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Boom in novel tobacco products outstrips vaping growth – exactly as we foresaw

Written by Freddie Dawson | 18th January 2023

TobaccoIntelligence predicted a year ago that increasing restrictions and taxes on vaping products would drive more users to other tobacco alternatives in 2022. And it does appear that this has been the case ...

Health warning: ‘science’ so badly flawed it should never have been published

Written by Barnaby Page | 11th January 2023

There remains a worryingly large amount of research on novel nicotine products which makes casual, almost always negative, assumptions...and the occasional item so faulty it should never have been published at all ...

Roman court to settle battle over JTI’s claim low-level menthol isn’t a flavour

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 11th January 2023

An upcoming court ruling in Rome could help to determine whether a European Commission directive prohibiting the addition of a “characterising flavour” to conventional cigarettes is sufficiently clear ...

US survey reveals no post-pandemic bounce back in teenage nicotine use

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 5th January 2023

Nicotine use among US adolescents remained stable in 2022, after a significant decrease in 2020 and 2021, according to a national survey ...

Of headaches, pirates, and how far weed is growing as cigarette smoking declines

Written by Aidan Semmens | 5th January 2023

Correlation is not causation, but it’s tempting to see a meaningful pattern in figures showing that US adults (particularly the younger ones) are smoking less tobacco and using more cannabis ...

A good year for Big Tobacco, alternatively speaking, while rules are tightened

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 30th December 2022

The year gone by saw phenomenal growth across the global market for tobacco alternatives, including in the oral segment, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches ...

A world first for New Zealand – but what does a generational cigarette ban mean?

Written by Barnaby Page | 22nd December 2022

New Zealand’s ban on cigarette sales to people born after 1st January 2009 may look like a dry run for complete prohibition. But there’s a crucial difference ...

BAT reports ‘sustainable growth’, over 3m new consumers in non-combustibles

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 19th December 2022

British American Tobacco (BAT) said its “new category” business continues to drive substantial volume, revenue, and market share growth – significantly contributing to the company’s overall performance ...

The genie’s out of the bottle – it’s time the pros and antis got their heads together

Written by Barnaby Page | 13th December 2022

Many companies, some countries, and of course consumers in their millions are making headway in replacing combustible tobacco with safer alternatives…but what’s holding back the others? ...

Anti-smoking group sues Health Canada while calling for a nicotine-free future

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 1st December 2022

An anti-smoking group is taking the Canadian government to court in a bid to force it to complete its review of the federal law governing tobacco and vaping products ...

Swedish Match and a cheaper Iqos – PMI’s ‘cunning plan’ begins to become clear

Written by Barnaby Page | 24th November 2022

There’s been plenty of speculation about PMI’s plans for its new business – but if I were an evil tobacco mastermind trying to prevent uptake of less risky products, very publicly buying Swedish Match wouldn’t...

How will new EU rules on batteries affect the tobacco alternatives industry?

Written by Dmytro Korchahin | 17th November 2022

The upcoming revision of the regulation of batteries in the EU may well have a profound effect the heated tobacco industry, with safety, sustainability and the environment all coming under the lawmakers' microscope ...

Further European launches follow Pulze success in Greece and Czech Republic

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 15th November 2022

Tobacco giant Imperial Brands has told investors that its heated tobacco device Pulze and iD consumables, continued to perform well in its pilot markets of the Czech Republic and Greece,...

The tobacco giant’s officer who sees past the politicians’ global greenwash policies

Written by Aidan Semmens | 9th November 2022

Jennifer Motles, chief sustainability officer for PMI, has urged companies of all kinds to go beyond seeing ESG (environmental, social and governance) impact reporting as a tick-box exercise ...

Big Tobacco companies on the road to leaving Russian domestic market

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 7th November 2022

Tobacco producers from around the globe plan to complete their exit from the Russian market by the end of the year by transferring business to local partners, according to recent statements made by company representatives ...

Heated tobacco flavours ban now official, and will apply throughout the EU

Written by Sergi Riudalbas | 3rd November 2022

Flavours in heated tobacco products will be banned throughout the EU after a Delegated Directive was published in the Official Journal, with no objection coming from either the Council of the European Union or the...

Nicotine pouch consumers – a UK/US comparison

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 31st October 2022

TobaccoIntelligence launched a consumer survey in May 2022 to analyse the patterns among nicotine pouch users in the UK and the US ...

Taxing novel nicotine products in Latin America – the WHO, the why and the how

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 19th October 2022

While nobody seriously argues that combustibles shouldn’t be taxed, the taxation of novel nicotine products has always been a controversial issue ...

US Gallup poll shows cigarette smoking down, cannabis consumption up

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 18th October 2022

Smoking cigarettes is going out of fashion, but having smoked cannabis is becoming much more common in the US, according to recent research conducted by analytics and polling firm Gallup ...

Coming soon to a nicotine product near you – the correlation/causation fallacy

Written by Barnaby Page | 13th October 2022

As novel nicotine products grow in popularity, it's only a matter of time before false links are drawn between them and the use of some other substance, be it cannabis or combustible tobacco or saturated...