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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Podcast: Nicotine pouches and future developments of these new emerging products

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colombia hopes for millions in taxes on heated tobacco and combustibles

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th September 2022 || News analysis |

New taxes in Colombia on heated tobacco, vapour products and combustible cigarettes are expected to bring in as much as COP1tn ($227.3m) annually, making their approval the top agenda item for president Gustavo Petro, according to legislators promoting...

While other countries have gone with a flavour ban, menthol is still big in Japan

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th August 2022 || News analysis |

Japan currently has no intention of following the US and Europe with a ban on menthol-flavoured tobacco products ...

Early election could put paid to Malaysia’s ‘Generational End Game’ for nicotine

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th August 2022 || News analysis |

Malaysia’s latest attempt to put an end to nicotine use among the younger generation is likely to be delayed, or even derailed, with an early election expected to stall the new bill ...

Czech Republic could be facing nicotine cap and other restrictions on pouches

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th August 2022 || News analysis |

The Czech Republic Ministry of Health is preparing to introduce restrictions on the strength, marketing and production of nicotine pouches ...

Hawaii’s Democratic governor explains why he said no to anti-flavour legislation

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd August 2022 || News analysis |

The Democratic governor of Hawaii appeared to take a step out of line with the US party’s common position when he vetoed a bill that would have introduced a ban on flavoured tobacco products ...

Banned as a novel food? One day tobacco might be accepted as a super-food

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th August 2022 || Blog |

While nicotine pouches are classed in the EU as food products with an unauthorised ingredient, it could be argued that there is nothing novel about tobacco, or nicotine, in food – and it could have an important future...

Lack of solid science stokes fears and doubts over safety of nicotine pouches

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th August 2022 || News analysis |

While nicotine pouches are growing in popularity fast, the state of science on their safety remains threadbare ...

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