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Philip Morris International will focus on heated tobacco and nicotine pouches as the alternatives that can help it meet its goal of becoming a majority smoke-free revenue company by 2025
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
The Colombian government appears to have given up on plans to raise levies on heated tobacco and e-cigarette products, to the dismay of some of its own supporters
New taxes in Colombia on heated tobacco, vapour products and combustible cigarettes are expected to bring in as much as COP1tn ($227.3m) annually, making their approval the top agenda item for president Gustavo Petro, according to legislators promoting the hiked levies
Heated tobacco products and all other electronic smoking alternatives, such as e-cigarettes, will almost certainly remain banned in Brazil following a unanimous vote by the board of Anvisa, the country’s health agency
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While Brazil’s health authorities keep postponing a final decision on future regulation of tobacco alternatives, a new proposal to reinforce a nationwide ban on heated tobacco is being considered in the Chamber of Deputies
Colombia’s Parliament is considering a bill that would impose fresh regulations on the sale and use of tobacco-alternative products, including heated tobacco
The Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency, ANVISA, is to launch a public consultation as a step towards deciding whether to amend the national ban e-cigs and heated tobacco
A new bill proposed in Colombia’s Senate is paving the way for the country to begin regulating heated tobacco and vaping products on a par with combustible tobacco – though the plan is tied up in the country’s complex political arithmetic
Colombia’s health and finance ministries have moved to force heated tobacco products such as IQOS to comply with the country’s tobacco law, arguing there is no evidence to suggest that they present any lower risk than cigarettes
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