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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dutch authorities want to bring in a range of regulations intended to limit the popularity of novel tobacco products such as nicotine pouches ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published its post-implementation review of the country’s tobacco legislation ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorised the marketing of Logic Technology Development’s heated tobacco product Vapeleaf ...
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 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...
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 ...
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has appointed a working group tasked with submitting proposals for new legislation and other measures ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Nicotine pouches will officially be allowed to enter the Italian market following approval of a bill by the country’s Senate ...
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 ...
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" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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? ...
Philip Morris’s bid to resume importing and selling its Iqos heat-not-burn (HnB) device in the US has failed ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sooner or later the EU will have a new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), and one of the big questions will be how it treats new product categories which barely existed at the time of TPD2 ...