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22nd Century Group is to announce its full year results on 1st March, after confirming the launch of its two low-nicotine cigarettes as modified risk tobacco products
Philip Morris International (PMI) posted positive numbers for 2021, helped by higher unit volumes in heated tobacco and outstanding initial results from its fourth-generation heated tobacco device Iqos Iluma
Approval of applications to sell new nicotine products in Norway appears to be a difficult proposition, according to Swedish Match, which had its application for an oral nicotine pouch rejected
Recent changes to Norwegian regulations are unlikely to have a significant impact on the country’s tobacco alternatives market
The European Parliament’s first debate on the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA)’s report into how to strengthen Europe’s fight against cancer will take place on 15th February
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
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
Acceptance by the US FDA of very-low-nicotine cigarettes as a modified risk product may be controversial, even bizarre, but it will be worth seeing how they perform in the market – and how that may affect future regulation of alternatives
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?
Consumers will continue to increasingly spread usage out over different alternative nicotine products partiy driven by further, stricter vaping regulation across the globe throughout 2022, TobaccoIntelligence predicts
Tobacco giant Altria’s net revenues slightly declined in 2021, partially offset by growth in the company’s oral tobacco products segment
Current tobacco laws in Romania do not regulate heated tobacco or nicotine pouches. The new government may introduce legislation, or may wait to implement the forthcoming revised EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD)
Philip Morris’s bid to resume importing and selling its Iqos heat-not-burn (HnB) device in the US has failed
This report provides an overview of the current regulations in Germany for heated tobacco, snus and tobacco-free nicotine pouches, as well as analysis of potential upcoming regulation in certain areas including taxation
This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Indonesia, along with our analysis and predictions for future regulation
TobaccoIntelligence showed excellent understanding of the industry and a capacity for accurate analysis with its 2021 predictions, most of which hit during the year
Draft amendments to the Taiwan Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act are awaiting approval by the parliament. They will include the legalisation of heated tobacco products, with controls on sales
This report examines the activity around two heated tobacco brands – Iqos and Glo – on the most important social networks in Italy, as well as opinions expressed online by Italian users about the brands
Some vapers appear to be switching to heated tobacco products, but should vaping and heated tobacco be viewed as complementary alternatives or competitors
Heated tobacco is largely regulated as tobacco in the Netherlands most while most oral tobacco products are banned. This report provides a detailed overview of current and near-future regulation in the country
Although the usage rate is relatively low (0.4%), the German modern oral population is the third by size within the EU despite serious regulatory challenges. This snapshot provides an overview of the German market
With a long tradition of oral tobacco products – especially snus – dating from the 17th century, Sweden is a primary market for pouched oral products. This snapshot covers Sweden’s modern oral market
Finland has a long tradition of using modern oral products, however snus and nicotine pouches are regulated differently. This snapshot offers an overview of Finland’s market for modern oral products
Denmark has the third highest usage rate for modern oral products in the EU, and we expect this rate to almost double by 2025. The snapshot offers an overview of Denmark’s modern oral market
Tobacco-free pouches in Hungary are regulated as tobacco-related products and snus is banned under the EU-level regulation. This snapshot provides an overview of Hungary’s market for modern oral products
In Denmark a new tax on nicotine pouches will enter into force in July 2022. Further increases in heated tobacco taxation are expected for 2023. A flavour ban may come into force in 2022
The heated tobacco sector has, compared with its cousin vapour, always suffered from a lack of scientific research and from the perception that most of what does exist is industry-funded
Alternative tobacco products, including heated tobacco and nicotine pouches, have taken worldwide sales from combustibles over the past three years, with the cigarette segment declining by 5%
2021 may have been a downer in many other areas but the year saw phenomenal growth across tobacco alternatives, including in the oral segment, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches
This report on the current and near-future regulatory framework for tobacco-related products in Belgium covers heated tobacco (HnB), tobacco-free nicotine pouches and oral tobacco products
Switzerland faces two referendum votes crucial to the future of tobacco product advertising in the country
Swiss voters will face two crucial referendums over the next few weeks on the future of tobacco product advertising in the country. The country, which ranks near the bottom of the Tobacco Control Scale in Europe rating for advertising bans, faces two competing proposals
This report presents the findings of TobaccoIntelligence’s 2021 consumer survey undertaken to study the consumption and behavioural patterns of heated tobacco users in Italy
This report provides analysis of the modern oral market size and its characteristics within the EU, along with an online traffic analysis
The US FDA’s marketing authorisation of two low-nicotine cigarettes as modified risk tobacco products – including a menthol cigarette – has not gone down well with public health associations or all harm reduction experts
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
The prospect of very-low-nicotine cigarettes becoming the next alternative product on the US market has come a significant step closer, with the FDA issuing modified risk orders for two products from 22nd Century Group
New Zealand has designated a cohort of young people – those who will be 14 or younger when the government’s proposed law comes into effect – who will never be old enough to smoke
Italian senators from different political parties have tabled a number of amendments to the Budget Bill 2022 aiming to modify the excise tax rates on heated tobacco products
It’s the end of an era as tobacco sponsorship of Formula One racing comes to an end – again. Or does it and is it?
This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework in place in Panama for heated tobacco, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches
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
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
There is no comprehensive legal framework on tobacco products in Venezuela, but several resolutions regulate different aspects of the commercialisation of tobacco products
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
This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in the European Union
This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in Poland
This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in Germany
This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in the Czech Republic
This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in Sweden
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