PMI has denied allegations that it orchestrated a campaign to submit pro-vaping testimonies to a government consultation on e-cigarette regulation in Australia ...

New Zealand is to introduce an amendment to existing laws that will enable the legal introduction of alternative tobacco products such as snus and heat-not-burn devices ...

Major Australian public health organisations have submitted evidence to a government inquiry on e-cigarettes, with many taking a negative stance ...

New Zealand looks set to amend the law to allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold in the country – but not to permit HnB...

Philip Morris International (PMI) has run into legal trouble in New Zealand, where the health ministry has taken the company to court for attempting to sell its iQOS heat-not-burn device in the country....

An Australian Federal Court decision against three e-cigarette retailers has added a note of caution but little clarity to what companies can say or do on their...

The government of New Zealand has confirmed that it plans to legalise nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, and embed harm reduction concepts into...

Australia will not re-classify nicotine to allow the domestic sale of e-cigarettes, having refused to legalise nicotine-containing e-liquid despite appeals to support vaping for harm...

A New Zealand political party has proposed providing some form of subsidy for e-cigarettes in pursuit of the country's goal of being smoke-free by 2025....

Japan Tobacco and Philip Morris International are attempting to widen their distribution of heat-not-burn (HnB) products throughout Pacific Asia, but there have been problems along the way....

Next year could mark a breakthrough for the Australian e-cigarette market, with a decision due on whether or not low-nicotine e-cigarettes are to be...

Countries that ban vapour products could be breaking world trade agreements by unfairly privileging combustibles at the expense of e-cigarettes, two lawyers have...

Nearly a third of Russian high-school students have tried vaping, according to new...

The effects of nicotine remain a major focus for scientific researchers investigating e-cigarettes, as three new studies...

A proposal has been submitted to Australian health authorities that would change the legal status of nicotine containing e-liquids if approved....

A new study of former smokers found that they are reminded of smoking and have some desire to use an e-cig after viewing e-cigarette advertising....

The New Zealand government wants opinions on the future of e-cig regulation and taxation....

Two e-cigarette retailers face Australian court proceedings after the country’s consumer watchdog filed charges alleging they had made false and misleading claims about the safety of their...

The attitudes of New Zealand’s policy-makers to e-cigarettes seem to be growing more liberal than those of their counterparts in Australia, with the smaller nation edging toward greater tolerance of vaping while the larger maintains...

Australia’s pharmaceuticals regulator has been ordered to consider an application from Nicovations to register its Voke nicotine inhalator as an over-the-counter...

High pricing of e-cigarettes compared to combustibles could deter smokers from switching to vaping in many jurisdictions, a new study...

Australia’s already stringent rules against e-cigarettes look set to get even tighter in some parts of the country, although there are tentative signs that the national regulatory framework could come under...

Among all the groups that could benefit from e-cigarettes for harm reduction, perhaps none is as contentious as pregnant...

Infographic showing how the level of e-cigarette regulation in different territories appears to have an impact on vaping...

State governments in Australia and the U.S. are moving to stop the use of e-cigarettes in cars where children are...

Singapore is to ban e-liquids as part of a wider move to end the importation, sale and use of alternatives to combustible...

A new proposal to ban the sale of any type of e-cigarette to minors has been met with skepticism in the Australian state of New South Wales....

New Zealand, where strict controls are placed on e-cigarette sales and distribution, has allowed an e-cig radio ad for the first time....

The e-cig industry is driven by rapidly growing consumer demand, splintered by diverse technologies, threatened by regulation, and niggled at by medical doubts. So the team at ECigIntelligence has drafted a SWOT analysis for the...

Regulation is holding the Australasian e-cigarette market far behind other...

E-cigarettes containing nicotine can help people quit and cut down on smoking: that is the digested version of the Cochrane review on the use of e-cigs for smoking cessation and reduction, but the review itself...

E-cig brands and manufacturers should pay more attention to product design, all the way from components to packaging, an industry conference was told this...

An international group of NGOs has tried to identify middle ground between the die-hard opponents and supporters of e-cigarettes in the run-up to next week’s World Health Organization (WHO) meeting on regulating...

Things are changing at Philip Morris International (PMI), with new plans for tackling the reduced risk tobacco products...

Queensland is set to become the first state in Australia subjecting e-cigarettes to the same laws as conventional tobacco...

The World Health Organization (WHO) looks increasingly likely to recommend stringent restrictions on e-cigarettes, following an internal report which suggests measures including a blanket ban on indoor use and tight controls on...

An Australian e-cigarette retailer is attempting to crowd-fund an appeal after a court ruled that the e-cigarettes the company sold resembled conventional cigarettes – violating Australia’s Tobacco Products Control Act of...

Comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its proposed e-cigarette regulations should focus on public health and skip business issues, an industry organisation has...

Vapers are switching away from using e-cigarettes as simulators of tobacco smoking and embracing them as a product category in their own right, according to a new market...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been urged to adopt a gentle touch on regulation of e-cigarettes in a letter this week signed by more than 50 nicotine science and public health specialists, apparently hoping...

The man who leads the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) wants to see e-cigarettes brought into the international agreement, according to a news report...