Not enough countries collect data on e-cigarette usage and it's necessary to improve this to better monitor reduction in tobacco use, says the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

A ban on menthol-flavoured cigarettes should be good news for companies involved in non-combustibles, but likely delays from tobacco company legal challenges make its potential timeline uncertain ...

For the first time ever, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) for a standalone piece of vaping hardware that contains no e-liquid ...

Perception is often at least as important as reality in forming policy-makers’ and the public’s opinion where novel nicotine products are concerned, but there’s a persistent problem with terminology ...

In light of the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, Italy has launched a pilot recycling programme, which is currently operational only in Rome and Milan, but plans are to eventually involve more than 60,000 points-of-sale...

The Italian parliament passed a bill extending excise tax rates on nicotine-free e-liquids to these ingredients, which will also bring them under the spectrum of the state monopoly, like other traditional and novel tobacco products...

A federal court has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reconsider its marketing denial order (MDO) for flavoured e-liquids produced by e-cigarette companies Triton and Vapetasia ...

Canada’s vaping industry says it will fight the federal government’s plan to transfer the cost of Health Canada’s enforcement programme to manufacturers, saying it will make it difficult for many businesses to survive ...

The vaping industry could look at increased efforts to crack down on disposable e-cigarettes as its own failure to provide more viable solutions that could have curtailed countries around the globe taking legal actions ...

E-cig and vape associations in Argentina, Mexico, Panama and other Latin American nations are hopeful that 2024 will bring eased restrictions and the lifting of bans that have complicated sales and consumption of tobacco alternatives...

Further regulatory restrictions on e-cigarettes are expected, but these will not prevent the global vaping market from continuing to grow in 2024, ECigIntelligence predicts ...

“Disposables” was the word in vaping in 2023: although they had been building steam prior to this year, it was 2023 that saw multiple elements reach a crescendo ...

Smoore, a Chinese vaping technology company, has said it will not work with brands that use flavour names, packaging or product designs that could be construed as attractive to children ...

In shipments from China arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, the joint operation found various brands of disposable e-cig products intended for distribution on the US market that did not have authorisation to be sold...

The Biden administration will take more time to review the US FDA’s proposed rule to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes, which is to be delayed until at least 2024, raising concerns among public health groups...

Haypp Group, an online retailer of reduced-risk products, will look to expand into new categories and European markets following the success of a vaping pilot in the UK ...

A new bill to ban disposable e-cigarettes is now awaiting a vote by France’s Senate. If it succeeds there, it would likely enter into force sometime next year as part of a newly launched anti-tobacco...

The Canadian government has tabled legislation for a tobacco cost-recovery system in a bid to recoup the money it spends each year on tobacco and vape...

The UK government could consider a tax increase on vaping in plans likely to be released by the second quarter of 2024, according to insiders ...

As the revision process of the EU tobacco policy framework keeps being delayed, commissioners are still not able to come up with a timeline, or even a date for the submission of the new texts...

Rising costs – not increased domestic regulation – are the main reason for Chinese e-cig manufacturers to set up factories internationally. Surveys indicate three main reasons why companies are moving factories out of China ...

Spain’s newly formed government, led for the second time by socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez, may not be good news for the vaping sector ...

The recent election of president Javier Milei in Argentina is considered encouraging for the South American country’s e-cigarette and heated tobacco market, industry leaders told ECigIntelligence ...

New Zealand’s radical smoke-free plans look likely to fall victim to savings designed to fund tax cuts by the new government, who are looking to repeal amendments to the Smokefree Environments Act ...

The Slovenian government could use a shortened procedure to push through a draft bill that would limit the number of ingredients legally allowed in e-liquids to just 16 compounds ...

A lack of information on how to recycle vaping products has led to a marketing campaign by Elf Bar running afoul of the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority following accusations of greenwashing ...

UK consumer goods company Supreme scored record-high revenues in the six months ending 30th September, partly due to growth in the vaping area of its business, the company said ...

A new Danish government plan to curb the consumption of tobacco and nicotine among young people is facing criticism from international vaping advocates ...

Another week, another round of vaping-related posts on TikTok being criticised by the UK Advertising Standards Authority, this time around, against posts by an e-cig company and an influencer ...

Vaping products will no longer be considered pharmaceutical products in Chile, following the passage of bill 12626-11 – with outlining regulations expected to be issued by May 2024 ...

Malaysia will press forward with its tobacco control plans in the hopes of providing a leadership role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ahead of what is hoped to be a rescheduled COP10...

The regulation of new and emerging e-cigarette, heated tobacco and nicotine products will be one of the central topics of discussion at the COP10-MOP3 conferences next year, said the head of the WHO FCTC ...

Over 50% of French vapers would buy e-cigarettes from the black market or abroad, while 25% would consider resuming smoking if a flavour ban is implemented ...

Imperial Brands reported a performance in line with its five-year-plan expectations in the year ended 30th September 2023, with new product and market launches boosting its next-generation product (NGP) revenue ...

Reported vaping use fell over 4% among high school students from 2022 to 2023, according to the recently released annual National Youth Tobacco Survey ...

E-cigarettes are increasingly popular in Switzerland according to the country’s latest healthcare survey, which shows 3% of the population used them in 2022 ...

Two more companies have ignored queries from the UK ASA on the appropriateness of nicotine-containing e-cigarette ads on social media platform TikTok ...

There would be no increase in Italian e-cigarette excise duties next year under the new 2024 Budget Bill, but rates would rise significantly for 2025 and 2026 ...

The world’s major international tobacco control conferences will not take place in Panama this month as anticipated and will be delayed until 2024 ...

King Charles said in the king’s speech that the UK parliament will try to push through its plan to prevent those born on or after 1st January 2009 from buying cigarettes ...

The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) has severed its connection with tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI) and will soon change its name, its new CEO Cliff Douglas has announced ...

Canada’s health minister says he is deeply concerned by the rise in youth vaping and is actively working on plans to restrict flavoured vaping products ...

A new batch of rulings from the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) gives a glimpse into how auto-moderation at TikTok is meant to work ...

Altria will look to strengthen the logistics behind its recent $2.75bn acquisition of the Njoy e-cigarette brand as it sets out to build on revenues from alternatives to conventional cigarettes ...

A coalition of centre-right, liberal, and left-wing forces is the most likely to form a new government in Poland before the end of the year, following elections held on 15th October ...

Njoy is taking market regulation into its own hands through a US federal lawsuit that accuses 34 manufacturers of illegally selling disposable flavoured vaping devices in California and under federal law ...

With disposable e-cigarettes increasingly the target of negative attention over their environmental impact as well as youth usage, interest is growing in other, less wasteful, approaches to product design ...

While the British government may hope that a ban on disposable e-cigarettes would cut down both waste and youth vaping, others have warned that it could have negative consequences too ...

UK vape maker Supreme has outlined measures to mitigate increased interest from under-age consumers in its 88Vape brand and reduce the environmental impact of disposables ...

German politicians are at odds over whether – and how – to tackle taxation of e-cigarettes. Since the so-called “traffic light coalition” came to power, there have been calls to amend the current tax regulations...