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British American Tobacco (BAT) saw revenue from its new products category portfolio rise by 45% in the first half of the year, with good returns from its modern oral and heated tobacco portfolio
This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory regime in place in Egypt for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches covering all policy areas
This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory regime in place in Egypt for heated tobacco, covering all policy areas
The tobacco industry has little faith that the upcoming external review of the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) will help fix faults in the US FDA department’s regulation of new tobacco and alternative products
A new way to add flavours to conventional cigarettes has gained publicity after being criticised by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
It is a publisher’s responsibility to ensure tobacco ads do not appear on a newspaper website through automated or algorithmic banner ad purchases, according to a ruling by the Danish Consumer Ombudsman
Swedish Match has reported a 17% sales increase in the first half of the year, driven by smoke-free products, with solid growth for its Zyn nicotine pouches in both the US and Scandinavian markets
Philip Morris International (PMI) has raised its full year outlook after it saw decent numbers over the first half of 2022
This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory regime in place in Peru for heated tobacco, covering all policy areas
A rule banning tobacco products during the Covid lockdown in South Africa was strongly criticised by the country’s Supreme Court of Appeal, which deemed it to be unconstitutional
This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory regime in place in Peru for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, covering all policy areas
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Luxembourg, covering all policy areas from notification and packaging to taxation and retail channel restrictions
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco products in Luxembourg, covering all policy areas from notification and packaging to taxation and retail channel restrictions
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Robert Califf has authorised an external review of the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), citing a “series of challenges that have…stressed the agency’s operations”
This report offers a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework in place for nicotine pouches and oral tobacco in France, covering both current and possible future regulation across all policy areas
More than 24,000 responses were received to a European Commission call for evidence on plans for the legal framework that will shape the future revised Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and Tobacco Advertising Directive
This report offers a detailed overview of the regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco in France, covering both current and possible future restrictions across all policy areas, including taxation, notification, advertising and more
A ban on flavoured heated tobacco products in the EU may be delayed after the Permanent Representatives Committee recommended that the Council of the European Union extend the scrutiny period by two months
You can almost hear the judge’s sigh as he wrote his latest opinion in the long-running litigation between the FDA and the cigar industry over the latter’s treatment by the 2016 final deeming rule. Here we go again…
Trust a politician to come up with a memorable soundbite, a catchy slogan or a simple statement that leaps out at you from the headlines. Top prize this week to Malaysia’s health minister Khairy Jamaluddin
Heated tobacco products and all other electronic smoking alternatives, such as e-cigarettes, will almost certainly remain banned in Brazil following a unanimous vote by the board of Anvisa, the country’s health agency
Public health in the north of England continues to be ignored in favour of supporting more affluent and Tory-leaning areas in the south and Midlands, according to a new survey
This report asks and answers questions regarding US federal regulation on nicotine pouches, reviewing current law, looking at what stands to change, and clearing up what could happen if state and federal legislation clash
Pouches with integrated “shields” on one side that reduce stinging and gum irritation are the latest example of how the category is leading the way in innovation among alternative nicotine products
Could the Khan report, which endorses the UK’s positive attitude towards e-cigs also have lessons for the rest of the world, even for countries where there is far more hostility toward novel tobacco products?
This report examines the activity around the two main heated tobacco brands – Iqos and Glo – on the most important social networks in Poland, as well as opinions expressed online by Polish users about the brands
Tax rates on heated tobacco products in Bulgaria will not change following the resignation of prime minister Kiril Petkov and his cabinet after they lost a vote of confidence
The author of a new study linking snus with smoking cessation has called on the World Health Organization “to move from rejecting tobacco harm reduction to promoting it”
A flavour ban for heated tobacco products has been confirmed following the EU Commission’s publishing of a delegated directive amending the Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU, commonly known as the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD)
This report offers a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework in place for nicotine pouches and oral tobacco in South Africa, covering both current and possible future regulation across all policy areas
Flavours in nicotine pouches could become the next contentious issue for tobacco alternatives, following a similar route to e-liquid flavours, experts say
Details remain sketchy as to how and when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s plan to impose nicotine restrictions on cigarettes is to be implemented
Innovation in nicotine pouches – better release profile, longer lasting flavour and effect – is coming from an unexpected area… the remarkable world of concrete
Nicotine pouches in Iceland are to be subject to their own specific rules for the first time – but they do not include a threatened flavour ban
Some headlines notwithstanding, it doesn’t sound like Joe Biden actually sat in the Oval Office and signed off mandatory nicotine reduction while photographers recorded the historic moment
Limits similar to those already found on tobacco products such as cigarettes and snus will now also apply to tobacco-free nicotine products after Sweden’s parliament, the Riksdag, voted to modify legislation
Recognition of the role vaping can play in the future of public health in England has been welcomed – but there is some disappointment that the positive approach does not extend to other alternatives to smoking
Rumours circulating this week that the Biden administration is about to put its weight behind mandatory nicotine reduction in combustibles will have been music to the ears of 22nd Century Group, if few others
Health Canada has put forward a plan for new packaging restrictions for tobacco products, including rotating health-related messages, as well as bigger health warnings on heated tobacco
This report offers a detailed overview of the regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco in South Africa, covering both current and possible future restrictions across all policy areas, including taxation, notification, advertising and more
This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework for nicotine pouches and oral tobacco in North Macedonia, covering all policy areas from taxation and notification to advertising and packaging requirements
This report offers a detailed overview of the regulatory framework for heated tobacco products in North Macedonia, covering all areas from taxation and notification to advertising, labelling and retail channel restrictions
This report provides a summary of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Taiwan, covering all policy areas from taxation and advertising to labelling, notification and retail channels
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 adopted
Dutch authorities want to bring in a range of regulations intended to limit the popularity of novel tobacco products such as nicotine pouches
This report offers a detailed summary of the current regulatory framework for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in the Czech Republic
Of course it was only to be expected that the World Health Organization (WHO) would include novel nicotine products in its annual condemnations for World No Tobacco Day, but the approach it took this year was significant: a focus on the environment
22nd Century Group has confirmed the first international shipments of very low nicotine (VLN) cigarettes to South Korea and is expecting to see significant benefits from the sales of its menthol line of VLN cigarettes as it plans an expansion of sales and distribution in the US beyond its initial trial in Chicago, Illinois
The UK government must take further action to promote vaping products and accelerate the path to prescribed e-cigarettes if it wants to achieve its 2030 smoke-free ambition for England, according to an independent tobacco review
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