Barnaby Page, Author at TobaccoIntelligence

Meta-analysis study emphasises the lack of high-quality research into HnB

Written by Barnaby Page || 13th January 2022 || Blog , News analysis |

The heated tobacco sector has, compared with its cousin vapour, always suffered from a lack of scientific research and from the perception that most of what does exist is industry-funded ...

A boost for very-low-nicotine cigarettes as US FDA grants modified risk order

Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd December 2021 || News analysis |

The prospect of very-low-nicotine cigarettes becoming the next alternative product on the US market has come a significant step closer, with the FDA issuing modified risk orders for two products from 22nd Century Group ...

How will TPD3 deal with newly emerged products? Our survey offers a few clues

Written by Barnaby Page || 2nd December 2021 || Blog , News analysis |

Sooner or later the EU will have a new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), and one of the big questions will be how it treats new product categories which barely existed at the time of TPD2 ...

Califf may hit the ground running – but which way will he go on nicotine?

Written by Barnaby Page || 18th November 2021 || Blog , News analysis |

Robert Califf's expected return to head the US FDA has excited plenty of attention in the world of e-cigarettes, but there’s been much less talk about the likely impact on heated tobacco, pouches and other novel nicotine products...

Three possible reasons for WHO decision to keep alternatives out of tobacco talks

Written by Barnaby Page || 4th November 2021 || Blog , News analysis |

Why won’t the World Health Organization (WHO) talk about tobacco alternatives? It’s never been shy before about putting forward its extreme scepticism ...

Decision on e-cigs shines some light on US FDA’s likely approach to alternatives

Written by Barnaby Page || 21st October 2021 || Blog , News analysis |

While the decision to give marketing authorisation to some RJ Reynolds relates specifically to e-cigarette products, it’s highly likely that much the same priorities will govern official thinking on other alternative products ...

What e-cigarette process tells us about the US FDA’s thinking on tobacco

Written by Barnaby Page || 7th October 2021 || Blog , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

“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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 , News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || Heated tobacco market reports , 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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || News analysis |

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 || Heated tobacco market reports , Market reports , Nicotine pouches 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 || News analysis |

Philip Morris International (PMI) will no longer be conspicuous in the tobacco alternatives market by its absence ...

‘Big Tobacco’s voice should be heard in the nicotine debate’

Written by Barnaby Page || 27th June 2014 || News analysis |

The involvement of the tobacco and pharma industries could be crucial if a new international society on nicotine studies is to make a contribution to the public health and regulation debate - but that will bring its own...

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