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Tamarind Intelligence – analysis and data trusted by governments and beyond
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th March 2023 || Blog |
Tamarind Intelligence data continues to be an invaluable tool used by governments and NGOs around the world, contributing to a wide number of government and supra-national projects ...
Finnish working group recommends tougher rules for all nicotine products
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th March 2023 || News analysis |
Continuing tax increases, raising the age limit to 20, restrictions on imports, and further extensions of smoke-free environments are among ideas being considered in Finland for all tobacco-related products ...
Europe taking on novel products as it aims for a ‘tobacco-free environment’
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th March 2023 || News analysis |
A European Council recommendation due in the autumn will be “a recommendation for a tobacco-free environment, regardless of the form tobacco takes” ...
Opinions on new nicotine products among MEPs: a survey
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd March 2023 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
For the third year running, in late 2022 we surveyed members of the European Parliament (MEPs) about their views on new nicotine products – e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches. This report details our findings ...
EU lawmakers becoming less aware and less confident on novel nicotine products
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd March 2023 || News analysis |
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are less aware of key issues surrounding new nicotine products than in previous years and often less confident in their views, according to new research ...
Regulatory database: global alerts round-up, March
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd March 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. This regulatory tool consolidates all of our global regulatory Live Alerts, collected in Excel database format, allowing you to filter information by date,...
Importation and exportation of oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in the US
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st March 2023 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report provides a comprehensive summary of the import and export regulations in place for smokeless tobacco products – oral tobacco and nicotine pouches – in the US ...
Importation and exportation of heated tobacco products in the US
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th February 2023 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report provides a comprehensive summary of the import and export regulations in place for heated tobacco products in the US, including FDA and Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau requirements ...
Mexico’s ‘unconstitutional’ clampdown on tobacco use runs into a legal storm
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st February 2023 || News analysis |
Members of Mexico’s tobacco, restaurant and retail industries say an executive order laying down new regulations for the tobacco industry is unconstitutional and will be brought down in court ...
Proposed new EU packaging and waste rules evoke strong but mixed response
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 15th February 2023 || News analysis |
The European Commission has issued a proposal for a revision of EU legislation on packaging and packaging waste, which could have profound long-term consequences for the tobacco alternatives industry ...
Nicotine pouch regulatory trends across the US, comparing geographical areas
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th February 2023 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report analyses how each of the four geographical regions in the US regulate nicotine pouches in the areas of taxation, product restrictions, retail channel and youth access restrictions, and advertising, noting similarities and differences ...
Finland to approve heated tobacco flavour ban, other EU countries to follow
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th February 2023 || News analysis |
Finland is among the first EU countries to take concrete steps towards banning flavours for heated tobacco products. The Finnish parliament has approved the government’s proposal to add to the Finnish Tobacco Act the definition of heated tobacco and to ban...
Heated tobacco regulatory trends across the US, comparing geographical areas
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th February 2023 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report analyses how each of the four geographical regions in the US regulate heated tobacco in the areas of taxation, product restrictions, retail channel and youth access restrictions, and advertising, noting similarities and differences ...
Indonesia’s tobacco regulation revision plan takes a long-awaited step forward
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st January 2023 || News analysis |
After years of political debate, Indonesia is finally making progress towards regulating heated tobacco products. Because Indonesia considers heated tobacco to be a type of e-cigarette, e-cig rules apply ...
Lawmakers in the Czech Republic look to regulate nicotine pouches in two acts
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th January 2023 || News analysis |
The Czech Republic could extend regulations of tobacco products and e-cigarettes to nicotine pouches, put age restrictions on the sale of pouches, and regulate their composition, labelling, notification and other requirements ...
Ukrainian regulator takes legal action to investigate PMI’s advertising of Iqos
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 20th January 2023 || News analysis |
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has taken a case against Philip Morris Sales and Distribution for violating unfair competition laws, the regulator announced earlier this month ...
Roman court to settle battle over JTI’s claim low-level menthol isn’t a flavour
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 11th January 2023 || News analysis |
An upcoming court ruling in Rome could help to determine whether a European Commission directive prohibiting the addition of a “characterising flavour” to conventional cigarettes is sufficiently clear ...
US survey reveals no post-pandemic bounce back in teenage nicotine use
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 5th January 2023 || News analysis |
Nicotine use among US adolescents remained stable in 2022, after a significant decrease in 2020 and 2021, according to a national survey ...
Egypt’s former tobacco monopoly teams up with PMI for a future in alternatives
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th December 2022 || News analysis |
Tobacco alternatives are beginning to flourish in Egypt and heated tobacco as well as vaping products are expected to become more important as Egyptian manufacturers start to get involved ...
Other tobacco giants may follow where PMI leads into the Baltic states
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd December 2022 || News analysis |
Global tobacco companies could be looking to the Baltic states, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, for expansion after having had to cut operations in Ukraine and Russia ...
Measures are ‘being considered’, but no change is likely in Australian HnB policy
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd December 2022 || News analysis |
Australian authorities have not announced any change in policy on heated tobacco in the run-up to a new national tobacco plan. This has left the status of heat-not-burn (HnB) products unchanged ...
Doubts galore as Russia reconsiders all its tax options for tobacco alternatives
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st December 2022 || News analysis |
In its latest move to regulate the market for tobacco alternatives, the Russian government is proposing to increase excise rates on heated tobacco sticks – but there are competing proposals ...
Botswana prepares to implement new ‘life-saving’ restrictions on tobacco
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th December 2022 || News analysis |
Proposed tobacco regulations in Botswana that would restrict the sale and marketing of tobacco – including heated tobacco products – but leave vaping products unaffected have been hailed by public health experts ...
Italy’s new government reduces planned increases in heated tobacco taxation
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th December 2022 || News analysis |
Excise duties on cigarettes in Italy will increase from 1st January, while those on heated tobacco and e-liquids will not rise at the rate previously laid out, under the new Italian government’s 2023 Budget Bill ...
US: smokeless tobacco product regulation – federal packaging requirements, December 2022
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 7th December 2022 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report outlines all of the federal packaging requirements for smokeless tobacco products in the US ...
US: heated tobacco regulation – federal packaging requirements, December 2022
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 7th December 2022 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report outlines the federal packaging requirements for heated tobacco products in the US ...
Anti-smoking group sues Health Canada while calling for a nicotine-free future
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st December 2022 || News analysis |
An anti-smoking group is taking the Canadian government to court in a bid to force it to complete its review of the federal law governing tobacco and vaping products ...
Regulatory database: international stakeholders in the tobacco alternatives market
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th November 2022 || Heated tobacco regulatory data , Nicotine pouches regulatory data , Regulatory data |
TobaccoIntelligence’s international directory of stakeholders in the alternative tobacco sector allows you to find the most relevant organisations in key markets, with full web, email, phone and address...
Tax hikes due in Morocco to finance health bill and address country’s deficit
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th November 2022 || News analysis |
The Moroccan government will look to increase taxes on some tobacco alternative products in a move to finance a costly health bill in 2023 and address the country's deficit in an attempt to balance the budget ...
Californian voters come out strongly in favour of banning tobacco flavours
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th November 2022 || News analysis |
In one of many skirmishes over proposed flavour bans popping up around the US, Californians have voted to approve Proposition 31, upholding a 2020 law that would prohibit the sale of certain flavoured tobacco products ...
The Red Wave that wasn’t turns out an electoral letdown for US tobacco industry
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th November 2022 || News analysis |
Disappointment for the Republican Party, who were expecting great things from the US midterm elections, was also disappointment for a tobacco industry looking forward to a kinder legislative environment had the vote gone as predicted ...
Sweden’s shift to the right could be good news for tobacco alternatives industry
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 15th November 2022 || News analysis |
Sweden’s general election in September was potentially a win for the alternative tobacco products industry, with the new right-wing minority government likely to take a more lenient stance than its predecessor ...
Pouch users ‘at risk of taking in more nicotine than smokers’ – German study
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th November 2022 || News analysis |
Using nicotine pouches can lead to higher nicotine intake than smoking, according to Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) ...
Big Tobacco companies on the road to leaving Russian domestic market
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 7th November 2022 || News analysis |
Tobacco producers from around the globe plan to complete their exit from the Russian market by the end of the year by transferring business to local partners, according to recent statements made by company representatives ...
US midterm elections: a look at the forecast outcomes and what’s at stake
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th November 2022 || News analysis |
The 8th November US midterm elections are just around the corner, and while the Republicans are favoured to win the majority, regardless of the outcome, things will change dramatically ...
How US midterm election results could affect tobacco and vaping legislation
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th November 2022 || News analysis |
With the 8th November US midterm elections getting closer by the day, it looks like Republicans will seize control of Capitol Hill – overall good news for the tobacco and vaping industries ...
European Commission approves PMI’s planned takeover of Swedish Match
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st November 2022 || News analysis |
EU antitrust regulators have conditionally approved the takeover of Swedish nicotine pouch specialist Swedish Match by the tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) for an estimated €16bn ...
Nicotine pouch consumers – a UK/US comparison
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st October 2022 || Market reports , Nicotine pouches market reports |
TobaccoIntelligence launched a consumer survey in May 2022 to analyse the patterns among nicotine pouch users in the UK and the US ...
Questions raised after Colombia drops plans for heated tobaccon taxation
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th October 2022 || News analysis |
The Colombian government appears to have given up on plans to raise levies on heated tobacco and e-cigarette products, to the dismay of some of its own supporters ...
PMI invests $150m to increase Heets production in the Philippines
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th October 2022 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) is investing an additional PHP8.8bn ($150m) in its affiliate company PMFTC to increase production of its heated tobacco sticks in the Philippines ...
Drug Establishment Licence doesn’t let TJP Labs sell pouches in Canada – yet
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th October 2022 || News analysis |
A Canadian company says Health Canada’s decision to grant it a Drug Establishment Licence (DEL) is another step towards its goal of eventually selling nicotine pouches in Canada, where they are not permitted at present ...
Swedish Match vs. US nicotine pouch company Dryft in a litany of lawsuits
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th October 2022 || News analysis |
Dryft, which contends it was forced to sell out of the US nicotine pouch market because of alleged frivolous lawsuits from major nicotine pouch producer Swedish Match, may have an edge in the upcoming court case on the...
France links tobacco prices to inflation and plans new tax on HnB consumables
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th October 2022 || News analysis |
Tobacco prices in France will soon be indexed to inflation as the government seeks to discourage smoking in a country where cigarettes kill more than 200 people a day and cost the state billions of euros every year...
Japan: heated tobacco regulation, October 2022
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th October 2022 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the regulatory framework in place in Japan for heated tobacco products, covering all policy areas ...
Japan: oral tobacco and nicotine pouch regulation, September 2022
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th September 2022 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the regulatory framework in place in Japan for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, covering all policy areas ...
Washington DC: heated tobacco regulation, September 2022
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th September 2022 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current and possible future regulatory framework for heated tobacco products in Washington DC, covering all policy areas from taxation and advertising to labelling and product restrictions ...
Washington DC: oral tobacco and nicotine pouch regulation, September 2022
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th September 2022 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current and possible future regulatory framework for oral tobacco products and nicotine pouches in Washington DC, covering all policy areas from taxation and advertising to labelling and product restrictions ...
European citizens’ petition for a tobacco-free generation by 2030 seeks signatures
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th September 2022 || News analysis |
Organisers of a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) need 1m signatures across seven EU member states by next summer for the European Commission to respond to their request for measures leading to Europe’s first tobacco-free generation ...
Puerto Rico: oral tobacco and nicotine pouch regulation, September 2022
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th September 2022 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
This report provides a summary of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Puerto Rico, covering all policy areas from taxation and advertising to labelling, notification and retail channels ... Start your FREE trial
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