The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to Amarillo Snuff over its smokeless nicotine product that uses corn husks instead of tobacco leaves ...
The US government is opposing a bill that would prevent the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from enforcing a ban on menthol cigarettes it proposed last year ...
22nd Century will focus on streamlining operating costs and making the marketing and sales push for its VLN cigarette products more cost efficient to address issues that have forced it to revise full-year profit guidance...
Venezuela is the latest Latin American country to issue a government decree banning nationwide sales, consumption, exports and distribution of heated tobacco and vapes ...
Health Canada has approved the first nicotine pouch authorised for sale in Canada as an over-the-counter cessation aid – a move some say could open the door to other nicotine pouches hitting the market ...
Altria reported a solid performance in the first half of 2023 despite lower net revenues, partially offset by higher revenue in the oral tobacco segment ...
Seven out of ten people worldwide – five times as many as in 2007 – are protected against tobacco-related health issues by sound regulatory policies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Sales of HeatSticks could ironically end up benefitting from a US legal battle lost by their manufacturer Philip Morris and other leading tobacco companies ...
Lawyers for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company call the US Food and Drug Administration’s defence of its graphic cigarette warnings “half-hearted” in a new legal brief ...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has reported a continued positive performance of its vapour and modern oral segment but said it needs to do more work on its heated tobacco products ...
Philip Morris International (PMI) reported strong momentum over the first half of the year, driven by Iqos growth and the good performance of Swedish Match, accelerating the company’s transition to a smokeless future ...
22nd Century Group has confirmed the launch of its VLN reduced nicotine cigarettes in California, where sales have begun in hundreds of convenience stores across the state ...
The US Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products has published milestones to expect as it continues to address issues brought up by the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s recent report ...
UK-based tobacco group Imperial Brands has acquired a range of nicotine pouch products from Canadian manufacturer TJP Labs for £65m, and said the move would facilitate its entry into the US modern oral nicotine market...
Canada is about to become the first country in the world to require health warnings on individual cigarettes, little cigars and other tobacco products ...
The Reagan-Udall Foundation’s reports on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provide “substantially different future policy implications” for the different FDA programmes investigated ...
US company 22nd Century will look to expand its international interests by launching trials in Switzerland and Japan as well as relaunching its low-nicotine conventional cigarette product in South Korea ...
US tobacco giant Altria is to pay $235m to settle at least 6,000 state and federal cases related to Juul, ending most of the suits it is still facing in relation to the e-cigarette company...
Tobacco companies are not doing enough to transition to reduced risk products and are not phasing out conventional cigarettes quickly enough, according to the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) ...
US tobacco giant Altria closed the first quarter of 2023 with a slight fall in its net revenues compared with the same period last year, while it recorded an increase in its adjusted diluted earnings...
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 ...
A US House of Representatives committee has launched an investigation into the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) for alleged failure to effectively regulate tobacco products ...
Expanding sales of next generation products into new markets has more than compensated Imperial Brands for the enforced loss of its Myblu e-cigarette from the US market ...
22nd Century Group, maker of the very low nicotine VLN brand cigarette, has announced a new three-year exclusive licence and distribution agreement with the US cannabis company Cookies ...
Altria will launch two new smoke-free products, a heated tobacco capsule called Swic and a new addition to its existing nicotine pouch brand, On! Plus, in a move to address a broader range of consumers...
As budget negotiations leave out the proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, tensions rise among lawmakers, public health advocates, and business organisations. Will the ban find its way back into legislation, or is this the end...
Fears have been raised that new product standards proposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be costly to implement and overly burdensome for smaller companies ...
US-based 22nd Century believes it is set up for a bright future with further expansion of its VLN cigarette range into three new states and plans to be in 18 total by year’s end ...
Altria has swapped its 35% stake in Juul Labs for heated tobacco intellectual property rights, ending an investment which plummeted in value from $12.8bn to only $250m in just over four years ...
The significance Big Tobacco companies are placing on novel tobacco products is demonstrated by the continued international expansion many are undertaking ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 28th February 2023
Altria is reported to be in advanced talks to buy e-cigarette company Njoy for around $2.75bn.No deal has been finalised, but an official announcement is possible by the end of the week ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its plans to address the recommendations put forward in a damning independent review of its Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 22nd February 2023
The appointment of Matthew Farrelly as director of the Office of Science at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) comes at a potentially critical time for tobacco alternatives ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 21st February 2023
Members of Mexico’s tobacco, restaurant and retail industries say an executive order laying down new regulations for the tobacco industry is unconstitutional and will be brought down in court ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 14th February 2023
A growing share of the Japanese heated tobacco market and the launch of the Ploom X heat-not-burn (HnB) device in the UK contributed to Japan Tobacco International (JTI) posting positive figures for 2022 ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 10th February 2023
Philip Morris International (PMI) reports an overall positive performance in 2022, boosted by growth in its Iqos business, with revenues and shipment volumes slightly up for the year ...
Philip Morris International (PMI) has announced its long-term exclusive rights to sell KT&G’s smoke-free products in more than 30 markets, excluding South Korea ...
US-based tobacco giant Altria’s net revenues in the oral tobacco segment fell slightly in 2022 despite its nicotine pouch brand On! reporting a positive performance ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised the marketing of three new tobacco-flavoured heated tobacco products from Philip Morris Products’s supplemental PMTAs ...
US company 22nd Century Group has expanded the number of outlets for its low-nicotine cigarette VLN through partnerships with two convenience store distributors in the US ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) from Canadian manufacturer TJP Labs for its L!X nicotine pouches ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 30th December 2022
The year gone by saw phenomenal growth across the global market for tobacco alternatives, including in the oral segment, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches ...
The US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (FDA CTP) is “reactive and overwhelmed”, staff are “fatigued”, the industry and public health advocates are “frustrated”, and litigation has “upended” the CTP’s plans ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 19th December 2022
British American Tobacco (BAT) said its “new category” business continues to drive substantial volume, revenue, and market share growth – significantly contributing to the company’s overall performance ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 1st December 2022
An anti-smoking group is taking the Canadian government to court in a bid to force it to complete its review of the federal law governing tobacco and vaping products ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 30th November 2022
Philip Morris International (PMI) now owns 93.11% of shares in Swedish Match, meaning it can now begin the process of taking the company off the stock market and making it a wholly-owned PMI subsidiary ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 24th November 2022
In one of many skirmishes over proposed flavour bans popping up around the US, Californians have voted to approve Proposition 31, upholding a 2020 law that would prohibit the sale of certain flavoured tobacco products...