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- Hungary New excise taxes on heated and some oral tobacco products start today…
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- Egypt No importing of tobacco products also produced in the country…
- Italy Heated tobacco self-regulation code published and endorsed…
- Netherlands HnB devices come under tobacco regulation…
- Europe Heated tobacco flavour ban becomes approved EC policy…
- Vietnam National Assembly member criticises heated tobacco ban…
US bid to reduce nicotine in combustibles remains very light on dates and details
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Iceland awards nicotine pouches the rubber stamp of their own regulations
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 24th June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Sweden extends cigarette regulations to cover tobacco-free nicotine products
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
UK’s Khan report pleases vape advocates, all but ignores other tobacco alternatives
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 16th June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Health Canada proposes going bigger and bolder on tobacco health warnings
Written by Marija Obradovic || 14th June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Hong Kong ‘could miss its goal of cutting smoking’ due to new tobacco restrictions
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Netherlands wants to control and limit popularity of novel tobacco products
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
Dutch authorities want to bring in a range of regulations intended to limit the popularity of novel tobacco products such as nicotine pouches ...
Released Khan report advises strict measures in UK for 2030 smoke-free goal
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 9th June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Czechia embraces harm reduction and plans to regulate nicotine pouches
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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...
Health, environment damage: alternative tobacco products are not the solution
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd June 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
Next-generation tobacco products are not the solution to damage caused by the tobacco industry to both public health and the environment, according to speakers at a World Health Organization (WHO) conference ...
New CTP chief King expected to ‘hit the ground running’ on tobacco control
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 24th May 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has appointed epidemiologist Brian King as head of the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) – an appointment that has not gone down well among advocates of tobacco alternatives ...
Planned rewrite of EU battery rules could have a major impact on HnB devices
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 23rd May 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Call for UK to promote snus and nicotine pouches to reach smoke-free 2030 goal
Written by Lorraine Mullaney || 20th May 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
The UK government is likely to miss its 2030 smoke-free ambition for England because the government is not supporting the full range of reduced-risk products, namely snus and nicotine pouches, according to an advocate for snus and vaping ...
Tobacco companies face €36m fine for restricting competition in Belgium
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th May 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
EU ban on flavours in heated tobacco seen as likely to be adopted ‘soon’
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th May 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
The EU Commission told TobaccoIntelligence that progress on the process to institute the prohibition on flavours was underway and that the latest step is expected to be finalised “soon” ...
US FDA proposes banning menthol cigarettes and flavoured cigars
Written by Tiziana Cauli || 6th May 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
The FDA is looking to ban menthol-flavoured cigarettes and all characterising flavours other than tobacco in cigars – a move that would also likely eliminate the possibility of flavours in products such as heated tobacco ...
BAT leads legal challenge to Denmark’s latest tobacco control initiative
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th May 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Reynolds awaits reply on appeal of Los Angeles County flavour ban decision
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 22nd April 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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...
Synthetic nicotine – a manufactured scare story with nothing to be afraid of
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
UK government will ‘consider’ putting nicotine pouches under tobacco rules
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 29th March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published its post-implementation review of the country’s tobacco legislation ...
FDA authorises legal US sale of Logic’s heated tobacco product Vapeleaf
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 25th March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorised the marketing of Logic Technology Development’s heated tobacco product Vapeleaf ...
No 2 Mital looks the most likely choice to succeed outgoing CTP director Zeller
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 25th March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
Michele Mital, deputy director of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) since 2018, looks the most likely candidate to take over from retiring director Mitch Zeller ...
Denmark prepares to lead Europe with its first planned tobacco-free generation
Written by Marija Obradovic || 16th March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
Denmark could become the first country in Europe to impose a generational limit on access to tobacco and nicotine products, with a plan to ban access to tobacco and nicotine products to anyone born in or after 2010...
PMI allowed to make modified risk claims in US for Iqos 3 but import ban stands
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 15th March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Finland moves forward with efforts to limit tobacco and nicotine use by 2030
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has appointed a working group tasked with submitting proposals for new legislation and other measures ...
Iceland’s bill to regulate nicotine pouches as e-cigs due in parliament in March
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 2nd March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
Iceland’s delayed bill to regulate nicotine pouches under similar rules to those proposed for e-cigarettes and refills will be introduced to parliament in March ...
What science should we be following on novel tobacco products – and how far?
Written by Barnaby Page || 2nd March 2022 || Blog , Regulatory briefing |
“Following the science” is one of the most misleading, clichés of the pandemic, and both advocates and enemies of novel tobacco products need to be cautious of claiming to do the same thing ...
UK will not modify tobacco regulations to legalise snus, health minister says
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 1st March 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
Snus is likely to remain banned in the UK after a health minister said it is not expected to be part of the UK’s upcoming tobacco control plan ...
Italy regulates nicotine pouch sales, with notification and tax requirements
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 28th February 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
Nicotine pouches will officially be allowed to enter the Italian market following approval of a bill by the country’s Senate ...
Europe adopts compromise position on reduced risk products to beat cancer
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 21st February 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
The European Parliament has adopted the BECA report – the first time a European institution has formally acknowledged reduced risk products could play a role in smoking cessation – with some caveats ...
US ban on menthol combustibles will go ahead ‘in the spring’ despite controversy
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 17th February 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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" ...
Swedish Match says Norwegian approval could be hard to get after pouch rejection
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 10th February 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
MEPs prepare for first full parliamentary debate on European ‘beating cancer’ plan
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 8th February 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Philippine doctors urge president to veto novel tobacco bill over addiction fears
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd February 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
How the success or failure of VLNCs could affect regulation of alternatives
Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd February 2022 || Blog , Regulatory briefing |
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...
Norway’s rule change could open the way to a new market for HnB and pouches
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st February 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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? ...
US International Trade Commission rejects PMI bid to resume Iqos imports
Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th January 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
Philip Morris’s bid to resume importing and selling its Iqos heat-not-burn (HnB) device in the US has failed ...
Taiwan close to legalising heated tobacco products, with controls
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 20th January 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
Why does Switzerland lag behind its neighbours on tobacco control issues?
Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th January 2022 || Blog , Regulatory briefing |
Switzerland faces two referendum votes crucial to the future of tobacco product advertising in the country ...
Switzerland to vote on two competing proposals over tobacco advertising rules
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 7th January 2022 || Regulatory briefing |
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...
Health experts accuse US FDA of taking ‘backward step’ over VLN cigarettes
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 29th December 2021 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
‘It doesn’t make sense’ – public health expert criticises Taipei’s HnB ban
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th December 2021 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
A boost for very-low-nicotine cigarettes as US FDA grants modified risk order
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd December 2021 || Regulatory briefing |
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’s cunning birthdate-based scheme to wipe out smoking for good
Written by Aidan Semmens || 22nd December 2021 || Blog , Regulatory briefing |
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 consider amendments to modify HnB excise duties from 2022
Written by Antonia di Lorenzo || 17th December 2021 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
US Senate committee ditches nicotine tax from Biden’s Build Back Better Bill
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th December 2021 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
MEPs approve cancer report supporting tighter flavour restrictions
Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th December 2021 || Regulatory briefing |
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 ...
MEPs call on European Commission to ban flavours in heated tobacco products
Written by David Palacios Rubio || 3rd December 2021 || Regulatory briefing |
The final report of the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) is expected to ask the Commission to implement a blanket ban on “all characteristic flavours” in heated tobacco and novel tobacco products ...