LATEST ALERTS
US - California: Attorney general Rob Bonta yesterday announced $22m in state funding for local government agencies to tackle the illegal sale of tobacco products,
Ireland: The Oireachtas (parliament) Joint Health Committee is considering regulating nicotine pouches and heated tobacco. The committee has published a report containing submissions by
US - general: Major tobacco companies have reached a settlement with the US Department of Justice regarding tobacco-related health messages at retail locations,
EU: Tomorrow, 20th July, is the last day to submit feedback on the initiative to review the Council of the European Union’s 2009 recommendation
EU: The Council of the European Union has told TobaccoIntelligence that the Agriculture and Fisheries Council agreed today to extend by two months
US - California: Millbrae City Council intends to prepare an ordinance that would prohibit the sale of flavoured tobacco products within the city, which lies
US - Hawaii: House Bill (HB) 1570 has been vetoed by the governor. The version as it currently stands would ban the sale of
EU: Sources within the European Union told TobaccoIntelligence that yesterday (13th July) the Permanent Representatives Committee approved the request from the Working Party
US - federal: New warning letters have been issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Among them is the warning: “Please be
US - general: The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to enforce the congressionally mandated deadline and clear the
Malaysia: The Cabinet yesterday approved the Tobacco and Smoking Control Bill that sets out to ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born in
US - general: Today, 13th July, is the final date for synthetic nicotine products to be marketed in the US without a premarket
US - federal: The American Vapor Manufacturers Association has formally asked the inspector general of the US Department of Health and Human Services to investigate
Spain: The Ministry of Health has decided not to continue with its planned amendment to the Tobacco Act, press reports. The government has decided there
US - federal: Tomorrow, 13th July, is the last day for synthetic nicotine products to be marketed in the US without a premarket tobacco product
Philippines: The Presidential Office has confirmed to TobaccoIntelligence that it received the Vaporized Nicotine Products Regulation Bill, which will further regulate heated tobacco products, on
Hungary: The Supervisory Authority for Regulatory Activities (SZFTH) has provided TobaccoIntelligence with sales data on heated tobacco products, chewing tobacco and nicotine pouches. In 2021, 1.6bn
EU: The European Council of Ministers' Working Party on Public Health has requested a two-month extension of scrutiny on the Commission Delegated Directive
Saudi Arabia: The National Committee for Tobacco Control has tweeted that the Islamic pilgrimage season, the Hajj, is an opportunity to quit smoking,
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
