Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd October 2019 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has grated its first ever modified risk orders to eight snus products from Swedish Match, which can now be advertised as less harmful than traditional cigarettes ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th March 2019 || News analysis |
A new survey reveals that more than half of Spaniards would restrict the use of vaping and novel tobacco products in public places in the same way as...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 18th February 2019 || News analysis |
A new decree in Belarus regulates electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco for the first time in the country, introducing a number of restrictions after years of no...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 14th December 2018 || News analysis |
Italy has passed the much anticipated law reducing tax on e-liquids and halving duties on heated tobacco. The decree cuts the duty on nicotine-containing liquids from 50% to 10% of the tax on conventional...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 22nd November 2018 || News analysis |
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld the ban on the sale of snus which has applied since 1992 in the whole EU except Sweden, which was granted an exemption under the 2014 Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 12th October 2018 || News analysis |
PMI confidently expects to shift more heated tobacco devices and consumables in the next few years as a fall is anticipated in sales of combustible cigarettes ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd October 2018 || News analysis |
The EU is calling on the World Health Organization to become more involved in regulating heated tobacco – and is urging tight advertising restrictions on the category ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 28th September 2018 || News analysis |
Imperial Brands has confirmed the launch of its first heated tobacco product, Pulze, in early 2019 in Japan, which is proving a fertile market for heat-not-burn (HnB) ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 25th September 2018 || News analysis |
Most respondents to the European Commission’s consultation on tobacco excise duties do not want a European tax on e-cigarettes. Almost 70% said the best level of tax on e-cigarettes would be no more than the VAT in each...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd August 2018 || News analysis |
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signed an administrative order prohibiting the import and marketing of any e-cigarette product with a nicotine concentration higher than 20...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 30th July 2018 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) has a chance to steal a march on its Big Tobacco rivals in the heated-tobacco market after the company became the first to receive approval to sell a heat-not-burn device in the US ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 24th July 2018 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) is seeking an “urgent meeting” with the UK Department of Health after being told to stop advertising its heated tobacco device...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 11th June 2018 || News analysis |
A few weeks after the launch of the Juul vaping device on the Israeli market, the Ministry of Health has announced restrictive measures against its sale, claiming it contains too much...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 6th June 2018 || News analysis |
The Netherlands is pulling out of a number of international e-cigarette and tobacco committees, blaming industry interference, but will carry on with regulation of heated tobacco and nicotine-free...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 25th May 2018 || News analysis |
Concern over a future European tax on e-cigarettes is sure to rise following the launch of a second consultation on the subject by European Union (EU)...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 21st May 2018 || News analysis |
Imperial Brands will focus on its next generation portfolio and expand its e-cigarette Myblu into new markets in order to give itself a better alternative to traditional tobacco...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 18th May 2018 || News analysis |
PMI expects its reduced-risk portfolio and continued good performance in Asian countries to continue to drive growth and aims to have at least 30% of its shipment volume to consist of new tobacco products by 2025 ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 2nd May 2018 || News analysis |
While sales of traditional cigarettes continue to decline worldwide, PMI is increasingly relying on its heated-tobacco device IQOS to buoy up its financial results, particularly through sales in Japan and Korea ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 26th March 2018 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International has ceased production of traditional cigarettes at its Papastratos factory in the Athens suburb of Aspropyrgos in Greece, which will now manufacture only Heets, the tobacco sticks for...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 22nd March 2018 || News analysis |
E-cigarettes and heated tobacco are currently subject to very little regulation in Russia – but that could be about to change, with proposals coming from both the federal trade ministry and the Moscow City Duma ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 7th March 2018 || News analysis |
A new public consultation by the tax authorities in Brussels aims to help set a standard excise duty for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products at European...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 27th February 2018 || News analysis |
PMI and the Ferrari Formula 1 team have confirmed their partnership for the 2018 Grand Prix season, but the IQOS logo has not yet appeared on the Italian team’s new...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 16th February 2018 || News analysis |
As tobacco giants Philip Morris International (PMI) and Japan Tobacco (JT) have been hit by falling tobacco sales, revenues from their e-cigarette and heat-not-burn (HnB) portfolios have increased ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th February 2018 || News analysis |
Authorities in the Catalonia region of Spain are investigating whether PMI broke Spanish law with a series of online banner advertisements for its IQOS heated tobacco...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 25th January 2018 || News analysis |
PMI is strongly rumoured to be preparing sponsorship deals with Ferrari and Ducati to promote its IQOS heated-tobacco brand on the world motor-racing circuits of Formula 1 and MotoGP ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 15th January 2018 || News analysis |
Israel is in the process of taking a new approach to the advertising of new tobacco-related products, with a likely ban on all advertising of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products anywhere but in print and at retail...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 12th January 2018 || News analysis |
The European Commission has said it will review the future tax situation of e-cigarettes and heated-tobacco products in 2019, and will not propose a revision of the Directive 2011/64/EU on excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 14th December 2017 || News analysis |
The Swiss Federal Council has put forward a second draft of its proposed Tobacco Act, which aims specifically to regulate e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn (HnB)...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 2nd December 2017 || News analysis |
Tighter regulation “is on the way” for e-cigs, according to the European Commission’s commissioner for health and food safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, who sees “possibilities” for “stronger regulation” to “stop advertising and online...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 27th November 2017 || News analysis |
The European Commission is considering whether to propose an EU-wide tax on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, but may choose not to do so for now, following a public...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 20th November 2017 || News analysis |
Big Tobacco is moving towards a smoke-free future, with all the leading companies indicating a focus in 2018 on next generation products, whether e-cigarettes or heated tobacco...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 10th November 2017 || News analysis |
A new market report from ECigIntelligence reveals the growth in global internet traffic to heated tobacco websites since the launch of heat-not-burn products by some Big Tobacco...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 23rd October 2017 || News analysis |
BAT has announced the launch of its Glo heat-not-burn (HnB) device in Russia, where the device can be bought online and Neostiks consumables will be available in branded stores ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 10th August 2017 || News analysis |
Increasing demand for smoke-free products is leading many tobacco companies to open new facilities for heat-not-burn manufacturing – in some cases, even replacing...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd August 2017 || News analysis |
More than a tenth of Italians trying to give up smoking (10.7%) use e-cigarettes to help them – more than any other cessation aids – but the vast majority use no aid at...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 20th July 2017 || News analysis |
The $49.4bn takeover of Reynolds American by British American Tobacco (BAT) is set to go through next week after being approved by shareholders of both...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 5th July 2017 || News analysis |
South Korea’s largest tobacco manufacturer, KT&G, is to start selling a new heat-not-burn (HnB) product, in direct competition with PMI’s iQOS and BAT’s Glo...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 15th March 2017 || News analysis |
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...
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 25th January 2017 || News analysis |
The New Nicotine Alliance is to join an attempt by manufacturer Swedish Match to overturn the UK’s snus ban. If successful, the bid could lead to the smokeless tobacco product being legalised throughout the EU ...
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