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France limits sale of nicotine patches as study hints at COVID-19 treatment
28th April 2020 - News analysis |
The French government is temporarily restricting sales of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products following research suggesting nicotine patches could be used in treatment for COVID-19
Indonesian president urged to clamp down on tobacco to fight coronavirus
27th April 2020 - News analysis |
A group of non-profit and health organisations has called on Indonesian president Joko Widodo to take a stricter stance against tobacco products in the battle against COVID-19
Kentucky senators reject proposed tax increase for snus and snuff
15th April 2020 - News analysis |
Lawmakers in Kentucky have passed a new bill setting out taxes for tobacco products – but a proposal to increase tax on smokeless products was left out of the final wording
Tobacco giants go to law in bid to stop US FDA imposing graphic warnings
10th April 2020 - News analysis |
The US tobacco industry is resisting another attempt by the FDA to impose graphic health warnings, claiming in a lawsuit that mandatory warnings would violate their rights under the First Amendment
Pandemic causes US state legislatures to shut down or shut the doors
1st April 2020 - News analysis |
Legislative measures are on hold in half the states of the US due to the COVID-19 emergency, with most suspending activity until at least mid-April
US FDA prepares to extend PMTA deadline – if court agrees to it
31st March 2020 - News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested a 120-day extension to the deadline for premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) due to the challenges that the coronavirus outbreak is posing to companies
India’s most populous state bans oral tobacco mix amid coronavirus fear
26th March 2020 - News analysis |
The Food Safety and Drug Administration in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state by population, has temporarily banned pan masala, a traditional oral product popular throughout India, to try to stem the spread of COVID-19
Spain plans new measures to tighten regulations on innovative products
24th March 2020 - News analysis |
The Spanish government has announced plans to strengthen enforcement of existing tobacco regulations and to impose taxes on new products such as heated tobacco
Nicotine events still on the calendar while others fall victim to COVID-19
16th March 2020 - News analysis |
Organisers of two major conferences and exhibitions on nicotine delivery are hoping the events can still go ahead despite the global coronavirus outbreak and a number of other event cancellations and postponements
Dutch health secretary calls for a ban on public use of heated tobacco
16th March 2020 - News analysis |
Dutch health secretary Paul Blokhuis has called for heated tobacco and any future new tobacco product to be banned from public use in order to help achieve the target of a “smoke-free generation”
EU regulation and tobacco-free snus: the most likely scenario
3rd March 2020 - Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
TobaccoIntelligence’s head of legal analysis, Pablo Cano Trilla, considers the options for regulation of tobacco-free snus (sometimes known as “white pouch”) under existing European Union law
PMI ‘never approached PHE’ with its £1bn plan to promote switching
26th February 2020 - News analysis |
Public Health England (PHE) has told TobaccoIntelligence it was never directly approached by Philip Morris International (PMI) over plans for a campaign to promote heat-not-burn and vaping products
Is Australia ready to rethink its approach to reduced-risk products?
19th February 2020 - News analysis |
For several decades, Australia’s political and medical establishments have taken a hard line against smoking; but do developments like heated tobacco call for a different approach? …
Trump administration plans to take tobacco regulation out of FDA hands
13th February 2020 - News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to lose its power to regulate tobacco products if Congress passes president Donald Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2021
FDA moves on nicotine levels in combustibles, leaving e-cigs alone
15th March 2018 - News analysis |
The US FDA has taken a step closer to regulating nicotine levels in combustible cigarettes, but excluded vapour products from its proposals, even predicting a low-nicotine regime might encourage smokers toward electronic alternatives
New views on nicotine: now the FDA is reconsidering NRT, too
16th January 2018 - News analysis |
As the US FDA gets to grips with its new focus on nicotine as a single marketplace, it is planning to take a fresh look at one of the longest-established non-combustible forms of the substance – nicotine replacement therapy
The FDA’s new philosophy: ‘We need to take a fresh look at nicotine’
31st July 2017 - News analysis |
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the US FDA, appeared on Friday to go further than any federal official – or most politicians – previously had in supporting alternative nicotine products for harm reduction
