Author: Barnaby Page

Heated tobacco in Japan and nicotine pouches in the US were among the success stories highlighted by Philip Morris International (PMI) in announcing its latest financial results…

Join host Barnaby Page as he speaks with Richard Young about the role of toxicology in vape product safety…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Global elections: bad news for tobacco harm reduction? Supporters of vaping, nicotine pouches and heated tobacco had hoped for a “Trump effect” in cutting regulation Recent elections around the world have mostly been a disappointment for advocates of e-cigarettes and other less harmful forms of nicotine, according to a new analysis from […]…

Frustrations with flavour restrictions and the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) were two of the strongest themes emerging from last week’s Global Forum on Nicotine…

Join host Barnaby Page as he speaks with Christopher Russell about the trends surrounding flavours, including proposed bans in Europe….

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…

Join host Barnaby Page as he speaks with Jake Nixon, organiser of the World Vape Show and several other global nicotine events, as they discuss how the landscape of nicotine-related events has evolved in recent years…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE US nicotine pouch users are turning away from smoking 8.5 million Americans expected to use pouches this year Nicotine pouch users in the United States are increasingly abandoning smoking, and making the safer pouches their sole source of nicotine, according to new research from TobaccoIntelligence. A survey of nearly 500 regular users […]…

Podcast host Barnaby Page is joined by Michael Landl from the World Vapers’ Alliance to discuss the future of e-cigarette regulations and the critical challenges the industry will face in 2025 and beyond…

Join our podcast host, Barnaby Page, as he talks with Tamarind Intelligence regulatory director, Pablo Cano Trilla, about the latest worldwide developments in novel nicotine regulation…

New research “fails to show that youth vaping causes future smoking”, announces the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Should harm-reduction advocates reach for the champagne?…

A new study sheds some welcome and thought-provoking light on US CDC data, which ought to help to forestall undue panic about the arrival of nicotine pouches and heated tobacco…

Talking about the future of the novel nicotine sector in the United States – its biggest single market by a long way – just got a whole lot harder…

Join Tamarind Intelligence founder Tim Phillips and Editorial Director Barnaby Page as they examine the illicit e-cigarette market….

The TobaccoIntelligence monthly regulatory podcast provides insight and analysis on the major regulatory developments of the previous month affecting the sector…

As the new UK prime minister settles in, attempts are already being made to push novel nicotine regulation to the top of his agenda, and similar attempts are being made by lobbyists in every sector…

In this part of a series of articles celebrating the tenth anniversary of Tamarind Intelligence, our editorial director shares ten things he’s learned about the sector in the last ten years…

The Global Forum on Nicotine was in Warsaw again last week, and once again proved to be one of the most thought-provoking events on the tobacco harm reduction calendar…

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…

The UK government is considering a generational ban for most tobacco products — but not e-cigarettes — as well as restrictions on disposable vapes and flavours, according to proposals issued this week…

The vast volumes of waste and litter attributable to vaping have become a major issue in recent months, and even if some of the media coverage seems biased, the underlying problem is real enough…

There are several reasons to be cautiously negative about the direction regulation of novel nicotine products will follow, globally – but does that make up a fair picture?…

What’s in a name? Where the novel nicotine products sector is concerned, what’s more significant may be what’s not in the names of its categories – specifically, the word “nicotine”…

Canada’s decision to require health warnings on individual cigarettes was described by Carolyn Bennett, minister for mental health and addictions, as a “bold action”. But it may also be an act of slight desperation…

India is far from unique in the high level of misperception about nicotine among its doctors and its politicians. But sometimes the famously fussy bureaucracy can become positively farcical…

Vapour is currently the area of tobacco harm reduction where the biggest fears are focused. But that is not because it is uniquely relevant to them, in any rational sense…

The World Health Organization (WHO) insists on keeping the tobacco industry and tobacco regulators as far apart as possible, for sound historical reasons. But is it time this policy was reconsidered?…

Health minister Mark Butler wasn’t mincing his words. “Australia needs to reclaim its position as a world leader on tobacco control,” he said as he announced another planned crackdown on e-cigarettes…

Tobacco control’s catchiest acronym is back later this year, with the next WHO FCTC COP (World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties) due to be held in Panama in November…

Heated tobacco has never attracted the same level of scientific attention as vaping – but the encouraging results of a new study may change that…

What the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s proposed new rule on manufacturing practices for tobacco products really means is an intriguing question. What can it tell us about the agency’s vision for future regulation?…

So much attention is given to the edicts of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it’s easy to forget individual states – not to mention cities – can also have a big impact on the regulation of novel nicotine products…

Flavours continue to be the main target of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US when it comes to novel nicotine products, it seems – and that could give heated tobacco an edge over e-cigarettes…

There remains a worryingly large amount of research on novel nicotine products which makes casual, almost always negative, assumptions…and the occasional item so faulty it should never have been published at all…

New Zealand’s ban on cigarette sales to people born after 1st January 2009 may look like a dry run for complete prohibition. But there’s a crucial difference…

The US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (FDA CTP) is “reactive and overwhelmed”, staff are “fatigued”, the industry and public health advocates are “frustrated”, and litigation has “upended” the CTP’s plans…

Many companies, some countries, and of course consumers in their millions are making headway in replacing combustible tobacco with safer alternatives…but what’s holding back the others?…

There’s been plenty of speculation about PMI’s plans for its new business – but if I were an evil tobacco mastermind trying to prevent uptake of less risky products, very publicly buying Swedish Match wouldn’t be top of my list…

Heated tobacco has played a big part in eliminating smoking in Japan, not just nibbling away at the edges of smoking prevalence but severely reducing the presence of the combustible cigarette…

As novel nicotine products grow in popularity, it’s only a matter of time before false links are drawn between them and the use of some other substance, be it cannabis or combustible tobacco or saturated fats…

It’s fascinating to speculate on how the pouch market will develop. Who will use them, and why, and what will they replace?…

Swedish Match was the clear winner in this year’s Tobacco Transformation Index, which ranks major tobacco companies on their shift toward reduced-risk products…

Is there any connection between people’s knowledge of reduced-risk products and their attitudes toward them? Our third survey of European Parliament members’ views will show how any such connection may have altered…

After the victory of right-wing parties in Sweden’s very close election this week, the country’s tobacco alternatives sector – and its customers – may well be breathing a sigh of relief…

Another day, another judgement in the saga of the US vapour industry’s cases against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – but what might the conflicting decisions mean for other smoking alternatives?…

Scientific research into novel nicotine alternatives has so far largely focused on vaping, but that is likely to change as the products become more widespread…

You can almost hear the judge’s sigh as he wrote his latest opinion in the long-running litigation between the FDA and the cigar industry over the latter’s treatment by the 2016 final deeming rule. Here we go again……

Could the Khan report, which endorses the UK’s positive attitude towards e-cigs also have lessons for the rest of the world, even for countries where there is far more hostility toward novel tobacco products?…

Some headlines notwithstanding, it doesn’t sound like Joe Biden actually sat in the Oval Office and signed off mandatory nicotine reduction while photographers recorded the historic moment…

Rumours circulating this week that the Biden administration is about to put its weight behind mandatory nicotine reduction in combustibles will have been music to the ears of 22nd Century Group, if few others…