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Alternative tobacco and nicotine products in Alabama

Daily regulatory updates of the tobacco alternative sector. It includes weekly podcasts and monthly compilations

10th April 2024: US - Alabama: House Bill (HB) 438 has been introduced, which would provide a definition for heated tobacco products and establish a tax for them. Accordingly, from 1st October 2024 until 30th September 2027, for all heated tobacco products, the tax on a single-use consumable unit would be $0.17. From 1st October 2027 the tax would be $0.0085 per single-use consumable unit, and from 1st October 2029 the tax would be $0.005 per single-use consumable unit.
15th February 2024: US - Alabama: Senate bill (SB) 96 has been introduced, which would define heated tobacco products (HTPs) for state law purposes. Accordingly, an HTP would be “a product containing tobacco that produces an inhalable aerosol by heating the tobacco by means of a device without combustion of the tobacco or by heat generated from a combustion source that only or primarily heats rather than burns the tobacco. It does not include cigarettes or smoking tobacco”.