Regulation and Legislation

Two surveys suggest flavour bans are the biggest potential changer of current vaper behaviour but that their implementation would not necessarily drive current vapers back to smoking ...

Synthetic nicotine analogues appeared on the US market in vaping and oral products, marketed as exempt from the FDA’s PMTA requirements. This report examines nicotine analogues and their regulation at both the federal and state...

Join host Barnaby Page as he speaks with in-house market analyst Mercedes Gorgni about current and possible future trends in the vape product design market ...

This report provides detailed analysis of the current regulatory framework in place in Sweden for e-cigarettes, covering all policy areas from taxation and advertising to product restrictions and market access ...

New US surgeon general nominee Casey Means has not publicly laid out any position on vaping, nicotine or smoking cessation, but some of her public comments suggest she may be amenable to reduced-harm products ...

In part one of a two-part series, we examine how close leading players are to their goals of becoming smoke-free almost ten years after the first tobacco company committed to swapping cigarettes for alternative products...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) process for quantifying the risk of under-age use of next-generation products (NGPs) could be fuelling the illicit market because so many NGPs are being refused authorisation ...

All flavours should be banned for nicotine products, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which also wants increased regulation of advertising, limits on hardware design, and plain packaging requirements being implemented across the board...

Vaping companies could be held responsible for ads that appear on third-party sites without their knowledge, according to the latest vaping-related rulings from the UK Advertising Standards Authority ...

Goods imported from China to the US will see a 115% reduction in tariffs as of 14th May, but the abrupt, temporary change offers no real certainty for long-term business planning ...

This timeline of tariffs will be updated as further changes are made to the US tariff policy on Chinese imports or as new documents are added to the US Federal Register ...

Two decades after the adoption of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, public health expert Derek Yach asks: ”Surely we could have done better by now?” ...

Discover the Tamarind Intelligence policy radar, providing detailed analyses and comparisons of the current regulatory frameworks and five-year forecasts for a broad selection of leading vapour and novel tobacco markets globally ...

A bill that would reset the country’s stance on vaping products, the import and merchandising of which have been prohibited since a 2009 ban, will likely be voted on in committee in the Brazilian Senate...

The Tax Foundation has published a series of potential reforms it believes the US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products could realistically implement to address the country’s vaping industry ...