Falling Spanish e-cigarette sales have led to job losses, with vape stores closing, according to the country’s Union of Vaping Promoters and Entrepreneurs
The US Senate has passed an act which raises the minimum sale or purchase age for tobacco products from 18 to 21 nationwide
The conservative parties in Germany’s ruling coalition have come out in support of a comprehensive ban on outdoor advertising for tobacco products that would come into force between 2022 and 2024
A new anti-smoking campaign by the Spanish government takes on smoking, vaping, heated tobacco and hookahs under the motto “El tabaco ata y te mata” (“Tobacco ties and kills you”)
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
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
Countries that ban tobacco alternative products could be breaking world trade agreements by unfairly privileging combustibles at their expense, two lawyers have warned
This special report takes a company-by-company look at the main Big Tobacco players and their activity in e-cigarettes and other tobacco alternatives
Philip Morris International (PMI) will no longer be conspicuous in the tobacco alternatives market by its absence