The European Commission has officially adopted a proposal for a recast of the Tobacco Excise Directive, expanding the scope of the directive to include e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products (HTPs) and nicotine pouches ...

New excise duties for e-cigarettes and disposables hit Poland's market on 1st July, following new rules that came into force on 1st April. This could significantly squeeze legal operators, especially smaller businesses ...

Marketed as an alternative to traditional nicotine, 6-methyl nicotine is drawing growing concern from public health authorities in countries across the European Union ...

As part of its efforts to cut alternative tobacco product sales in Poland, the country’s Ministry of Health is advancing plans to ban nicotine-containing and nicotine-free single-use vapes ...

The year 2025 is shaping up to be a significant one for vaping. ECigIntelligence predicts several long-anticipated policy developments will start to emerge as regulators attempt to catch up to the rapidly evolving vaping market...

Peru has taken a bold step in public health regulation with new legislation aimed at curbing the impact of tobacco and nicotine products as Congress approves strict guidelines for their use ...

Canada-based vaping hardware maker Greentank has launched a partnership with Dubai-headquartered group AIR Global, as the shisha market specialist aims to enter the global wellness sector ...

The European Commission (EC) is moving forward with a groundbreaking proposal to expand smoking restrictions, targeting e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products alongside traditional smoking ...

Nicotine-free vaping products are not subject to the same regulation as those that contain nicotine, but scientists are not sure that they don’t expose users, especially young ones, to potentially serious health threats ...

The Spanish government has opened a public consultation on a soon-to-be drafted tobacco law bill, which would introduce new measures to regulate the consumption, sale, supply and advertising of tobacco products ...

Reynolds American has launched a new nicotine-free disposable vape that currently doesn’t need to obtain authorisation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be marketed in the US ...

The Polish government has released the details of its planned legislation to curb e-cigarette consumption among under-age people by regulating nicotine-free e-liquids. The draft act amending the Act on the Restriction of the Use of Tobacco...

The tobacco industry, public health groups, and the World Health Organization have all recently drawn attention to nicotine analogues – what are these compounds and why the attention? ...

A decision on the regulation of vaping and heated tobacco products in Brazil to be made tomorrow (17th April) could then potentially be overruled by the country’s legislature ...

Slovenia could move to ban disposables and put all vaping products in plain packaging, according to comments from a minor party in the country’s governing coalition....

The Romanian parliament has adopted a bill that will subject nicotine pouches, heated tobacco products (HTPs) and herbal heated products to the same rules as those for vaping and other tobacco products ...

Retailers have criticised Norwegian officials for not going far enough in efforts to legalise e-cigarettes, saying the proposed framework means the country is effectively creating a “dead category” ...

The UK government has published a draft proposal to ban nicotine-containing and nicotine-free disposable vaping products starting from 1st April 2025, though pods will continue to be legal ...

Belgium is to become the first EU member state to ban disposable e-cigarettes, following the European Commission’s approval today, 18th March, of its proposed legislation ...

COP10 was to be the conference where countries finally got to grips with emerging alternative tobacco products, but none of the decisions made applied to ENDS or HTPs or their industries ...

Although the new proposed UK vaping tax may achieve its aim of making vaping products unaffordable for some, there are concerns that it will also impact on their ability to work as smoking-cessation tools ...

UK Trading Standards officials welcomed new measures to increase funding and allow for higher on-the-spot fines to be issued for illicit vape sales, but industry members say efforts could fail without laws behind them ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although young adults in the US are more likely to vape or use cannabis than to smoke cigarettes, many Americans still perceive vaping as dangerous, and support stronger regulation ...

European authorities will likely look to impose a tax on nicotine-free e-liquids in the upcoming revision of the EU Tobacco Excise Directive (TED) ...