Malaysia Consumer association calls for tobacco-related product display ban ...
Indonesia Tobacco farmers’ association urges repeal of HTP and pouch regulations ...
Jordan Changes to HTP taxes now in force ...
Iceland Bill to increase tax on HTPs introduced to parliament ...
New Zealand Bill to increase fines for under-age sales of HTPs passes first reading ...
New Zealand Government introduces smoke-free and regulated products bill ...
Taiwan No HTPs have as yet passed pre-sale health risk test ...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belarus - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Moldova - Russia - Tajikistan - Uzbekistan Harm-prevention action plan created for CIS member states ...
Netherlands Citizens’ initiative for generational sales ban finds political support ...
Slovakia Amendment to excise tax act adopted, pouch tax to apply from February ...
India Karnataka state government urged to make upcoming festival tobacco-free ...
India Health experts say tobacco use contributes to nearly 1m deaths annually ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 6th September 2021
Few countries hit the deadline for implementing the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUP) to reduce the environmental impact of certain plastics – including those in heated tobacco filters – TobaccoIntelligence has found ...
Online sales of snus in the first two months of 2021 increased by 246% in Norway against the same period of 2020, according to new figures released by fintech company Klarna ...
A report commissioned by the Swedish government recommends stricter regulation of tobacco-alternatives, including new age limits for the sale of tobacco-free snus and a blanket ban on advertising ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 15th February 2021
Swedish Match posted an operating profit of nearly SEK 7bn ($845m) in 2020, up 23% on the previous year, thanks largely to a good performance by its ZYN nicotine pouches and record US sales ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 28th January 2021
Imperial Brands has announced a substantial shift in strategy towards its next-generation products category, with a focus on investment in heated tobacco in Europe over the next five years ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 17th November 2020
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 | 27th October 2020
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 | 29th September 2020
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 ...
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...
Swedish Match’s sales of smoke-free products boomed in the first quarter of 2020, with the segment recording a 35% year-on-year increase to SEK2.508bn (€234m) ...
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) is looking into a possible infringement of the patent for a nicotine pouch product, following a claim led by Swedish Match North America ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 28th February 2020
British American Tobacco (BAT)'s "modern oral" portfolio has been one of the main drivers helping the company achieve good results in 2019 for its next-generation products category, which overall increased globally by 36.9% ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 22nd November 2018
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld the ban on the sale of snus which has applied since 1992 in the whole EU except Sweden, which was granted an exemption under the 2014 Tobacco Products Directive (TPD)...