Tobacco companies wait for a judicial verdict on the validity of an EU directive outlawing heated tobacco flavours across Europe, but the ban has already come into effect
A French anti-smoking group has called for a ban on non-tobacco flavours in all nicotine products as well as for the regulation of nicotine pouch advertising, while accusing PMI of flouting advertising rules
Finland is among the first EU countries to take concrete steps towards banning flavours for heated tobacco products. The Finnish parliament has approved the government’s proposal to add to the Finnish Tobacco Act the definition of heated tobacco and to ban heated tobacco flavours
In one of many skirmishes over proposed flavour bans popping up around the US, Californians have voted to approve Proposition 31, upholding a 2020 law that would prohibit the sale of certain flavoured tobacco products
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 European Parliament