Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd December 2020 || News analysis |
The Swiss National Council is expected to debate the country’s draft Federal Tobacco Act in a few days but a final vote on the bill, which would ban tobacco sales to minors, is unlikely before summer 2021...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd November 2020 || News analysis |
Supermarkets in the Netherlands will no longer be allowed to sell tobacco, including heated tobacco products, from 2024, health minister Paul Blokhuis has announced ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th November 2020 || News analysis |
Nicotine and CBD are perceived as the bad guy and the good guy of health and wellness – but could putting the two together make commercial sense if it can help smokers break the habit? ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th November 2020 || News analysis |
The Spanish Ministry of Health has prepared an amendment to the Tobacco, Act including provisions on tobacco-alternative products, but implementation will depend on the COVID-19 pandemic situation ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 17th November 2020 || News analysis |
Imperial Brands has revealed that net revenue from its next-generation portfolio declined by 27% in the year to September and announced that it will take a “more prudent approach” from now on ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th November 2020 || News analysis |
The Hungarian government is proposing to increase taxes on tobacco-alternative products after Brussels called on the country to apply the minimum EU threshold for excise duty on cigarettes ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd November 2020 || News analysis |
Canada's top health authority has issued a warning against nicotine pouches, saying they may pose “various serious health risks” to users, and ordered the recall of an unauthorised product being sold in Toronto ...
It is prohibited to sell, use, possess for sale, import or distribute imitation tobacco products including heated tobacco products – both consumables and devices – and white pouches in Singapore ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th October 2020 || News analysis |
Just a few days ahead of the US elections there is a lot of uncertainty about the approach that next White House leader will have towards the tobacco-alternatives industry ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th October 2020 || News analysis |
Swedish Match’s sales of smoke-free products jumped 23% in the third quarter of 2020, with the good performance of nicotine pouches in both US and Scandinavia as the main driver ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 20th October 2020 || News analysis |
Our managing director, Tim Phillips, recently explained how the nicotine market has been affected by COVID-19 at the Nicotine Cannabis Strategies Europe, which took place online on 10th...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th October 2020 || News analysis |
Indonesia’s Ministry of Industry is working towards a new national standard for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, which it beleives will benefit the tobacco-alternatives industry ...
This report provides an overview of the current regulatory framework for heated tobacco and snus in Taiwan, covering both current restrictions and possible future regulations ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th October 2020 || News analysis |
The US state of California has delayed the start of a multi-million-dollar promotional campaign to discourage the public from using tobacco products, following an appeal by a previous contractor ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 9th October 2020 || News analysis |
The Finance Committee of the French National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) has rejected a proposal to cut the taxes on heated tobacco to make tobacco-alternative products more attractive to smokers ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th October 2020 || News analysis |
The Ukrainian government has proposed an amendment to the country’s tax code that would add heat-not-burn (HnB) products to the definition of traditional tobacco in a bid to build “fair tax rules” ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th September 2020 || News analysis |
Taxes collected on “e-liquids and other nicotine products” in Sweden in 2019 amounted to SEK79.5m (€7.55m) – a figure believed to come mainly from products newly introduced into the market ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th September 2020 || News analysis |
The UK government is to impose a cap from next year on the number of heated tobacco consumables that air passengers can import into the country – including from countries within the European Union ...
Heated tobacco, like any other tobacco-containing product, is considered part of the Tobacco Monopoly in China and regulated as a general tobacco product. This report provides an overview of the regulatory regime ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st September 2020 || News analysis |
After years of discussions within the governing coalition and campaigning by health bodies, Germany is to further restrict tobacco advertising after the Bundesrat approved the new rules without further debate ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th September 2020 || News analysis |
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has created a phone app to help consumers detect non-compliant tobacco products in a bid from Emirati authorities to counter tax evasion and commercial fraud as well as to protect public health ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th September 2020 || News analysis |
Demand for tobacco products in Italy has fallen steadily over the past four years, while heated tobacco products have hugely increased their share of both total tobacco sales and tax revenues ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th September 2020 || News analysis |
The Dutch government has announced that it is planning to amend the Tobacco Act to include heat-not-burn (HnB) product under the definition of “smokeless tobacco products and related products” ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th September 2020 || News analysis |
While the Philippines debates regulations to restrict tobacco alternatives, PMFTC, the Philippine affiliate of Philip Morris International (PMI), has opened its first four IQOS stores in the Manila area ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd September 2020 || News analysis |
The Nigerian government is currently studying a new policy for regulations aimed at achieving a transition from combustibles to tobacco alternative products by 2024. ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st August 2020 || News analysis |
A revised draft amendment to Taiwan’s Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act could include regulations for heated tobacco products, TobaccoIntelligence has learned ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th August 2020 || News analysis |
Health Canada appears to have changed its mind about nicotine pouches, declaring that they should be regulated as drugs even if no “explicit” claim is made for any health benefit ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st August 2020 || News analysis |
California is edging closing to banning flavoured tobacco products – and despite industry lobbying, state lawmakers will not make an exception for tobacco-alternative products that have modified-risk approval ...
Romania is among the European countries with the highest penetration of heated tobacco, making it a very important sales and distribution point for the two active brands in the market: IQOS and Glo ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th August 2020 || News analysis |
Lawmakers in the Latvian parliament (Saeima) want a ban on tobacco-alternative products and have submitted a draft law that would crack down on nicotine pouches and heated tobacco devices ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th August 2020 || News analysis |
Public health authorities in England have launched an investigation into a number of cigarette products for possible violation of the menthol ban that came into force in May ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 12th August 2020 || News analysis |
Sales of heated tobacco in South Korea declined in the first half of 2020, with the government attributing the lower sales to ongoing policy efforts to discourage use of tobacco-alternative products ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th August 2020 || News analysis |
The Belarus government has made a first firm step towards restricting the sale of tobacco-free nicotine-containing products, including tobacco-free snus (sometimes known as "white pouch"), to minors and in some retailing spaces ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd August 2020 || News analysis |
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the Philippines proposed new restrictions for vaping and heated tobacco products in the revised draft guidelines regulating their manufacture, importation, sale, packaging, advertising, and distribution ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th July 2020 || News analysis |
The Russian State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly, has passed a bill prohibiting the sales of tobacco-free nicotine products for oral use ...
This report explores Slovakia's heated tobacco market, which is one of the leading heated tobacco markets in Europe, and sixth in the world in terms of heated tobacco’s market share ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 20th July 2020 || News analysis |
Sweden is proposing amendments to increase the tax of snus and create a new tax on raw tobacco from 1st July 2021 to close a tax loophole on this kind of tobacco-alternative...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 15th July 2020 || News analysis |
The UK government will assess the possibility of allowing the sale of snus in the country once the Brexit transitional period ends and the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) no longer applies ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th July 2020 || News analysis |
The US FDA's granting of modified risk status to PMI's IQOS system suggests possible future competition in the tobacco alternatives market, experts have told TobaccoIntelligence ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 7th July 2020 || News analysis |
The Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency has imposed a fine of JPY552m ($5.1m) on Philip Morris Japan (PMJ) for misleading advertising of Iqos when discounts were extended beyond the allotted date ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd July 2020 || News analysis |
The Pretoria High Court has dismissed the application by the Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA) to reverse the government ban on the sale of tobacco, including vapour products, following the outbreak of COVID-19 ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd July 2020 || News analysis |
South Korea’s health minister Park Neung-hoo has announced a fresh plan to ban advertising and promotional activities for tobacco-alternative products ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st July 2020 || News analysis |
TobaccoIntelligence managing news editor David Palacios joins Jon Bruford to discuss the implications and impact of the looming Tobacco Products Directive version 3 on the industry. To obtain more data and analysis for the industry, please find our...
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