Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th June 2022 || News analysis |
New regulations that came into force at the end of April will make it hard for Hong Kong to achieve its 2025 smoking reduction targets, one concerned harm reduction association claims ...
This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current framework in place for tobacco products in Taiwan, as well as the potential future framework for heated tobacco products should the bill amending the Tobacco Harm Control Act be...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th June 2022 || News analysis |
The Czech Republic is set to become the main EU proponent of tobacco harm-reduction policy following a change in philosophy among leaders, and is planning to implement a new decree for nicotine pouches in the near future as...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th May 2022 || Blog |
The World Health Organization (WHO)'s rejection of a new Covid-19 vaccine on anti-tobacco grounds will almost certainly end up having a negative impact on public health – particularly in the developing world ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd May 2022 || News analysis |
Heat-not-burn (HnB) hardware could be in for a big shake-up in the EU over the next few years, with the environmental impact of batteries squarely in the firing line ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th May 2022 || News analysis |
On 13th April 2022 the Belgian Competition Authority’s decision-making body, the Competition College, imposed fines totalling €36m on four major cigarette manufacturers for practices that restricted competition ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th May 2022 || News analysis |
A group of tobacco companies, including British American Tobacco (BAT) and its subsidiaries Nicoventures and House of Prince, have sued the Danish government over legislation which came into force in 2021 ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd April 2022 || News analysis |
A reply from Los Angeles County lawyers is expected soon, after RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company and two other tobacco companies asked a federal appellate court to review its earlier affirmation of the county’s ban on flavoured tobacco sales...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st March 2022 || News analysis |
While synthetic nicotine has become the focus of much controversy, demonised as a public health risk, its currently poor reputation derives more from bureaucracy than from the substance itself ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd March 2022 || News analysis |
There has been a significant increase in the use of smoke-free tobacco products among young people in Denmark over the past ten years, according to a new report by the Danish Health Authority ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 15th March 2022 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing Philip Morris International (PMI) to market its Iqos 3 heated tobacco device with some reduced risk claims ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th March 2022 || News analysis |
Heat-not-burn (HnB) products took more than a third of the total tobacco market in Japan for the first time, in the last quarter of 2021, as the shift from traditional cigarettes continued ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 17th February 2022 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that a plan to ban menthol in combustible smoking products by the end of spring 2022 "remains on track" ...
Heated tobacco is included in Egypt's existing tobacco laws. Oral tobacco may be covered too, but nicotine pouches are unregulated. Forthcoming licences will allow production of heated tobacco ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd February 2022 || News analysis |
The Philippine College of Physicians is lobbying against a bill to regulate vaping and novel tobacco products. They object to a lower age limit and the removal of flavour restrictions ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st February 2022 || News analysis |
Could a new regulation allowing companies to apply for permission to sell new tobacco and nicotine products open the Norwegian market to heated tobacco and oral nicotine pouches? ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th December 2021 || News analysis |
A new blanket ban in Taiwan’s capital on the sale and import of tobacco-alternative products is heavy-handed and nonsensical, an expert in the city’s medical university says ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 15th December 2021 || News analysis |
Japan’s heated tobacco sector is continuing to grow strongly and to take market share from traditional cigarettes, with the main players releasing new devices and revamping their heat-not-burn (HnB) divisions ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th December 2021 || News analysis |
The US Senate Finance Committee has made “targeted improvements” to president Joe Biden’s $2tn social spending package – including removing the proposal of a federal tax on tobacco alternatives ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th December 2021 || News analysis |
The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) gave the green light to a cancer report that urges the Commission to assess a ban on characterising flavours in heated tobacco ...
TobaccoIntelligence carried out a second survey of MEPs, following a similar survey in 2020, to find out how their views on new nicotine products – e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches – have changed ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th November 2021 || News analysis |
The State Council of China has approved an addition to the Tobacco Monopoly Law, clarifying what has been a grey area surrounding the regulation and categorisation of tobacco-alternative products ...
The use of traditional tobacco products has been in decline across the EU in recent decades. We conducted a recent study to gauge the economic impact of novel nicotine products in Europe ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 26th November 2021 || News analysis |
A proposal in Poland to increase excise duties applying to innovative tobacco products, including heated tobacco, was passed by the parliament (Sejm) and is now waiting for the decision of the Senate ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 12th October 2021 || News analysis |
The use of tobacco products – including heat-not-burn (HnB) devices – in public places becomes illegal in Kyrgyzstan tomorrow, 13th October, after the country’s president signed a new law ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st October 2021 || News analysis |
PMI and its distributor Altria Group must stop importing Iqos consumables in the US, according to a ruling issued by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th August 2021 || News analysis |
The German state of Hesse is targeting heated tobacco along with e-cigarettes in a new legislative initiative to update the current regulations covering smoking ...
In this report, we take a look at some of the most recent developments in the regulation of modern oral, both at EU level and in individual countries ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th August 2021 || News analysis |
The most populous city in Taiwan has recently joined eight regions in implementing new legislation restricting the use and sale of e-cigs and heated tobacco ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 11th August 2021 || News analysis |
After the recent announcement that the FDA rejected 4.5m from the total 6m PMTAs filed, experts believe that this decision means a clear path for enforcement ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 9th August 2021 || News analysis |
The Russian Health Ministry recently finalised a draft agreement on restricting tobacco-free white pouches across the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) territory ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th August 2021 || News analysis |
Researchers at the University of San Diego in California have published a paper showing early evidence that CBD may help ease the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 26th July 2021 || News analysis |
Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has issued a decree lifting the import and export ban on heated tobacco devices and consumables, less than 18 months after the prohibition was approved ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 9th July 2021 || News analysis |
The Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) is considering a new bill amending the country’s Tobacco Act with the aim of clarifying the regulations for snus and heated tobacco and bringing down the country's smoking rates ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 5th July 2021 || News analysis |
Some Dutch lawmakers have expressed concern about the consequences of an amendment to the Tobacco and Smoking Products Act and the introduction of new advertising restrictions on tobacco-alternative products ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 5th July 2021 || News analysis |
Los Angeles is in the early stages of preparing to ban flavoured tobacco products, the local government having authorised the drafting of a measure to end the sale of such products in the city’s 4,500 tobacco retailers ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th June 2021 || News analysis |
A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends governments and health officials around the world to pay attention to attempts by the tobacco industry to avoid product regulations ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th June 2021 || News analysis |
A growing number of leisure facilities in Japan are going smoke-free by allowing only heated tobacco products to be used, or establishing dedicated areas for them, in response to stricter rules on indoor smoking ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd June 2021 || News analysis |
Pakistan has included a proposal to tax heated tobacco products in its annual national budget for the first time. It comes after several calls to take a harsher approach towards tobacco products generally ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th June 2021 || News analysis |
Health officials in Rome are considering regulation of nicotine pouches in the country after they seized and banned the sale of a brand of such products following a Higher Health Institute (ISS) laboratory analysis ...
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