21st December 2022 - Maine, North America, United States |
US - Maine: Yesterday, 20th December, the South Portland City Council approved a ban on the sale of flavoured tobacco products including e-cigarettes and
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21st December 2022 - Europe |
EU: Organisers of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) “Call to achieve a tobacco-free environment and the first European tobacco-free generation by 2030” have set 16th January 2023
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21st December 2022 - Europe, Sweden |
EU: Sara Skyttedal, Swedish member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the European People’s Party, yesterday submitted a priority parliamentary question asking the
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21st December 2022 - Europe |
EU: Yesterday, 20th December, we published an alert about the delegated regulation amending Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 (CLP regulation) adopted by the European Commission
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21st December 2022 - Europe, Netherlands |
Netherlands: The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has announced a public consultation to ban tobacco-free nicotine products for oral use, such as
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21st December 2022 - Paraguay, South America |
Paraguay: The Ministry of Health warned yesterday (20th December) about the health risks associated with heated tobacco and chewing tobacco products. The ministry
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20th December 2022 - North America, United States |
US - General: The Reagan-Udall Foundation has submitted its recommendations to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Robert Califf. The recommendations focused on
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20th December 2022 - Europe |
EU: Yesterday, 19th December, the European Commission (EC) adopted a draft delegated regulation amending Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on hazard classes and criteria for
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19th December 2022 - North America, Ohio, United States |
US - Ohio: Governor Mike DeWine has hinted that he may veto House Bill 513, which would prevent political subdivisions such as cities from banning or regulating
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19th December 2022 - Europe, Portugal |
Portugal: Parliament has published the final text of the State Budget 2023, which increases the specific heated tobacco tax from €0.0845 to €0.0896
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19th December 2022 - Asia, Indonesia |
Indonesia: The Ministry of Finance has recently issued Regulation 192/PMK.010/2022, amending Regulation 193/PMK.010/2021 to set the new applicable excise duties for tobacco products for 2023
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16th December 2022 - Asia, Japan |
Japan: On 14th December, the prime minister proposed raising the tax rate on tobacco, including heated tobacco, among other commodities in order to
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16th December 2022 - Asia, Bangladesh |
Bangladesh: The Ministry of Health intends to ban vaping products and heated tobacco by amending the Smoking and Use of Tobacco Products (Control)
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16th December 2022 - Europe, Italy |
Italy: The Revenue Agency has introduced a tax code for nicotine pouches to remit the excise duties through the F-24 excise form. Nicotine pouches were regulated in
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16th December 2022 - Peru, South America |
Peru: The Ministry of Health has published an information note about the negative impact of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products on the environment.
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Austria: Health minister Johannes Rauch is working on an amendment to the Tobacco and Non-Smoker Protection Law to extend the range of public
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15th December 2022 - Europe, Ukraine |
Ukraine: The Ministry of Finance plans to increase the fee for excise stamps on heated tobacco products and e-liquids from UAH0.091 (€0.0023) to
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14th December 2022 - Europe, Sweden |
Sweden: Bill 2021/22:245, presented in May by the previous government, has been adopted by the Riksdag (parliament) together with the 2023 Budget Bill. It will
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14th December 2022 - North America, Ohio, United States |
US - Ohio: Columbus City Council has unanimously approved an ordinance banning the sale of flavoured tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and menthol tobacco.
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14th December 2022 - Africa, South Africa |
South Africa: The government has tabled the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery System Control Bill in Parliament. The latest version of the bill proposes a total ban on
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14th December 2022 - Europe, Georgia |
Georgia: Amendments to the Law on Tobacco Control came into effect yesterday, postponing the requirement for standardised plain packaging of tobacco products to
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14th December 2022 - Europe, Slovakia |
Slovakia: The government has approved the National Action Plan for the control of tobacco and related products, seeking to improve smoking prevention among
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14th December 2022 - Belarus, Europe |
Belarus: Temporary licensing of imports of heated tobacco consumables has been introduced by Resolution of the Council of Ministers, media reports. Tobacco sticks
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US - California: A motion filed by  RJ Reynolds and other tobacco companies, seeking an emergency order to stop California from enforcing the flavour
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Hungary: Parliament last week adopted a law closing a legal loophole that allowed nicotine-free herbal sticks compatible with heating devices to be sold in
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13th December 2022 - Europe, Slovenia |
Slovenia:regulation setting new excise duties on heated tobacco products has been published in the Official Gazette. The tax will be set at €110 per
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13th December 2022 - Europe |
EU: Swedish MEP Johan Nissinen, of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, has submitted a parliamentary question, asking whether the European Commission has any plans to
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13th December 2022 - Europe, Iceland |
Iceland:bill to amend the Tobacco Control Act No. 6/2022 by transposing the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into the Icelandic legal framework has been submitted to the
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13th December 2022 - Europe, Iceland |
Iceland: An amendment to Regulation 991/2022 on the packaging of nicotine products has been published in the Official Gazette, deferring the entry into force of certain labelling
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13th December 2022 - Belarus, Europe |
Belarus: Finance minister Yury Seliverstov has announced planned increases in 2023 in excise duties on tobacco products, bringing them level with Russian rates,
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12th December 2022 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The Austrian government has notified a bill to the European Commission's TRIS database to amend the Children and Young People Act. The
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12th December 2022 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: A group of senators are reintroducing the No Tax Subsidies for E-Cigarette and Tobacco Ads Act, "which would crack down
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12th December 2022 - Africa, Egypt |
Egypt: On 11th December the Ministry of Local Development announced the entry into force of Law No. 154/2019 on Licensing Stores and Premises.
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12th December 2022 - Europe, Russia |
Russia: The Ministry of Finance is proposing to gradually bring excise rates on nicotine-containing e-liquids and heated tobacco consumables to the same level
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12th December 2022 - Europe, Slovakia |
Slovakia: The government approved the National Action Plan for the control of tobacco and related products, media reports. With the plan, the ministry
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12th December 2022 - Europe |
EU: On 9th December, the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on the new battery regulation. The new regulation
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9th December 2022 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: The implementation of graphic cigarette warnings ordered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s rule has been vacated by a
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9th December 2022 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: According to a survey held by the Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the largest biomedical research institute in Germany, more than three quarters of
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7th December 2022 - Maine, North America, United States |
US - Maine: South Portland City Council is considering a ban on the sale of flavoured tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. Councillors voted 5-2 yesterday in
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7th December 2022 - Africa, Egypt |
Egypt: Ayman Abo El-Ela, chair of the parliamentary health committee, ran a seminar today titled “Reducing risks and ways to quit” to raise awareness
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7th December 2022 - Africa, Egypt |
Egypt: The Ministry of Local Development has announced that Law No. 154/2019 on Licensing Stores and Premises will come into force on Sunday,
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