LATEST ALERTS
US - federal: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received more than 110,000 comments on the proposed rule prohibiting menthol cigarettes and around 60,000 comments on
US - federal: A US district judge from Washington DC has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s decision to deem the category of
Iceland: A bill amending Law 87/2018 on electronic cigarettes and refills has today come into force. The law makes nicotine pouches subject to the same
Ukraine: From today the use of heated tobacco is banned in the same places where smoking is prohibited.
Pakistan: The government has raised the threshold under which expensive cigarette brands are taxed at the same time it has raised the excise
Paraguay: On 6th July the Chamber of Deputies approved the country’s ratification of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, an international
Iceland: On 1st July the Ministry of Health made its legislative plans to amend the Tobacco Control Act following the incorporation of the European Tobacco Products
Malaysia: The minister of health said today, 8th July, that the bill banning the sale of tobacco products to all those born after
Saudi Arabia: The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority has introduced an initial draft through the Public Consultation Platform, proposing amendments to the executive
Brazil: The board of the National Public Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) decided unanimously at an extraordinary meeting yesterday, 6th July, to maintain the existing
UK: Junior health minister Maggie Throup has told MPs that the Committee on Toxicity of Food, Consumer Products and the Environment will consider its draft statement
EU: The European Council’s public health working party will tomorrow discuss tomorrow the Commission delegated directive applying the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) flavour ban to heated tobacco.
Philippines: Presidential spokesperson Trixie Cruz-Angeles has told reporters that the new president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, has given no indication of whether or not
Romania: The Ministry of Finance has introduced a bill to progressively increase the excise duty on heated tobacco products. It proposes a rate
Brazil: The National Public Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) was to discuss the regulation of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco in an extraordinary meeting today, 6th
Belarus: The excise tax on heated tobacco rose on 1st July to BYR170.26 ($50.30) per kg under presidential decree №224. The rate will
Kazakhstan: Jamilya Sadykova, leader of the national coalition “For a Smoke-Free Kazakhstan”, is suing Philip Morris Kazakhstan over sponsorship and inappropriate advertising of
EU: EU law requires certain large companies to disclose information on the way they operate and manage social and environmental challenges. The European Council and
Portugal: The Directorate-General for Health has launched its 2030 National Strategy for the Fight against Cancer. Among measures proposed are an increase in e-cigarette and tobacco
Portugal: The State Budget 2022, which increases the heated tobacco tax from €0.0837/g to €0.0845/g and sets that the tax cannot be less
Egypt: Today (1st July) the Egyptian Tax Authority published a warning against the sale of tobacco products, heated tobacco and e-cigarettes that do
Panama: A law that forbids heated tobacco, e-cigarettes and other devices, with or without nicotine, was enacted today (1st July). The law makes an exception
US - California: San Jose’s ban on flavoured tobacco becomes effective today, 1st July, prohibiting the sale of any tobacco products and e-cigarettes with
North Macedonia: Today, 1st July 2022, a new excise duty for heated tobacco products and chewing tobacco enters into force as a result
Hungary: Pursuant to Government Decree 197/2022, the new excise duty applicable to heated tobacco products, chewing tobacco products and nicotine pouches starts today, 1st
Germany: Today (30th June) is the deadline for tobacco product manufacturers and importers to submit their annual market data report on heated tobacco
Egypt: The Egyptian customs authority has published instruction No. 46/2022. Although there is still a degree of discussion, TobaccoIntelligence understands the instruction prohibits
Italy: The research institute Eurispes published a self-regulation code for the sale, marketing and advertising of vapes and heated tobacco products. The code is voluntary
Netherlands: The Act amending the Tobacco and Smoking Products Act will come into force tomorrow, 1st July, regulating heated tobacco devices as tobacco-related
EU: The European Commission today adopted the “Commission Delegated Directive on the withdrawal of certain exemptions in respect of heated tobacco products”, amending the Tobacco Products
Vietnam: Luu Binh Pyong, a member of the one-party National Assembly, has criticised the loose management of novel tobacco products and spoken out against a
Philippines: After campaigning in a televised briefing against the Vaporized Nicotine Products Regulation Bill, the Department of Health has issued a statement urging president
Hungary: The Ministry of Finance told TobaccoIntelligence today that 1.084bn heated tobacco consumables were released onto the market between January and May, bringing in
Russia: The State Duma Budget and Taxes Committee has backed a government amendment which would increase excise rates on heated tobacco consumables and
Cambodia: The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports issued guidelines on the prevention of the use of heated tobacco products in public and
Egypt: The Egyptian Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) has extended to October the deadline for manufacturers, importers and distributors of tobacco and its alternatives to
Belgium: The government has notified fellow EU member states through the TRIS Database of a bill to ban nicotine pouches and cannabinoid-containing pouches. It says
Philippines: The Department of Health has asked charities, clubs and community organisations in a televised briefing to help it campaign against the Vaporized Nicotine Products Regulation
Bangladesh: A proposed amendment to the Smoking and Using of Tobacco Products (Control) Act entails a ban on production, import, and sales of
Hungary: The Supervisory Authority for Regulated Activities (SZTFH) has announced the rejection by the EU of Hungary’s request through TRIS notification to include nicotine-free herbal sticks compatible with tobacco-heating
EU: The European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG-Santé) has published a document entitled Healthier Together, on the EU non-communicable
Bulgaria: A budget bill which would have gradually increased excise tax on heated tobacco products will not be voted on after the government was dissolved
South Korea: Heated tobacco products will have to carry new pictorial warnings from 23rd December following a decision by the National Health Promotion Policy Deliberative
Oman: The Omani Consumer Protection Authority today published a warning stressing its commitment to enforcing the ban on alternative (smokeless) tobacco products. It announced
EU: The European Commission yesterday launched an initiative to review the Council’s 2009 Recommendation on smoke-free environments. The initiative seeks to extend the recommendation’s coverage to include
Kazakhstan: The concept of harm reduction, as well as the regulation of new nicotine products, has been discussed at the first Eurasian nicotine
Iceland: The final text of the bill amending Law 87/2018 on electronic cigarettes and refills, approved, as we previously reported on, by the Althingi (Iceland parliament) on 16th
UK: Answering questions from members of parliament (MPs), junior health secretary Maggie Throup said that the next Vaping in England report, which will
