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Just over a year after the Czech government unveiled a new, ambitious action plan to fight addictions, doubts are being raised over the government’s alignment with its own declared war on addictions
Is smoking and vaping worse than just smoking, or is it potentially beneficial for those addicted to combustible tobacco use, who may, at some point, quit it completely?
The use of tobacco and nicotine products declined nearly 4% among high school students in the US between 2022 and 2023, a national survey has found
Barely a month after Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte signed a law setting taxes on heated tobacco and vaping products, the House of Representatives has opted to change the entire tax structure
The Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency, ANVISA, is to launch a public consultation as a step towards deciding whether to amend the national ban e-cigs and heated tobacco
British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched Glo Sens in Korea, a new hybrid pod product which combines vaping technology with real tobacco
A new tobacco law is likely to form the basis of future regulation of heated tobacco products and e-cigarettes in Switzerland, a country that is in Europe but outside the EU
This report on Israel includes near-future regulation involving age restrictions, product restrictions, labelling and packaging, obligation to notify, retail channels, public usage, advertising and marketing
The rhetoric coming out of the eighth Conference of the Parties (COP8) in Geneva suggests the World Health Organization is unlikely to give vaping products or HnB a role in its anti-tobacco policies any time soon
The different cultural and regulatory regimes surrounding vaping and heated tobacco in South Korea were on display at the country’s first vaping show
India’s Ministry of Health, Family and Welfare has issued an advisory to all states to ban e-cigarettes and heated tobacco
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signed an administrative order prohibiting the import and marketing of any e-cigarette product with a nicotine concentration higher than 20 mg/ml
The South Korean e-cigarette market is tied in with the heat-not-burn category and future market development will partly depend on how consumers react to the latest moves in HnB regulation
China Tobacco, the Chinese state monopoly, looks set to increase its involvement in alternative products, including both e-cigarettes and heated tobacco – possibly in co-operation with major foreign companies
After early growth, the vaping population of Romania has levelled out at around 200,000, just over 4% of the smoking population – but the country is a prime testing ground for heated tobacco, with IQOS, Glo and iFuse all in the market
The UK government committee which this month concluded that heat-not-burn products are safer than combustibles now wants to compare them to e-cigarettes
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