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Oklahoma governor won’t ‘give an inch’ on tribal nations tobacco tax revenues
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 26th September 2023 || News analysis |
The governor of Oklahoma, Republican Kevin Stitt, says losing a disagreement over tobacco tax will force him to give up half his state to tribal nations ...
Canadian tobacco regulation review may include requiring manufacturers to pay
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd September 2023 || News analysis |
The Canadian government has begun a legislative review of the country’s tobacco legislation, saying it wants to reduce the number of smokers nationwide ...
Sweden’s stance on snus and cigarettes seen in upcoming tax cuts and hikes
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th September 2023 || News analysis |
The Swedish government has proposed a tax reduction on snus of about 20% while increasing the tax on cigarettes and smoking tobacco by 9% ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 11th-15th September
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th September 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
Russia starts implementing changes as part of its tobacco regulatory overhaul
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 15th September 2023 || News analysis |
Suppliers of novel nicotine products to the Russian market face new licensing requirements and tax increases over several years as the government overhauls its regulatory system ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 4th-8th September
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th September 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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Podcast: Present and future trends in vape, heated tobacco and nicotine pouch products
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th September 2023 || Podcasts |
In this podcast we speak to Aron Byrne-Carter, whose company NGP Trends provides businesses with valuable technical insights on the latest developments across vape, heated tobacco and nicotine pouch products ...
Looking into nicotine – non-tobacco sources for research and even benefits
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th September 2023 || News analysis |
Despite increasing interest in synthetic nicotine, most nicotine still comes from tobacco. But could other plants also be a commercially viable source of the substance? ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 28th August-1st September
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th September 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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Regulatory database: global alerts round-up, September
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th September 2023 || Alerts Array , Heated tobacco regulatory data , Nicotine pouches regulatory data , Regulatory data |
All the stories from the TobaccoIntelligence regulatory Live Alerts in one user-friendly database, updated every month ...
Italy implements EU HTP flavour ban, but ambiguity could cause misinterpretation
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st September 2023 || News analysis |
Italy’s parliament has passed a law implementing the EU ban on flavours in heated tobacco – but ambiguity in its definition of the category may lead to difficulties in interpretation ...
South Africa’s bill to toughen tobacco rules elicits mixed reactions from public
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st August 2023 || News analysis |
South Africans have expressed mixed reactions to the country’s Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill, which aims to strengthen the law and would create new rules affecting tobacco products ...
Lithuania works on draft nicotine pouch legislation amid shadow market fears
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th August 2023 || News analysis |
Nicotine pouch sales are currently banned in Lithuania, but that could soon change, as amendments are in the works to the country’s Law I-1143 on the control of tobacco, tobacco products and related products ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 21st-25th August
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th August 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 14th-18th August
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st August 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 7th-11th August
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th August 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
With new law Italy is set to prohibit the direct online sale of nicotine pouches
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th August 2023 || News analysis |
Italy has stepped back at the last minute from imposing a formal permanent ban on the online sale of nicotine...
Venezuela joins the list of countries outlawing heated tobacco and vapes
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 11th August 2023 || News analysis |
Venezuela is the latest Latin American country to issue a government decree banning nationwide sales, consumption, exports and distribution of heated tobacco and vapes ...
BAT’s Zonnic approval ‘could open a path into Canada for other nicotine pouches’
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th August 2023 || News analysis |
Health Canada has approved the first nicotine pouch authorised for sale in Canada as an over-the-counter cessation aid – a move some say could open the door to other nicotine pouches hitting the market ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 31st July-4th August
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 7th August 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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HeatSticks could be Philip Morris’s silver lining after court ruling on cigarettes
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st August 2023 || News analysis |
Sales of HeatSticks could ironically end up benefitting from a US legal battle lost by their manufacturer Philip Morris and other leading tobacco companies ...
RJ Reynolds wants judge’s rejection of US FDA’s graphic health warnings upheld
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st July 2023 || News analysis |
Lawyers for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company call the US Food and Drug Administration’s defence of its graphic cigarette warnings “half-hearted” in a new legal brief ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 24th-28th July
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st July 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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Belgian minister urges EU-wide ban on ‘polluting and dangerous’ cigarette filters
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th July 2023 || News analysis |
Filtered cigarettes are as dangerous as those without filters and should be banned, Belgium’s environment minister told TobaccoIntelligence, supporting a call by the country’s Superior Health Council (CSS) ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 17th-21st July
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th July 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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UK’s Kingsway Capital seeks exit from stake in UAE’s AIR as AIR looks to IPO
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st July 2023 || News analysis |
Dubai-based tobacco company Advanced Inhalation Rituals is planning to go public next year and has invited banks to pitch for roles in its IPO, as parent company Kingsway Capital seeks to sell its stake ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 10th-14th July
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th July 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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Pirates refuse to walk the government line on Czechs’ nicotine pouch tax plan
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th July 2023 || News analysis |
The Czech Pirate Party, a member of the government coalition, has voiced opposition to the cabinet’s proposal to impose a tax of CZK3.45 (€0.14) per g on nicotine pouches and “other nicotine products” ...
Denmark explores stricter laws and enforcement to curb rising nicotine use
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th July 2023 || News analysis |
The Danish health minister is considering increased age limits, higher prices and more severe sanctions for stores breaking the law to address rising use of nicotine products in the country ...
Is Anvisa about to think again on keeping Brazil’s heated tobacco ban in force?
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th July 2023 || News analysis |
A relaxation of the ban on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco in Brazil could be around the corner following a public consultation, according to some commentators in the country ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 3rd-7th July
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 12th July 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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Nicotine pouches demo tracker
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th July 2023 || Resources , Trial versions |
The TobaccoIntelligence Nicotine Pouch Product Tracker, available exclusively to subscribers, provides a detailed, comparative analysis of thousands of products in the largest nicotine pouch markets around the world (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the...
Argentina’s shocked tobacco farmers put up a fight against HTP production ban
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th July 2023 || News analysis |
Tobacco growers in Argentina are continuing efforts – so far unsuccessful – to overturn a resolution banning the production of heated tobacco products in the country ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 26th-30th June
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd July 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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Finland gets answers on nicotine pouch regulations with new government
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th June 2023 || News analysis |
Following recent uncertainy, Finland’s newly formed government has confirmed that the legal status of nicotine pouches in the country will not change ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 19th-23rd June
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 26th June 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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High smoking rates expected to keep boosting heated tobacco in Ukraine
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd June 2023 || News analysis |
Increased smoking rates could mean a boon for heated tobacco brands in Ukraine, analysts predict, and overall demand for heated tobacco products is expected to increase ...
Finland’s chemicals agency moves to ban ‘dangerously strong’ nicotine pouches
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd June 2023 || News analysis |
The Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes) has banned the sale and marketing of pouches containing 20 mg or more of nicotine ...
Cannabis use may cut smoking – but what harm lies in using both together?
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd June 2023 || Blog |
Individuals in the US who use cannabis are three times more likely to be cigarette smokers than those who do not use cannabis. However, this statistic is an example of the “gateway drug fallacy” ...
European intellectual property regulatory database
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd June 2023 || Regulatory data |
The database covers essential aspects of the intellectual property regulatory framework, including the duration of rights, fees, procedures, as well as the responsible bodies overseeing the regime in each European country ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 12th-16th June
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th June 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 5th-9th June
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th June 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
BAT petitions Belgium not to ban nicotine pouches, but to follow the Swedish model
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th June 2023 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) will petition Belgium’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, to annul a royal decree set to ban the sale of nicotine pouches from 1st October ...
Bangladesh budget proposes spike in taxes to get harm down and revenue up
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th June 2023 || News analysis |
The Bangladeshi government’s latest annual budget proposal lists a substantial rise in taxes on nicotine products, including heated tobacco devices and combustibles ...
Finnish health groups ask retailers to hold nicotine pouch sales for revised laws
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 12th June 2023 || News analysis |
Finnish public health organisations have sent a joint open letter to retailers, urging them not to sell nicotine pouches while tobacco laws are being revised. Pouch sales boomed after they stopped being classified as medicinal ...
Danish authorities fight uphill battle with retailers over tax law compliance
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 9th June 2023 || News analysis |
More than half of the tobacco retailers inspected by the Danish Customs and Tax Administration at the beginning of this year were found to be non-compliant with new tax rules ...Weekly regulatory podcast: 29th May-2nd June
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 7th June 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |
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‘Poison in every puff’ – Canada demands health warnings on every single cigarette
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st June 2023 || News analysis |
Canada is about to become the first country in the world to require health warnings on individual cigarettes, little cigars and other tobacco products ...
Belgium aims to bring herbal products under clarified heated tobacco rules
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st May 2023 || News analysis |
Herbal products and devices will fall under the Belgian regulatory framework for tobacco if a bill to incorporate Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/2100, submitted into the EU TRIS database, goes into effect unchanged ... Start your FREE trial
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