COP10 was to be the conference where countries finally got to grips with emerging alternative tobacco products, but none of the decisions made applied to HTPs or ENDS or their industries
Leaders of vaping associations in Latin America have told TobaccoIntelligence they anticipate further restrictions and reinforced regional bans on tobacco alternative products to result from this week’s COP10
Industry associations in Argentina, Mexico, Panama and other Latin American nations are hopeful that 2024 will bring eased restrictions that have complicated sales and consumption of tobacco alternatives
The recent election of president Javier Milei in Argentina is considered encouraging for the South American country’s e-cigarette and heated tobacco market, industry leaders told TobaccoIntelligence
Venezuela is the latest Latin American country to issue a government decree banning nationwide sales, consumption, exports and distribution of heated tobacco and vapes
Tobacco growers in Argentina are continuing efforts – so far unsuccessful – to overturn a resolution banning the production of heated tobacco products in the country
Argentina’s ban on heated tobacco, which caught many people by surprise at the end of last month, is now subject to challenge on several fronts, including from within the government’s own party