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Reading between the fault lines in the FDA’s approach to tobacco regulation

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 21st September 2023

The difficulties the US FDA faces regulating novel nicotine are most obvious with e-cigs, rather than other categories, partly due to the sheer number of companies and products involved, and the issue of youth usage...

UK ASA not a fan of influencers peddling nicotine, but where’s the regulation?

Written by Freddie Dawson | 14th September 2023

Social media influencers to market nicotine pouches has been drawing media attention, but the marketing of pouches in the UK remains rather unregulated ...

PMI ups its investment in its Romanian plant for smoke-free products to $730m

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 13th September 2023

Global tobacco group Philip Morris International (PMI) is scaling up the investment in its Romanian smoke-free product factory to $730m (€680m) ...

Podcast: Present and future trends in vape, heated tobacco and nicotine pouch products

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 13th September 2023

In this podcast we speak to Aron Byrne-Carter, whose company NGP Trends provides businesses with valuable technical insights on the latest developments across vape, heated tobacco and nicotine pouch products ...

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Is the FDA clearing up misperceptions – or is it sending mixed signals?

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 7th September 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seems to be looking for the right words to educate smokers about reduced-risk tobacco and nicotine products ...

Italy implements EU HTP flavour ban, but ambiguity could cause misinterpretation

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 1st September 2023

Italy’s parliament has passed a law implementing the EU ban on flavours in heated tobacco – but ambiguity in its definition of the category may lead to difficulties in interpretation ...

ITGA calls for understanding of the challenges faced by tobacco growers

Written by Lorraine Mullaney | 23rd August 2023

The world’s tobacco growers are facing urgent economic, social and environmental challenges, from rising production costs and stagnating prices to labour shortages, unseasonable weather, soil degradation and deforestation ...

The pollution problem – the latest culprits, who’s to blame and is it solvable?

Written by Barnaby Page | 18th August 2023

The vast volumes of waste and litter attributable to vaping have become a major issue in recent months, and even if some of the media coverage seems biased, the underlying problem is real enough ...

UK government launches consultation on inserts in tobacco products

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 17th August 2023

The UK government has launched a public consultation on adding inserts to cigarette packs to encourage smokers to quit ...

A blogger’s farewell – the inside dope on the tobacco alternatives question

Written by Aidan Semmens | 10th August 2023

After the opening question, “Have you ever used cannabis?” came the follow-up: “Do you think it did you any harm?” To which my honest answer was: “Yes. It got me hooked on tobacco” ...

BAT’s Zonnic approval ‘could open a path into Canada for other nicotine pouches’

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 8th August 2023

Health Canada has approved the first nicotine pouch authorised for sale in Canada as an over-the-counter cessation aid – a move some say could open the door to other nicotine pouches hitting the market ...

Sustainability versus waste and pollution – it’s the major, growing issue we all face

Written by Aidan Semmens | 3rd August 2023

While no industry, from aviation to mining, farming to fishing, can pretend to be uninvolved in the major growing issue of the environment, the tobacco industry is as inescapably bound up in the debate as...

RJ Reynolds wants judge’s rejection of US FDA’s graphic health warnings upheld

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 31st July 2023

Lawyers for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company call the US Food and Drug Administration’s defence of its graphic cigarette warnings “half-hearted” in a new legal brief ...

Did gloomy forecasts for regulation of novel nicotine products get it wrong?

Written by Barnaby Page | 21st July 2023

There are several reasons to be cautiously negative about the direction regulation of novel nicotine products will follow, globally – but does that make up a fair picture? ...

Pirates refuse to walk the government line on Czechs’ nicotine pouch tax plan

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 18th July 2023

The Czech Pirate Party, a member of the government coalition, has voiced opposition to the cabinet’s proposal to impose a tax of CZK3.45 (€0.14) per g on nicotine pouches and “other nicotine products” ...

What we talk about when we talk about tobacco – the missing word is ‘nicotine’

Written by Barnaby Page | 13th July 2023

What’s in a name? Where the novel nicotine products sector is concerned, what’s more significant may be what’s not in the names of its categories – specifically, the word “nicotine” ...

Nicotine pouches demo tracker

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 10th July 2023

The TobaccoIntelligence Nicotine Pouch Product Tracker, available exclusively to subscribers, provides a detailed, comparative analysis of thousands of products in the largest nicotine pouch markets around the world (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden,...

Gripped in a vice between the powers of Big Government and Big Tobacco

Written by Aidan Semmens | 6th July 2023

It’s an awkward complication in any global narrative about fairness, equality and social responsibility, that an awful lot of people in mostly lower-income countries owe their livelihoods to growing tobacco ...

Argentina’s shocked tobacco farmers put up a fight against HTP production ban

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 4th July 2023

Tobacco growers in Argentina are continuing efforts – so far unsuccessful – to overturn a resolution banning the production of heated tobacco products in the country ...

Finland gets answers on nicotine pouch regulations with new government

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 30th June 2023

Following recent uncertainy, Finland’s newly formed government has confirmed that the legal status of nicotine pouches in the country will not change ...