The final recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) on e-cigarettes allow for a wide range of regulatory regimes but single out advertising as a prime candidate for controls, as expected, as well as hinting...
Regulation and Legislation
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This week’s World Health Organization (WHO) conference on tobacco control looks likely to recommend that nations ban e-cigarette... -
Heavy-handed regulations for e-cigarettes • The DSHEA: a much lighter touch • Industry-friendly provisions for dietary supplements • Resisting tighter regulation for dietary... -
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... -
Britain’s advertising standards-setters today published their new guidelines for e-cigarette ads, welcomed by the industry, imposing no unexpected restrictions, and allowing e-cigs to be shown in TV commercials for the first... -
A British e-cigarette maker has won the right to challenge the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) at the EU’s main... -
Contents: Market size • Form factors • Individual usage • Retail channel • Major Spanish retailers • Recent upheavals • Regulation • Introduction • Regulatory landscape: from regional to uniform regulation • Current regulatory framework... -
Paris and Las Vegas: ECigIntelligence director, Tim Phillips recently chaired the E-cig Vegas: Industry Conference discussion panels where experts debated the current business climate in the sector, the upcoming Food and... -
Current legal and regulatory framework • Legislation under consideration • Case law on medical/pharmaceutical status of e-cigs • Case law on e-cigs as tobacco products • Import restrictions • Public use and advertising restrictions •... -
France’s health minister yesterday presented her long-awaited proposals on smoking and vaping to the cabinet, going easier on e-cigs than on tobacco but still introducing a public place ban and advertising... -
A comprehensive survey of the U.S. e-cigarette market and regulation, including: Market size • Consumption patterns • Online pricing • Distribution • Raw material supply • E-cigarette usage surveys • Current U.S. e-cigarette regulation •... -
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been asked to recommend e-cigarette bans in American... -
Regulatory landscape: from regional to uniform regulation • Current regulatory framework • Comparison with tobacco regulation • Public use restrictions • Age restrictions • Packaging and point-of-sale requirements • Advertising restrictions • Medical claims •... -
The proposed regulations • FDA e-cigarette information requests • Analysis of SFATA submission • SFATA’s proposed alternative • Analysis of AEMSA submission and proposals • Analysis of Totally Wicked submission and proposals •... -
The U.S. state of Missouri is to legally distinguish between e-cigarettes and tobacco products, following disagreement among law-makers which saw legislation passed, then vetoed, and finally... -
Britain’s medicines regulator has issued a product licence for the nicotine inhaler Voke, which will be sold by British American Tobacco’s subsidiary Nicoventures and looks likely to be the closest pharmaceutically-approved competitor to the... -
What the FCTC is • A global treaty • Broad scope of regulation • The regulatory framework • The FCTC in practice • No enforcement powers • Enforcement by signatories • Self-reporting • Shadow reporting... -
Queensland is set to become the first state in Australia subjecting e-cigarettes to the same laws as conventional tobacco... -
Thailand’s government is planning to clamp down harder on the import of e-cigarettes, seeking to close potential loopholes in the products’ confusing legal... -
WHO’s basis for regulation • Political will to regulate • Regulatory proposals in detail • Likely impact of COP6 recommendations • Industry excluded from consultation? • Russia’s political situation and COP6 •... -
France: influence on regulation and case law • France: influence on standards adoption • French and European associations’ influence on the TPD • UK: ECITA and the BSI e-cigarette standards • UK: developing manufacturing standards... -
Consumer protection authorities in Utah are threatening online e-cig sellers with nearly $1m in fines over misleading claims and unauthorised credit card... -
The law governing adoption of the TPD • Significant new rules for tobacco and e-cigs • Challenges before transposition • Pre-transposition challenges by member states • Poland’s TPD challenge • Pre-transposition challenges before the UK... -
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... -
Medical professionals should support but not promote the use of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation attempts, says the American Heart Association (AHA) in a new policy statement on the... -
A British e-cigarette supplier is the sector’s first independent to launch a legal challenge against the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), the EU rules published this year that will regulate the e-cig market in European member... -
Prison inmates in North Carolina are to be allowed e-cigarettes, following an unusual law-making decision which implicitly gives official recognition to the products as substitutes for tobacco... -
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is likely to have received a deluge of comments in the run-up to the closing of the public consultation period on its e-cigarette regulations last Friday – among... -
Italy’s Council of Ministers has approved a controversially high new tax on e-cigarettes, which would add an estimated 600% to the price of... -
E-cigs are not tobacco products • E-cigs are relatively unregulated • Standard consumer protection law applies • No product standards or requirements • Public use restrictions in significant cities • Limits on local government power... -
GMPs defined • Core principles: control and documentation • Enforcement • Evolution of GMPs: “current GMPs” and international harmonisation • The application of GMPs to tobacco and e-cigarettes • Industry groups and NGOs fill the... -
A new review of medical and public health research on e-cigarettes concludes that tobacco-style regulation is unjustifiably strict, but also suggests that further research is needed on health effects and the relationship of e-cigs to... -
Could handling e-liquid really be as safe as doing the dishes? European regulations on classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) have been wrongly categorising nicotine as extremely toxic when it should be considered the equivalent of washing-up... -
While U.S. federal regulation of e-cigarettes creeps through a lengthy consultation and review stage, individual states and lower levels of government are trying to fill the legal... -
The director of public health for Canada’s second-largest city has called for national regulation specifically covering e-cigarettes, which would clarify the country’s confusing mixture of proclaimed prohibition and actual... -
An influential member of the U.S. Congress has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to mandate child-proofing for e-liquid containers, as the wrangling over whether e-cigarettes pose a threat to young people rumbles... -
A Swedish court has upheld attempts by the country’s medical products regulator to treat nicotine-containing e-cigarettes as pharmaceuticals, meaning that they must go through a licensing process and cannot be sold in outlets such as... -
Current regulatory framework • The “tabac” monopoly • Recent regulatory initiatives • Implementation of article 20 of the... -
There is concern in the e-cigarette industry over the sale of the Blu e-cigarette brand to Imperial Tobacco as part of the merger of tobacco giants Lorillard and... -
Divisions among British pharmacists over whether to sell e-cigarettes, and who to, have been further highlighted this week by a survey showing that a substantial minority would support making the products available to... -
Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Maryland has elected to stop hiring nicotine users from 1 July,... -
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... -
What the WHO FCTC is • The WHO FCTC in practice • What does the WHO FCTC mean for...
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Big Tobacco scaling up in UK and U.S. • Different blends of acquisition and development • Cigalike most popular form factor…for... -
The multi-layered, multi-jurisdictional regulatory landscape • The structure of federal and state e-cig regulation • Trends in state government regulation • Trends in local government regulation • Case study: regulation of e-cigarettes in California •... -
Campaigners have accused two New York state senators of failing to see the wood for the trees after they introduced a bill that could prevent businesses from selling, offering to sell or giving away e-liquids.... -
E-cigarette regulation: lessons from another industry • Regulatory issues compared • Online gambling regulatory models • Lessons for the e-cigarette... -
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... -
Edits made to e-cigarette proposal documents could significantly weaken the Food and Drug Administration's final... -
Market intelligence • Market structure • Regulatory...
