Regulatory & market intelligence for alternative tobacco & nicotine products
The UK government is likely to miss its 2030 smoke-free ambition for England because the government is not supporting the full range of reduced-risk products, namely snus and nicotine pouches, according to an advocate for snus and vaping
On 13th April 2022 the Belgian Competition Authority’s decision-making body, the Competition College, imposed fines totalling €36m on four major cigarette manufacturers for practices that restricted competition
The TobaccoIntelligence compliance calendar provides key regulatory deadline dates applicable to the heated tobacco, oral tobacco and other alternative tobacco sectors in key markets all over the world. View deadlines and add them to your own calendar to stay ahead of upcoming changes to regulations and restrictions applicable to sales, packaging, taxation and product requirements.
This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework in place in China for heated and oral tobacco, and nicotine pouches
This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework for heated tobacco, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, covering all policy areas
This report outlines the current regulatory framework for heated tobacco, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Greece, as well as possible upcoming regulation for such products
The EU Commission told TobaccoIntelligence that progress on the process to institute the prohibition on flavours was underway and that the latest step is expected to be finalised “soon”
Heated tobacco is regulated in Finland as a tobacco product, meaning it will have to comply with the upcoming plain packaging restrictions and possibly with the flavour ban
The FDA is looking to ban menthol-flavoured cigarettes and all characterising flavours other than tobacco in cigars – a move that would also likely eliminate the possibility of flavours in products such as heated tobacco
The long-mooted proposal to prohibit menthol is the most dramatic step the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken since the 2009 Tobacco Control Act exempted menthol from a general ban on flavoured tobacco
A group of tobacco companies, including British American Tobacco (BAT) and its subsidiaries Nicoventures and House of Prince, have sued the Danish government over legislation which came into force in 2021
The new US federal legislation has brought synthetic nicotine products under the oversight of the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), meaning all synthetic nicotine products have to go through a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) process
