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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 ...

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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? ...

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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? ...

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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? ...

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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,...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Cannabis use may cut smoking ? but what harm lies in using both together?

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 22nd June 2023

US cannabis users are three times more likely to be cigarette smokers than those who don?t use cannabis, but this statistic is an example of the ?gateway drug fallacy? ...

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No love for novel products? EC accused of bias in tobacco law revision consultation

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 15th June 2023

A recent public consultation launched by the European Commission to evaluate the revision of Europe?s tobacco laws has raised criticism among respondents who said questions were biased against lower-risk nicotine-based smoking alternatives ...

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BAT petitions Belgium not to ban nicotine pouches, but to follow the Swedish model

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 13th June 2023

British American Tobacco (BAT) will petition Belgium?s highest administrative court, the Council of State, to annul a?royal decree?set to ban the sale of nicotine pouches from 1st October ...

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Bangladesh budget proposes spike in taxes to get harm down and revenue up

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 13th June 2023

The Bangladeshi government?s latest annual budget proposal lists a substantial rise in taxes on nicotine products, including heated tobacco devices and combustibles ...

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Is Canada clutching at straws with health warnings that go straight up in smoke?

Written by Barnaby Page | 8th June 2023

Canada?s decision to require health warnings on individual cigarettes was described by Carolyn Bennett, minister for mental health and addictions, as a ?bold action?. But it may also be an act of slight desperation ...

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Belgium aims to bring herbal products under clarified heated tobacco rules

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 31st May 2023

Herbal products and devices will fall under the Belgian regulatory framework for tobacco if a bill to incorporate Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/2100, submitted into the EU TRIS database, goes into effect unchanged ...

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In today?s India, it seems, even to talk about harm reduction issues is illegal

Written by Barnaby Page | 25th May 2023

India is far from unique in the high level of misperception about nicotine among its doctors and its politicians. But sometimes the famously fussy bureaucracy can become positively farcical ...

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Man on a mission to counter ?nicotine illiteracy? and aid smokers everywhere

Written by Lorraine Mullaney | 19th May 2023

Taking nicotine out of a tobacco context and inspiring confidence in the role it can play in harm reduction is the goal of Sudhanshu Patwardhan, medical director at the UK Centre for Health Research and...

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Fears that haunt vaping could easily lurk around other novel nicotine products too

Written by Barnaby Page | 18th May 2023

Vapour is currently the area of tobacco harm reduction where the biggest fears are focused. But that is not because it is uniquely relevant to them, in any rational sense ...

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Tobacco group calls public consultation on TPD revision a ?tick-the-box exercise?

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 15th May 2023

The EU has launched a public consultation on how it can update its tobacco control framework by revising the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and the Tobacco Advertising Directive (TAD) ...

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Is it time the WHO reconsidered its antagonism to the tobacco industry?

Written by Barnaby Page | 11th May 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) insists on keeping the tobacco industry and tobacco regulators as far apart as possible, for sound historical reasons. But is it time this policy was reconsidered? ...

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JTI plans further launches for Ploom X after UK, Italy and Lithuania successes

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 9th May 2023

Japan Tobacco International (JTI) enjoyed a solid performance in the first three months of the year, boosted by a successful launch of its Ploom X heat-not-burn (HnB) device in Italy and Lithuania ...