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Weekly regulatory podcast: 22nd-26th May
30th May 2023 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
In today’s India, it seems, even to talk about harm reduction issues is illegal
25th May 2023 - Blog |
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
Health equality expert joins federal tobacco watchdog…
23rd May 2023 - Alerts | North America, United States |
Man on a mission to counter ‘nicotine illiteracy’ and aid smokers everywhere
19th May 2023 - News analysis |
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 Education (CHRE)
Fears that haunt vaping could easily lurk around other novel nicotine products too
18th May 2023 - Blog |
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
Weekly regulatory podcast: 8th-12th May
16th May 2023 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
Is it time the WHO reconsidered its antagonism to the tobacco industry?
11th May 2023 - Blog |
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?
New restrictions to tobacco law as Norway gears up to implement TPD
5th May 2023 - News analysis |
An increasing age limit to prevent future generations from accessing tobacco products and a ban on flavours are two of the most important elements of new regulations being considered in Norway
Weekly regulatory podcast: 24th-28th April
3rd May 2023 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
Study raises higher hopes for heated tobacco in the smoking cessation stakes
13th April 2023 - Blog |
Heated tobacco has never attracted the same level of scientific attention as vaping – but the encouraging results of a new study may change that
Statistics on kids’ smoking behaviours may be looked at in very different ways
6th April 2023 - Blog |
While statistics are vital to understanding our world, they are often misunderstood – and that can be important when it comes to forming opinions and laws on controversial issues such as tobacco
Europe taking on novel products as it aims for a ‘tobacco-free environment’
6th March 2023 - News analysis |
A European Council recommendation due in the autumn will be “a recommendation for a tobacco-free environment, regardless of the form tobacco takes”
Opinions on new nicotine products among MEPs: a survey
2nd March 2023 - Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
For the third year running, in late 2022 we surveyed members of the European Parliament (MEPs) about their views on new nicotine products – e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches. This report details our findings
Council awards funding for research campaign into smoking behaviours…
13th February 2023 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
Health warning: ‘science’ so badly flawed it should never have been published
11th January 2023 - Blog |
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
US survey reveals no post-pandemic bounce back in teenage nicotine use
5th January 2023 - News analysis |
Nicotine use among US adolescents remained stable in 2022, after a significant decrease in 2020 and 2021, according to a national survey
Poll finds cannabis now twice as popular as tobacco smoking with young US adults
4th January 2023 - News analysis |
Based on recently published Gallup data, more than twice as many young adults in the US say they smoke cannabis as smoke conventional cigarettes
The genie’s out of the bottle – it’s time the pros and antis got their heads together
13th December 2022 - Blog |
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?
Health secretary proposes further measures for smoke-free generation…
5th December 2022 - Alerts | Europe, Netherlands |
UK: consumer survey – a journey analysis of vaping and nicotine pouch usage
30th November 2022 - Market reports , Nicotine pouches market reports |
This report focuses on the nicotine consumption journey in the UK by analysing the time periods for which each respondent has used tobacco alternatives – such as vaping products and nicotine pouches – in addition to the time they have used traditional cigarettes
Pouch users ‘at risk of taking in more nicotine than smokers’ – German study
8th November 2022 - News analysis |
Using nicotine pouches can lead to higher nicotine intake than smoking, according to Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
US Gallup poll shows cigarette smoking down, cannabis consumption up
18th October 2022 - News analysis |
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
13th October 2022 - Blog |
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 fats
‘Everyone practises harm reduction, so why not for tobacco?’ ask health experts
13th September 2022 - News analysis |
Scientists need to communicate more effectively with politicians and the public to ensure the US overcomes a long-held prohibitionist mindset on tobacco harm reduction, according to some public health experts
The pros and cons of a menthol tobacco ban raise strong feelings on both sides
5th September 2022 - News analysis |
A proposed US ban on menthol cigarettes and flavoured cigars, which would also apply to heated tobacco products – currently regulated as conventional cigarettes – has stirred up strong passions either way
Choice of Delnevo to head US FDA tobacco science committee is warmly received
1st September 2022 - News analysis |
Cristine Delnevo, the new chair of the US FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC), has been hailed as an “objective, thoughtful scientist” with an understanding of research into harm reduction
Banned as a novel food? One day tobacco might be accepted as a super-food
18th August 2022 - Blog |
While nicotine pouches are classed in the EU as food products with an unauthorised ingredient, it could be argued that there is nothing novel about tobacco, or nicotine, in food – and it could have an important future too
Report rubbishes ‘reduced harm’ claims…
17th August 2022 - Alerts | Central America, North America, South America |
Lack of solid science stokes fears and doubts over safety of nicotine pouches
16th August 2022 - News analysis |
While nicotine pouches are growing in popularity fast, the state of science on their safety remains threadbare
Tobacco studies director to chair FDA science advisory committee…
10th August 2022 - Alerts | North America, United States |
Who, and where, is the science on novel tobacco products coming from?
10th August 2022 - Blog |
Scientific research into novel nicotine alternatives has so far largely focused on vaping, but that is likely to change as the products become more widespread
