All e-liquid flavours other than tobacco will be banned in China from 1st May, according to the country’s Tobacco Monopoly Administration, which has confirmed administrative measures for e-cigarettes proposed in December ...

Synthetic nicotine vaping products will likely require the same authorisations as those made with tobacco-derived nicotine – leading to a massive shake-up of the US vaping market – after Congress passed its omnibus spending bill...

The Local Government Association (LGA) has urged the UK government to cut value-added tax (VAT) on vaping products as part of a plan to help smokers quit ...

Multiple letters from lobbying associations have urged US officials to act on vaping regulation in general and synthetic nicotine in particular ...

Swiss stakeholders have less than a month left to comment on a proposal by the Federal Council to tax electronic cigarettes at a rate that is 77% less than the levy on regular cigarettes – in...

The percentage of teen vapers in New Zealand rose significantly in 2021, accompanied by a decline in smoking rates among 13- and 14-year-olds ...

A delayed bill to restrict the marketing of flavoured e-cigarettes “that may appeal to children” in Iceland will be introduced to the country’s parliament in March ...

The legal challenges faced by the vaping industry in the US impacted Turning Point Brands’ vapour portfolio in 2021, with a significant drop in the last quarter’s net sales and gross profit ...

Tax on vaping products in Italy will return to 2021 levels from 1st April after the Senate passed a bill containing a measure to lower the excise duties on e-liquids ...

The number of authorised prescribers for nicotine vaping products in Australia has skyrocketed since regulations changed. However, critics say this has also led to a booming black market ...

The Scottish government has opened a public consultation on the potential tightening of its rules for advertising and promoting vaping products ...

Altria Group says a judge has dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC)’s claim that its investment in Juul Labs violates anti-trust laws ...

Malaysia’s new law to ban tobacco and nicotine sales to those born after 2005 will include vaping products, according to industry sources – some of whom back the plan ...

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 ... ...

The US Senate has confirmed Robert Califf to be the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on a tight vote ...

Flavours for other tobacco products will almost certainly become the major topic once a US ban on menthol cigarettes and flavoured cigars goes through ...

Changes to Norway’s Tobacco Act should allow the sale of nicotine-containing e-liquids and devices but strict permit rules could effectively prohibit the 70 or so domestic retailers from taking advantage ...

A Lithuanian lawmaker has criticised the country’s parliament for voting to enact a wide-ranging flavour ban rather than a more targeted, nuanced alternative ...

Vuse and vapour were the primary driver of a 42.4% year-on-year increase in British American Tobacco (BAT)’s new category portfolio revenue, according to the company’s latest results ...

Philip Morris International (PMI) has commited to continuing to support the sales and promotion of its Veev vaping product, with future expansion into more markets around the world ...

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 ...

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of local authorities in England offering e-cigarettes to smokers in a bid to help them quit smoking, according to a new survey ...

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 ...

Israel’s parliamentary finance committee has finally and retroactively approved the duty rates on vaping products in its first ever e-cigarette tax, that was initially passed in November ...

France’s High Council for Public Health has revised its 2016 opinion on e-cigarettes, now saying there is not sufficient evidence to recommend vaping for smoking cessation ...

Andy Hooper, CEO of Global E-Commerce Experts, provides tips for companies wishing to export into Europe. He'll expand on this in a talk at White Label World Expo in London on 2nd and 3rd March...

US tobacco giant Altria has announced that it will not invest any further in the vapour category for the foreseeable future ...

The majority of people in Taiwan support proposals that will likely strengthen bans on vaping but continue to allow heated tobacco products in the country ...

Consumers will continue to increasingly spread usage out over different alternative nicotine products, partly driven by further, stricter vaping regulation across the globe throughout 2022, ECigIntelligence predicts ...

Medical societies in Spain have confirmed their strong stance against e-cigarettes as the government consults on potential restrictions and taxes on vapour products ...

We look back at predictions ECigIntelligence published at the start of 2021. Real events and developments confirmed ECigIntelligence’s analysis in many cases, though Covid delayed things ...

Leaders of Canada’s vaping industry are preparing to challenge a federal government proposal to restrict flavoured e-cigarette products which they fear would devastate the industry in the country ...

Lawmakers in Colorado will soon be considering a new bill that would ban the sale of all flavoured tobacco products. The aim of the new law would be to curb the consumption of e-cigarettes by youth ...

INNCO urged policymakers to conduct health impact studies involving consumers and producers if flavour bans are being debated ...

Califf’s bid to be the first permanent FDA leader under president Joe Biden comes amid ongoing calls by politicians for more regulation of tobacco and the cigarette industry ...

A new paper successfully replicates three key studies comparing the toxicity of cigarette smoke and e-cigarette vapour on lung tissues ...

Vaping products have continued to take a share of the worldwide retail market away from smokable tobacco over the past three years, with sales of combustible cigarettes declining by 5% – but the rate of...

Tax on vaping products in Italy went up at the start of the year after the Chamber of Deputies passed the 2022 Budget on 30th December ...

The Welsh government has launched a public consultation over its long-term tobacco control strategy ...

Could 2021 be remembered as the year we first started to see some light at the end of the tunnel? Only time will tell for sure, but there were clues ...

A study has warned about “significant exposure” of Generation Z teens to videos glamorising vaping on social media platform TikTok and called for “effective age restrictions” to avoid it ...

A new study has concluded that although flavours are an “important motivator” for e-cigarette uptake among young people, there is no evidence to associate them with a move to smoking tobacco ...

Brazil seems close to clarifying a future legal path for tobacco alternatives in a regulatory process expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2022 ...

A new blanket ban in Taiwan’s capital on the sale and import of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products is heavy-handed and nonsensical, a public health expert at the city's medical university says ...

The Spanish government is working on a regulation to impose further restrictions on e-cigarettes and place an excise duty on them to come into force by 2023 ...

The Lega party, part of the ruling coalition in Italy, has tabled an amendment to the Budget Bill 2022 aiming to increase the e-liquid excise duty each year until 2023 but with lower rates than...

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 ...

New Zealand’s government has released a new plan setting out a series of policies to reach its “bold” ambition of lowering the smoking rate to 5%, including making traditional tobacco “less available” than vaping products...

The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer gave the green light on 9th December to a cancer report that urges the Commission to assess a ban on selected flavours in upcoming regulations ...

The British public health sector has broadly welcomed the updated guidance from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence...