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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 ...
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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 ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd June 2023 || Blog |
US cannabis users are three times more likely to be cigarette smokers than those who don’t use cannabis, but this statistic is an example of the “gateway drug fallacy” ...
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
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 ...
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 ...
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd May 2023 || News analysis |
The Reagan-Udall Foundation’s reports on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provide “substantially different future policy implications” for the different FDA programmes investigated ...
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Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th May 2023 || News analysis |
The UK government’s plan to review or revoke thousands of pieces of legislation that originated from EU law by the end of the year is itself now under review ...
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Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 15th May 2023 || News analysis |
The EU has launched a public consultation on how it can update its tobacco control framework by revising the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and the Tobacco Advertising Directive (TAD) ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 11th May 2023 || News analysis |
A dismissive ruling by the High Court in London is just the latest in a series of ongoing legal battles between PMI and BAT over the patents for their rival heated-tobacco systems Iqos and Glo ...
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Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 5th May 2023 || News analysis |
An increasing age limit to prevent future generations from accessing tobacco products and a ban on flavours are two of the most important elements of new regulations being considered in Norway ...
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd May 2023 || News analysis |
Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill tightening regulation of alternative tobacco products, intended particularly to curb under-age demand – even though sales to under-18s were already prohibited ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th April 2023 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International has failed to overturn a decision by Lithuanian authorities that advertising for Iqos devices constitutes tobacco advertising ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th April 2023 || News analysis |
South Africa’s upcoming Tobacco Control Bill can bring the country’s regulations into line with World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) guidelines ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 26th April 2023 || News analysis |
A US House of Representatives committee has launched an investigation into the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) for alleged failure to effectively regulate tobacco products ...
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st April 2023 || News analysis |
A ban on the manufacture, storage and sale of flavoured smokeless tobacco products such as gutka and pan masala in the national capital territory of India has been upheld by the Delhi High Court ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 20th April 2023 || News analysis |
Heated tobacco has benefitted from an increase in excise duties on some tobacco products in Japan even though they meant a price rise for heat-not-burn (HnB) products too ...
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th April 2023 || News analysis |
The sale of nicotine pouches in Belgium has been banned, effective later this year, on the grounds they pose a danger to public health, particularly due to their potential for addiction ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 12th April 2023 || News analysis |
Global tobacco majors are not hurrying to leave the Russian market and suffer the multi-billion dollar losses that might potentially be associated with such an exodus ...
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 11th April 2023 || News analysis |
Argentina’s ban on heated tobacco, which caught many people by surprise at the end of last month, is now subject to challenge on several fronts, including from within the government’s own party ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th April 2023 || News analysis |
Italian tobacco associations estimate up to €250,000 in losses after hundreds of tobacco vending machines were the subject of a cyber-attack thought to be the work of anarchists ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st April 2023 || News analysis |
In line with our commitment to bring you the highest-quality analysis of the tobacco alternatives sector, today – 1st April – TobaccoIntelligence launches its new AI product, the Chat Personal Virtual Curator (ChatPVC) ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th March 2023 || News analysis |
As budget negotiations leave out the proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, tensions rise among lawmakers, public health advocates, and business organisations. Will the ban find its way back into legislation, or is this the end of the road?...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 9th March 2023 || News analysis |
The Russian Ministry of Finance announced in February that it would submit a bill to the parliament this month to establish a single regulator for the alcohol, tobacco and nicotine industries ...
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 ...
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 ...
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” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd February 2023 || Podcasts |
They make up one of the newest and fastest-growing categories within the tobacco market – but what is driving the phenomenal growth in snus and nicotine pouches? And what is the difference between them? ...
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