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14th February 2024: Global: The tenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has recently concluded with a decision to protect the environment and people's health from the harmful effects of tobacco. Parties have been asked to consider the environmental impacts of tobacco products and to improve the implementation of related policies for environmental protection. This includes the problem of cigarette (and presumably heated tobacco) filters, which can release plastic and harmful chemicals. In addition, COP10 has made more robust guidelines for tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
16th January 2024: Global: The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report today on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000-2030. The report concludes that 2022 has shown a continued decrease in tobacco use rates globally. According to the latest estimates from the WHO, there are 1.25bn adult tobacco users. While the WHO South-East Asian region currently shows the highest population percentage using tobacco (26.5%), the report foresees that, by 2030, the WHO European region will have the highest rates globally (over 23%).
20th December 2023: Global: Several EU and international markets will see a rise in heated tobacco taxes on 1st January 2024, including Indonesia, Bulgaria, Russia and Estonia. Further information is available in our compliance calendar.
28th November 2023: World: The tenth Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), due to be held this month in Panama and postponed due to the country's “current security situation”, was rescheduled. It will be held from 5th to 10th February 2024.
9th November 2023: World: The tenth Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has been postponed to 2024. COP10 was due to be held this month in Panama, but will now be held there at an undetermined date in 2024, according to FCTC authorities. They attributed the delay to “the current security situation in Panama”.
13th October 2023: Global: International E-waste Day is celebrated tomorrow (14th October). The yearly awareness-raising day initiated by the WEEE Forum, an international association of organisations of electronics manufacturers and importers, aims to highlight the growing issue of e-waste and promote responsible e-waste management. Products with electrical or electronic components, including vaping or heated tobacco devices with batteries, should be part of the recycling stream.
26th September 2023: Global: The World Health Organization (WHO) has released two new publications – “Freedom from tobacco and nicotine: guide for schools” and “Nicotine- and tobacco-free school toolkit” – which entail step-by-step manuals for schools to create nicotine- and tobacco-free campuses. The publications highlight four methods to foster these nicotine- and tobacco-free campuses: banning nicotine and tobacco products on school campuses, prohibiting the sale of nicotine and tobacco products near schools, banning direct and indirect ads and their promotion near schools, and refusing sponsorship or engagement with the tobacco and nicotine industries. The WHO believes that "the tobacco industry relentlessly targets young people with tobacco and nicotine products resulting in e-cigarette use increasing and 9 out of 10 smokers starting before the age of 18".
29th August 2023: Global: A new standard operating procedure for measuring the nicotine, glycerol and propylene glycol content in the tobacco of heated tobacco products has been published by the World Health Organization (WHO). The purpose of it is to "support countries in strengthening tobacco product regulation and thus the implementation of Articles 9 and 10 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control" and "provide technical leadership in tobacco product testing".
11th August 2023: Global: Another report on heated tobacco products (HTPs) that will be discussed at the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in Panama in November 2023 (COP10) has been uploaded to the COP10 website. The report invites parties to consider regulating and taxing HTPs akin to conventional cigarettes and consider whether amendments are necessary to ensure that HTP devices cannot be used to circumvent or undermine existing tobacco control laws. Other policy recommendations include strictly enforcing laws relating to misleading or deceptive claims that imply that HTPs reduce health risks relative to conventional cigarettes, taxing HTP devices, restricting the use of flavours that appeal to minors, and extending packaging and labelling laws (including those requiring health warnings) that govern tobacco products to HTP devices.
1st August 2023: Global: A report on heated tobacco products (HTPs) has been produced for discussion at the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in Panama in November (COP10). The report – an updated version of the one considered at COP9 in 2021 – lays out several policy options, including regulating HTPs as tobacco products, taxing them at the same rate as conventional cigarettes, regulating their contents and emissions, and requiring large graphic health warnings and plain packaging.
1st August 2023: Global: The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday released its “report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2023: protect people from tobacco smoke”, which examines progress made by countries in tobacco control since 2008. The report also analyses the relationship between emerging tobacco and nicotine products and tobacco control measures, concluding that “with new and emerging threats such as those posed by electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and the ongoing presence of an ever-shifting industry, we still have so much work to do”. The report claims that “since their emergence, heated tobacco products (HTPs) have been marketed by the tobacco industry with health and cessation claims that are not supported by independent, robust evidence”.

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