Ukraine could be the next country to introduce an excise tax burden on vaping products, although as it stands excise tax will apply only to heated tobacco from January 2020 ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its first modified risk order for eight snus smokeless tobacco products to be sold with certain modified risk claims by Swedish Match USA ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th December 2019 || News analysis |
The conservative parties in Germany’s ruling coalition have come out in support of a comprehensive ban on outdoor advertising for tobacco products that would come into force between 2022 and 2024 ...
This report provides an overview of Kazakhstan's regulatory framework. Although the country has not yet implemented regulation for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco, controls are expected in the near future ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th November 2019 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched its “most advanced” heated tobacco product in South Korea – during a critical political period in which the government has taken a harsh stance towards HnB products ...
TobaccoIntelligence takes an overview of recent market developments for PMI’s IQOS heated tobacco system, revealing which countries have the biggest growth, who is likely to use the device and what the future might hold ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st November 2019 || News analysis |
Altria’s global net revenues rose 0.3% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2019 to $6.86bn, primarily due to higher net revenues in the smokeless products...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st October 2019 || News analysis |
Falling sales of Japan Tobacco’s heated tobacco device Ploom Tech have hit the company’s total revenue from reduced risk products, which fell by JPY7.1bn ($65.7m) to JPY17.8bn ($164.6m) in Q3...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th October 2019 || News analysis |
A number of MPs from Germany’s ruling coalition have emphasised their willingness to reach agreement quickly on a federal ban on outdoor advertising of tobacco...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 17th October 2019 || News analysis |
PMI has posted an 84.8% year-on-year increase in heated tobacco shipments in the third quarter of 2019 to nearly 16bn units, while its shipments of conventional cigarettes went down by 5.9% ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd October 2019 || News analysis |
The upper house of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Council of States, has approved a ban on the sale of all tobacco products to under-18s and on advertising them in magazines or online ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th September 2019 || News analysis |
Local authorities across South Korea are carrying out patrols to enforce regulations against smoking, vaping and use of heat-not-burn (HnB) products in a wide range of public...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th September 2019 || News analysis |
A wave of workforce cuts by major companies such as British American Tobacco (BAT) and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) may be just the tip of the iceberg for Big Tobacco ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th September 2019 || News analysis |
A new anti-smoking campaign by the Spanish government takes on smoking, vaping, heated tobacco and hookahs under the motto “El tabaco ata y te mata” (“Tobacco ties and kills you”) ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th September 2019 || News analysis |
Barely a month after Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte signed a law setting taxes on heated tobacco and vaping products, the House of Representatives has opted to change the entire tax...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 5th September 2019 || News analysis |
The Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency, ANVISA, is to launch a public consultation as a step towards deciding whether to amend the national ban e-cigs and heated...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd September 2019 || News analysis |
Tax revenues from e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn (HnB) products raised €172.6m in Italy in 2018, a big increase over previous years. Meanwhile, there are fresh doubts over the political future ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 12th August 2019 || News analysis |
The new centre-right Greek government has committed to enforcing existing anti-smoking regulations, and including e-cigarettes as part of its new national health...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th August 2019 || News analysis |
The Russian Federal Anti-monopoly Service has rejected a complaint by the International Confederation of Consumer Societies that IQOS display stands in stores violated federal advertising rules ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st August 2019 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco’s (BAT) net revenue rose 4.6% in the first half of 2019, driven by growing demand for next-generation products such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th June 2019 || News analysis |
The South Korean government is running a campaign to discourage use of tobacco products, in response to recent launches of Juul and a similar device from...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th June 2019 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) is expecting its next-generation portfolio, including vaping and heated tobacco products, to grow between 30-50% in 2019 ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th May 2019 || News analysis |
Japan continues to be the leading test market for heated tobacco products, with two new devices recently launched – including the world’s first device which works with ordinary cigarettes ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd May 2019 || News analysis |
There have been mixed reactions from within the industry to the FDA decision to allow PMI’s heated-tobacco device IQOS and its associated consumables onto the US market ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th April 2019 || News analysis |
The US FDA has given its approval for Philip Morris International (PMI)’s IQOS in the US, along with its associated consumables ― the first heated-tobacco products to be so approved ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th April 2019 || News analysis |
PMI is getting into the life insurance business by creating a subsidiary which offers discounts for switching from smoking to heated tobacco or e-cigarettes ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th March 2019 || News analysis |
PMI and Ferrari have been forced to cancel their partnership for this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, the opening race of the Formula 1 season. The Mission Winnow branding will, however, reappear for the rest of the...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th March 2019 || News analysis |
Japan’s health authorities have issued new ordinances related to smoking areas, including the first designated signs to apply to dedicated areas for the use of heated tobacco...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st March 2019 || News analysis |
British American Tobacco’s (BAT) 2018 financial results were driven by its reduced risk portfolio, which includes products such as Vuse and Vype and Glo ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th February 2019 || News analysis |
The now-controversial link between Big Tobacco and Formula 1 racing is being renewed, with tie-ups between two leading teams and two tobacco giants facing legal scrutiny ...
China Tobacco is battling a flourishing smuggling trade in heated tobacco products, while also proposing regulation of e-cigarettes that could threaten the livelihoods of a large number of small operators ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st February 2019 || News analysis |
The 2018 results from the Altria Group revealed a slump in sales of combustibles. The company is now turning its attention to alternative sectors such as cannabis and Juul, and preparing for the US launch of IQOS ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st January 2019 || News analysis |
Japan Tobacco (JT) is launching two new heat-not-burn (HnB) devices in the Japanese market as it tries to catch up with IQOS and Glo in its home territory ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th December 2018 || News analysis |
A new bill proposed in Colombia’s Senate is paving the way for the country to begin regulating heated tobacco and vaping products on a par with combustible tobacco – though the plan is tied up in the country’s...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th December 2018 || News analysis |
The minister charged with drawing up proposed regulation of e-cigarettes in New Zealand has done so, based on the stated belief that vaping and smokeless tobacco are “highly likely to be much less harmful than...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd December 2018 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) is suing British American Tobacco (BAT) in Japan for infringement of the patent for IQOS, claiming the rival company has copied the technology for its own Glo device ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 26th November 2018 || News analysis |
The Dutch government is proposing to insist on plain packaging for e-cigarette products from 2022. That is one of the startling measures proposed in the long-awaited National Prevention Agreement ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd November 2018 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI) is to open an IQOS flagship store in Johannesburg, South Africa next year – with a welcome from the local e-cig industry ...
A pronouncement earlier this year by the Indian government that individual states should ban vapour products appears to have encouraged action in several – but the Delhi High Court has confirmed that the advisory is not binding for...
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