Tobacco ads in Germany – spending goes up while ban debate goes on

Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th February 2020 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

While politicians in Germany continue to debate a future ban on tobacco-related advertising, new figures show that expenditure on ads by the country’s tobacco industry has increased ...

U-turn in Croatia as government ditches plan to impose e-liquid tax

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd February 2020 || News analysis |

The Croatian government has scrapped a plan to levy a tax on e-liquids just days after putting the proposal out for public comment ...

Greece rejects a ban and opts instead to regulate shake and vape products

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd February 2020 || News analysis |

In a move that will please the Greek Electronic Cigarette Businesses Association, the country’s government has decided after all to regulate do-it-yourself (DIY) vaping products in Greece ...

Regulatory report: Morocco, February 2020

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd February 2020 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

This regulatory report provides information on the restrictions on vaping in Morocco, which are limited, looking at the general regulatory landscape as well as taxation ...

Massachusetts court halts in-state sales of several online vaping retailers

Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st January 2020 || News analysis |

Massachusetts court grants a preliminary injunction to ban several US companies from selling their vaping products to state residents ...

JT to slash prices of Ploom Tech devices in bid to capture Japanese market

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th January 2020 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Japan Tobacco (JT) is cutting the price of its Ploom Tech and Ploom Tech+ hybrid devices from 1st February as it continues to lag behind its chief Big Tobacco competitors in its home market ...

Switzerland’s leading heated tobacco brands

Written by ECigIntelligence || 28th January 2020 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

ECigIntelligence analysis identifies the most sold heated tobacco consumable, which is consistent with online trends showing the brands garnering the most interest. For more insights including forecasts, market shares and retailer survey analysis, see the full Switzerland market...

Regulatory report: Myanmar, January 2020

Written by ECigIntelligence || 28th January 2020 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

E-cigarettes and related products are legal in Myanmar, where they are not specifically regulated by any law ...

Reinsurers hand out warnings over life and health insurance for vapers

Written by ECigIntelligence || 22nd January 2020 || News analysis |

Lack of reliable scientific data on the long-term effects of vaping is leading life and health insurers to take a cautious approach to insuring e-cigarette users ...

New Jersey legislature passes ban on sales of flavoured e-cigarettes

Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st January 2020 || News analysis |

The New Jersey Senate and State Assembly have both approved proposals to ban the sale of flavoured vapour products across the state and stiffen penalties for sales to minors ...

Wisconsin governor Evers announces multi-point plan to cut youth vaping

Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th January 2020 || News analysis |

Wisconsin governor Tony Evers has announced that his administration will work to curb youth vaping in the state through various actions including bills to ban sales to minors and an e-cig ban in schools ...

Regulatory report: California, January 2020

Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th January 2020 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

Californian regulation of e-cigs is tightening. This report covers all aspects of the regulations in place and planned, from age restrictions to taxation, labelling and marketing restrictions ...

Judge rules Cuomo overstepped the mark in trying to ban flavours

Written by ECigIntelligence || 15th January 2020 || News analysis |

A New York State Supreme Court judge has blocked the emergency regulation banning the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes announced last September by governor Andrew Cuomo ...

Indonesian policy group suggests tax incentive for tobacco alternatives

Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th January 2020 || News analysis |

A plan by the Indonesian government to equate vaping products with combustible cigarettes has been criticised by a Jakarta-based policy think-tank ...

South Africa’s vaping market fights back against impact of US health crisis

Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th January 2020 || News analysis |

The recent highly publicised outbreak of vape-related lung illness in the US appears to have had a damaging impact on the vaping business in South Africa, despite the strength of the market ...

Latin America hardware price ranges

Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th January 2020 || News analysis |

Latin America’s biggest e-cigarette market is Mexico followed by Brazil. Interestingly, ECigIntelligence found that these two markets also have the largest price ranges for hardware. To understand more about both new and established Latin American e-cig markets, see...

California proposes bill to ban all flavoured e-cigs, including menthol

Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th January 2020 || News analysis |

Californian lawmakers have introduced a bill in the state legislature that would ban the sale of all flavoured tobacco products, including those containing menthol ...

UK advertising watchdog orders Vype to tone down its online promotion

Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th January 2020 || News analysis |

The UK’s advertising watchdog has found that BAT failed to follow national regulations on its website and through YouTube commercials for its Vype e-cigarette brand ...

South Korean inspectors find labels understate nicotine level in e-liquids

Written by ECigIntelligence || 8th January 2020 || News analysis |

The South Korean Board of Audit and Inspection says it tested ten e-liquids labelled as having less than 1% nicotine and found half of them in fact contained more than that ...

Mexico market forecast, 2018-2022

Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th January 2020 || News analysis |

Mexico by far has the largest vaping market in Latin America, as shown here in our comparitive report. This is partly due to its large population, though brand diversity remains narrow. For more insights into Mexico’s e-cigarette market,...

Anti-tobacco campaign blamed for slump in Spanish e-cigarette sector

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd January 2020 || News analysis |

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 ...

Colombia market forecast, 2018-2022

Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st December 2019 || News analysis |

Colombia’s e-cigarette market is relatively mature and well-established when compared to other coutries in the same region. Despite impending regulatory changes, ECigIntelligence predicts steady growth for this market for the next three years. Interested in key indicators and...

Good riddance to 2019 – vaping’s year of living even more dangerously

Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th December 2019 || News analysis |

“The year just gone has been an intense one for the vaping industry – and don’t expect 2019 to be any less so.” So we said a year ago. We didn’t know the half of it ...

New twist in Finnish debate over legality of ‘baking’ flavours

Written by ECigIntelligence || 27th December 2019 || News analysis |

A leading Finnish retailer of vaping products is asking customers who buy flavouring liquids to sign a form stating that they are not buying them for use with e-cigarettes ...

Vaping-related lung illness outbreak and its impact: the story so far

Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th December 2019 || News analysis |

The root of the US lung illness outbreak is now believed to lie in vaping of cannabis oils, but the damage to e-cigs’ reputation goes on – as do efforts to restrict vaping, especially flavoured products. Here is...

New York State renews emergency flavour ban it can’t legally enforce

Written by ECigIntelligence || 24th December 2019 || News analysis |

New York State health officials have voted to renew governor Andrew Cuomo’s temporary ban on flavoured e-cigarette products for another 90 days – but the law won’t allow them to enforce it ...

FDA and DEA shut down 44 websites selling illicit THC vaping products

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd December 2019 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have seized 44 websites they said were selling illicit vapour cartridges containing THC ...

Podcast: e-cigarette sector year overview and predictions 2020

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd December 2019 || News analysis , Podcasts |

Our host for today’s podcast is Tim Phillips, the founder and managing director of ECigIntelligence, who presents a year overview and analysis of the regulatory path in the e-cigarette sector ...

Canada puts forward new advertising and packaging restrictions

Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st December 2019 || News analysis |

The Canadian government has announced plans to tighten the rules governing e-cigarettes and vaping products in a bid to curb the growth of youth vaping ...

French MP proposes bill to further regulate nicotine-free e-liquids

Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th December 2019 || News analysis |

A French MP has presented a new bill to establish the same rules for nicotine and nicotine-free e-liquids, aiming to create tools to promote vaping as a cessation tool for smokers ...

Calls for new regulation after ‘vape-related’ death of Belgian teenager

Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th December 2019 || News analysis |

Regulation in Belgium and possibly across Europe may change as a result of the link being made between vaping and a teenager’s death – though that link has not been verified ...

Regulations on the horizon as Ukraine debates new tax on heated tobacco

Written by ECigIntelligence || 18th December 2019 || Regulatory reports , Topic regulatory reports |

Ukraine could be the next country to introduce an excise tax burden on vaping products, although as it stands excise tax will apply only to heated tobacco from January 2020 ...

How Swedish Match snus finally got its FDA modified risk approval

Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th December 2019 || Regulatory reports , Topic regulatory reports |

How did Swedish Match USA manage to get eight General snus products approved by the US FDA as modified risk tobacco products after being previously unsuccessful? ...

Heated exchanges as Texas senators call for more restrictions on vaping

Written by ECigIntelligence || 17th December 2019 || News analysis |

Lawmakers in Texas are proposing further restrictions on e-cigarettes despite a recently implemented a statewide policy restricting vaping to those aged 21 and above ...

US-style lung outbreak ‘couldn’t happen here,’ says French academy

Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th December 2019 || News analysis |

The French National Academy of Medicine (Académie nationale de médecine, ANM) says an outbreak of vaping-related lung illness like that in the US could not happen in France ...

National e-cig regulation still absent: Taiwan regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th December 2019 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

There is still no effective national e-cigarette legislation in force in Taiwan, with draft amendment of the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act still pending for review ...

Latin America market sizes

Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th December 2019 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

Although e-cigarette commercialization is illegal in Mexico, it has the largest vaping market in South America. For more insights on the e-cigarette markets in 7 South American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Costa Rica, see our...

German coalition conservatives agree outdoor ad ban

Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th December 2019 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

The German conservative parties have come out in support of a comprehensive ban on outdoor advertising for tobacco products – including vaping and heated tobacco products ...

Toronto city health board calls for flavour ban and sales restrictions

Written by ECigIntelligence || 12th December 2019 || News analysis |

Tough new rules on vaping could be coming to Canada’s largest city after the Toronto Board of Health voted to recommend new sales and advertising restrictions and taxes on e-cig products ...

Swiss Tobacco Prevention Fund should aid vaping, harm reduction groups say

Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th December 2019 || News analysis |

Switzerland’s Tobacco Prevention Fund should finance e-cigarette initiatives, harm reduction organisations have told the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health ...

Regional distribution of the top three chains in UK

Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th December 2019 || News analysis |

ECigIntelligence has mapped the locations of the biggest vape store chains in the UK. The analysis has revealed that each of these chains tend to concentrate in specific regions as shown on the map. Click here to read the...

UK vaping brands look to fuel stations as new retail opportunities

Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th December 2019 || Marketing & retailing , News analysis |

Independent vaping brands in the UK are looking at the retail opportunity of opening a shop-within-a-shop at fuel stations, in a bid to increase visibility and reach more customers ...

New tax rate for e-cigs and heated tobacco products: Kazakhstan regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence || 9th December 2019 || Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

This report provides an overview of Kazakhstan's regulatory framework. Although the country has not yet implemented regulation for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco, controls are expected in the near future ...

ECigIntelligence international regulatory live alerts service

Written by ECigIntelligence || 5th December 2019 || News analysis |

ECigIntelligence is launching a new International Alerts round-up for Platinum + and Platinum Pro subscribers to enable them to stay on track with regulatory developments in international markets ...

IQOS more familiar in Canada than US

Written by ECigIntelligence || 4th December 2019 || News analysis |

The ECigIntelligence consumer survey has highlighted that there is a significantly higher percentage of Canadians that have tried iQOS compared to US respondents. This is probably because IQOS was not launched in the US at the time of...

Snapshot: Malaysia, December 2019

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd December 2019 || Market reports , Market Snapshots |

This ECigIntelligence market snapshot for Malaysia covers key indicators such as recent, present and predicted market size, an indication of regulation level and an overview of the top available brands ...

New York State pushes for e-cigarette cessation support services

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd December 2019 || News analysis |

The New York State health commissioner continues to change policy on vaping, with the state Department of Health planning to offer e-cigarette users specialised cessation support programmes ...

Dutch market has 20,000 e-liquids; officials call for neutral flavours only

Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd December 2019 || News analysis |

A recent study by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment has revealed that the Netherlands has an enormous amount of e-liquids and flavours to choose from, prompting futher calls for restrictions ...

IQOS growth slows as market matures

Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd December 2019 || News analysis |

After the 2014 launch of IQOS in Japan, its market share grew rapidly but now sees a slower growth rate due to a mature heated tobacco market and more competition. To see the in-depth analysis of iQOS, see...

BAT launches new HnB in Korea amid government crackdown

Written by ECigIntelligence || 29th November 2019 || News analysis |

Late November saw British American Tobacco (BAT) launch its “most advanced” heated tobacco product in South Korea – during a critical political period in which the government has taken a harsh stance towards vaping and heat-not-burn (HnB)...