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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 |

Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...

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” ...

Methodologies and definitions for market reports and data products

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th July 2023 || Market reports |

This report provides detailed information about product definitions and the various methodologies behind our market reports and market data products. It will be regularly updated as we develop and create new 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 |

Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...

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 |

Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...

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 |

Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products ...

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 |

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” ...

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 ...

Weekly regulatory podcast: 22nd-26th May

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th May 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |

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US FDA given different prescriptions for health of tobacco and food programmes

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 ...

Weekly regulatory podcast: 15th-19th May

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd May 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 ...

The vanity of the bonfires – has UK plan to scrap EU rules gone up in smoke?

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 ...

Weekly regulatory podcast: 8th-12th May

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th May 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |

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Tobacco group calls public consultation on TPD revision a ‘tick-the-box exercise’

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) ...

UK court dismisses tit-for-tat claims in long-running PMI/BAT patents feud

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 ...

Weekly regulatory podcast: 1st-5th May

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 9th May 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |

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New restrictions to tobacco law as Norway gears up to implement TPD

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 ...

Weekly regulatory podcast: 24th-28th April

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd May 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |

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Minimum pricing ahead as Russia places new restrictions on heated tobacco sales

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 ...

Decision upheld against PMI accused of underhanded advertising in Lithuania

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 ...

South Africa playing catch-up with WHO FCTC as Tobacco Control Bill edges closer

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 ...

US House committee probes tobacco center’s ‘failure to regulate effectively’

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 ...

Weekly regulatory podcast: 17th-21st April

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th April 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |

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India’s $17bn smokeless tobacco industry may be hit with ban affecting oral tobacco

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 ...

HnB weathers the rise in Japanese taxes as other forms of tobacco product are hit

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 ...

Weekly regulatory podcast: 10th-14th April

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th April 2023 || Regulatory alerts podcasts |

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Belgian ban: nicotine and cannabinoid pouch sales to be illegal this year

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 ...

Big Tobacco appears to be in no hurry to pull out of Russia over Ukraine invasion

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 ...

Weekly regulatory podcast: 3rd-7th April

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 12th April 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 ...

Argentina’s summary ban on heated tobacco under assault from all sides

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 ...

Cigarettes for €0.10 a pack? Italian shops hit by vending-machine hack attack

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 ...

New from T******Intelligence – your friendly artificial guide to everything!

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) ...

Tensions rise as menthol ban left out of budget negotiations in New York

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?...

Single regulatory agency to oversee nicotine and tobacco industries in Russia

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 ...

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