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Politics & policy
How a popular tax on nicotine products could turn out to be bad for the children
6th April 2022 - Blog |
A no-doubt well-meaning ballot measure enthusiastically taken up by voters just 18 months ago now has General Assembly members in the US state of Colorado tied up in a knot of their own making
Flavoured nicotine product ban ‘would hit pre-school program’…
5th April 2022 - Alerts | Colorado, North America, United States |
Mital to take over from Zeller at FDA
31st March 2022 - Alerts | United States |
UK government will ‘consider’ putting nicotine pouches under tobacco rules
29th March 2022 - News analysis |
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published its post-implementation review of the country’s tobacco legislation
Tobacco legislation review and recommendations published…
28th March 2022 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
MPs calls for higher age limit and Big Tobacco levy…
23rd March 2022 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
Tobacco tax rise to keep oil price stable…
22nd March 2022 - Alerts | Paraguay, South America |
Denmark prepares to lead Europe with its first planned tobacco-free generation
16th March 2022 - News analysis |
Denmark could become the first country in Europe to impose a generational limit on access to tobacco and nicotine products, with a plan to ban access to tobacco and nicotine products to anyone born in or after 2010
‘World leader’ Britain fails at the first post-Brexit hurdle on novel tobacco
16th March 2022 - Blog |
When it comes to taking advantage of Brexit’s opportunities for tobacco reform, the UK appears to have balked worse than a horse at its final Olympics pentathlon
Question raised over plans to regulate pouch sales…
15th March 2022 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
Regulatory report: Sweden – HnB, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, March 2022
15th March 2022 - Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
Sweden has one of the lowest smoking rates in the EU and is the only member state where snus is allowed. Heated tobacco taxation is vague, but new regulations are being considered
Big Tobacco shuts down in Russia, lends aid to employees there and in Ukraine
14th March 2022 - News analysis |
Imperial Brands has announced that it is suspending all operations in Russia, including domestic production, and all sales and marketing activity as a result of international sanctions and the consequential severe disruption
FDA and CDC report findings on youth tobacco use…
11th March 2022 - Alerts | North America, United States |
What science should we be following on novel tobacco products – and how far?
2nd March 2022 - Blog , News analysis |
“Following the science” is one of the most misleading, clichés of the pandemic, and both advocates and enemies of novel tobacco products need to be cautious of claiming to do the same thing
Plans for a tobacco-free country…
28th February 2022 - Alerts | Asia, Turkmenistan |
State programme to make country ‘tobacco-free’…
22nd February 2022 - Alerts | Turkmenistan |
Europe adopts compromise position on reduced risk products to beat cancer
21st February 2022 - News analysis |
The European Parliament has adopted the BECA report – the first time a European institution has formally acknowledged reduced risk products could play a role in smoking cessation – with some caveats
Do sin taxes achieve the desired effect, or do they add up to a temptation to sin?
17th February 2022 - Blog , News analysis |
Whatever the motives behind it, punitive or would-be persuasive taxation has many of the same drawbacks as prohibition
Parliament discusses new regulations…
16th February 2022 - Alerts | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe |
Senate in a hurry over FDA appointment…
15th February 2022 - Alerts | United States |
MEPs prepare for first full parliamentary debate on European ‘beating cancer’ plan
8th February 2022 - News analysis |
The European Parliament’s first debate on the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA)’s report into how to strengthen Europe’s fight against cancer will take place on 15th February
Philippine doctors urge president to veto novel tobacco bill over addiction fears
3rd February 2022 - News analysis |
The Philippine College of Physicians is lobbying against a bill to regulate vaping and novel tobacco products. They object to a lower age limit and the removal of flavour restrictions
Why does Switzerland lag behind its neighbours on tobacco control issues?
7th January 2022 - Blog , News analysis |
Switzerland faces two referendum votes crucial to the future of tobacco product advertising in the country
‘It doesn’t make sense’ – public health expert criticises Taipei’s HnB ban
27th December 2021 - News analysis |
A new blanket ban in Taiwan’s capital on the sale and import of tobacco-alternative products is heavy-handed and nonsensical, an expert in the city’s medical university says
New Zealand’s cunning birthdate-based scheme to wipe out smoking for good
22nd December 2021 - Blog , News analysis |
New Zealand has designated a cohort of young people – those who will be 14 or younger when the government’s proposed law comes into effect – who will never be old enough to smoke
US Senate committee ditches nicotine tax from Biden’s Build Back Better Bill
14th December 2021 - News analysis |
The US Senate Finance Committee has made “targeted improvements” to president Joe Biden’s $2tn social spending package – including removing the proposal of a federal tax on tobacco alternatives
How will TPD3 deal with newly emerged products? Our survey offers a few clues
2nd December 2021 - Blog , News analysis |
Sooner or later the EU will have a new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), and one of the big questions will be how it treats new product categories which barely existed at the time of TPD2
How have MEPs changed in their views about new nicotine products?
30th November 2021 - Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
TobaccoIntelligence carried out a second survey of MEPs, following a similar survey in 2020, to find out how their views on new nicotine products – e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches – have changed
China brings ‘new tobacco products’ under its tobacco monopoly umbrella
30th November 2021 - News analysis |
The State Council of China has approved an addition to the Tobacco Monopoly Law, clarifying what has been a grey area surrounding the regulation and categorisation of tobacco-alternative products
What caused a scrap in the Philippines government over tobacco alternatives?
24th November 2021 - Blog , News analysis |
Conflict between public health and political-economic interests seems to be the main reason behind an internal dispute between the Philippine delegation to COP9 and officials at the country’s Department of Health
US House gives green light to new tax on nicotine pouches in Biden’s spending bill
22nd November 2021 - News analysis |
The US House of Representatives has passed by 220 votes to 213 president Joe Biden’s $1.75tn social spending bill, including a new federal tax on nicotine pouches
UK Tobacco Control Plan ‘must tackle misinformation’ about alternatives
18th November 2021 - News analysis |
UK MPs have called on the government to ensure that the forthcoming Tobacco Control Plan will be taken as an opportunity to tackle misinformation around tobacco alternatives and to encourage switching
Califf may hit the ground running – but which way will he go on nicotine?
18th November 2021 - Blog , News analysis |
Robert Califf’s expected return to head the US FDA has excited plenty of attention in the world of e-cigarettes, but there’s been much less talk about the likely impact on heated tobacco, pouches and other novel nicotine products
Regulatory report: Portugal – HnB, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, November 2021
12th November 2021 - Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
In Portugal heated tobacco and other “novelties” are subject to the same restrictions as traditional cigarettes in terms of sales, advertising and public place usage. Official authorisation must be obtained before marketing products
COP9 parties agree on ‘need to regulate’ heated tobacco products
12th November 2021 - News analysis |
The all-online COP9 finished without major decision, but with calls for serious attention to be given to novel and emerging tobacco products at COP10 in 2023
WHO accused of ‘counterproductive, irrational’ policy on alternatives
8th November 2021 - News analysis |
Experts have urged the parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) to embrace a “more assertive” stance on smoke-free alternatives
