016 || Regulatory briefing |
Swedish Match is contesting the European Union’s ban on snus in court ...
Big Tobacco encouraged by research on heat-not-burn
Written by Barnaby Page || 7th December 2015 || Business briefing |
Are big tobacco companies starting to favour heat-not-burn technology over e-cigarettes? While none has shown any signs of overtly stepping away from e-cigs, and such a move is unlikely, much enthusiasm and investment within the tobacco industry seems...
Russia becomes fourth territory for iQOS heat-not-burn trials
Written by Barnaby Page || 5th November 2015 || Business briefing |
Philip Morris International (PMI) is testing its iQOS heat-not-burn product in Russia, ECigIntelligence has...
Pax hoping to set world alight with deluxe heat-not-burn tech
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th March 2015 || Business briefing |
Pax Labs, the U.S. heat-not-burn manufacturer previously known as Ploom, today launches a new generation of its namesake device which it is positioning as “the most intelligent, premium and highest performing vaporizer in the...
Ploom and JTI agree to split up, divide heat-not-burn brands
Written by Barnaby Page || 17th February 2015 || Business briefing |
U.S. startup Ploom and its investor Japan Tobacco International (JTI) are to end their relationship and divide Ploom’s products between...
Reynolds wants “modified risk” status for heat-not-burn Revo
Written by Barnaby Page || 17th November 2014 || Business briefing , Regulatory briefing |
U.S. tobacco maker Reynolds American is preparing to test-market a heat-not-burn product which it hopes the regulator will approve as...In depth: how tobacco alternatives fit into Big Tobacco’s business
Written by Barnaby Page || 9th July 2014 || Market reports |
This special report takes a company-by-company look at the main Big Tobacco players and their activity in e-cigarettes and other tobacco alternatives ...PMI prepares for heat-not-burn rollout, plans e-cig for 2016
Written by Barnaby Page || 2nd July 2014 || Business briefing |
Philip Morris International (PMI) will no longer be conspicuous in the tobacco alternatives market by its absence ...