Sooner or later the EU will have a new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), and one of the big questions will be how it treats new product categories which barely existed at the time of TPD2...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 30th November 2021
TobaccoIntelligence carried out a second survey of MEPs, following a similar survey in 2020, to find out how their views on new nicotine products – e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches – have changed ...
Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 30th November 2021
The use of traditional tobacco products has been in decline across the EU in recent decades. We conducted a recent study to gauge the economic impact of novel nicotine products in Europe ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 24th November 2021
Conflict between public health and political-economic interests seems to be the main reason behind an internal dispute between the Philippine delegation to COP9 and officials at the country’s Department of Health ...
Robert Califf's expected return to head the US FDA has excited plenty of attention in the world of e-cigarettes, but there’s been much less talk about the likely impact on heated tobacco, pouches and other...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 16th November 2021
Tobacco giant Imperial Brands has told investors that the ongoing trials of its Pulze heated tobacco device and iD consumables in Central and Eastern Europe were “progressing well” ...
Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 10th November 2021
The misleading advertising of tobacco alternatives on social media has become a critical concern of public health groups and some governments around the world ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 4th November 2021
The Swiss Federal Assembly has adopted a longstanding bill that will implement new restrictions on tobacco-alternative products, including specific regulations on packaging and promotion ...
Why won’t the World Health Organization (WHO) talk about tobacco alternatives? It’s never been shy before about putting forward its extreme scepticism ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 29th October 2021
European countries have publicly expressed disagreement with the World Health Organization (WHO)’s decision to postpone discussions of novel tobacco products, keeping them out of the upcoming COP9 ...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 27th October 2021
Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) found that plain packaging did not produce a decline in men’s snus use in Norway, with “inconclusive results” on both smoking and women’s snus use ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued marketing authorisation for four mint-flavoured oral tobacco products that were withdrawn from the US market in 2019 ...
While the decision to give marketing authorisation to some RJ Reynolds relates specifically to e-cigarette products, it’s highly likely that much the same priorities will govern official thinking on other alternative products ...