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…
Author: Barnaby Page
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Tamarind Intelligence podcast: Why toxicology matters for the novel nicotine sector
Written by Barnaby Page | 18th July 2025 | Podcasts
Join host Barnaby Page as he speaks with Richard Young about the role of toxicology in vape product safety…
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Global elections: bad news for tobacco harm reduction?
Written by Barnaby Page | 8th July 2025 | Press releases
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 […]…
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At Global Forum on Nicotine, flavour ban frustrations and FCTC take centre stage
Written by Barnaby Page | 27th June 2025 | News analysis
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…
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Tamarind Intelligence podcast: making sense of the flavoured vape problem
Written by Barnaby Page | 18th June 2025 | Podcasts
Join host Barnaby Page as he speaks with Christopher Russell about the trends surrounding flavours, including proposed bans in Europe….
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Tamarind Intelligence podcast: innovations in vape product design
Written by Barnaby Page | 21st May 2025 | Podcasts
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…
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Tamarind Intelligence podcast: the changing face of nicotine events
Written by Barnaby Page | 16th April 2025 | Podcasts
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…
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US nicotine pouch users are turning away from smoking
Written by Barnaby Page | 14th April 2025 | Press releases
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 […]…
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Tamarind Intelligence podcast: the future of vaping regulations in 2025 and beyond
Written by Barnaby Page | 24th February 2025 | Podcasts
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…
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Tamarind Intelligence podcast: key global updates on novel nicotine regulation
Written by Barnaby Page | 14th February 2025 | Podcasts
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…
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Study that fails to link youth vaping with future smoking brings up research issues
Written by Barnaby Page | 13th February 2025 | Blog , News analysis
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?…
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Study results could keep panic at bay over arrival of HTPs and nic pouches in the US
Written by Barnaby Page | 12th December 2024 | Blog , News analysis
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…
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What to expect for US tobacco and nicotine regulation under Trump
Written by Barnaby Page | 8th November 2024 | News analysis
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…
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Tamarind Intelligence podcast: Inside the illicit vape problem
Written by Barnaby Page | 16th October 2024 | Podcasts
Join Tamarind Intelligence founder Tim Phillips and Editorial Director Barnaby Page as they examine the illicit e-cigarette market….
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Monthly regulatory podcast: October
Written by Barnaby Page | 10th October 2024 | Regulatory alerts podcasts
The TobaccoIntelligence monthly regulatory podcast provides insight and analysis on the major regulatory developments of the previous month affecting the sector…
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New UK government could favour harm reduction but also a generational ban
Written by Barnaby Page | 9th July 2024 | News analysis
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…
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Ten lessons learned over a decade of covering the novel nicotine industry
Written by Barnaby Page | 4th July 2024 | Blog , News analysis
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…
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Lessons learned from the thought-provoking Global Forum on Nicotine
Written by Barnaby Page | 21st June 2024 | Blog , News analysis
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…
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What’s in a name? Plenty, when we can’t seem to agree on industry terminology
Written by Barnaby Page | 18th January 2024 | Blog , News analysis
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…
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UK government proposes generational tobacco ban to reach smoke-free goal
Written by Barnaby Page | 5th October 2023 | News analysis
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…
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The pollution problem – the latest culprits, who’s to blame and is it solvable?
Written by Barnaby Page | 18th August 2023 | Blog
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…
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Did gloomy forecasts for regulation of novel nicotine products get it wrong?
Written by Barnaby Page | 21st July 2023 | Blog
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?…
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What we talk about when we talk about tobacco – the missing word is ‘nicotine’
Written by Barnaby Page | 13th July 2023 | Blog
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”…
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Is Canada clutching at straws with health warnings that go straight up in smoke?
Written by Barnaby Page | 8th June 2023 | Blog
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…
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In today’s India, it seems, even to talk about harm reduction issues is illegal
Written by Barnaby Page | 25th May 2023 | Blog
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…
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Fears that haunt vaping could easily lurk around other novel nicotine products too
Written by Barnaby Page | 18th May 2023 | Blog
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…
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Is it time the WHO reconsidered its antagonism to the tobacco industry?
Written by Barnaby Page | 11th May 2023 | Blog
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?…
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Australian rules: another crackdown on ‘tobacco’ that cuts out the alternatives
Written by Barnaby Page | 4th May 2023 | Blog
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…
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Panama COP won’t sway many minds but may set the tone on heated tobacco
Written by Barnaby Page | 20th April 2023 | Blog
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…
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Study raises higher hopes for heated tobacco in the smoking cessation stakes
Written by Barnaby Page | 13th April 2023 | Blog
Heated tobacco has never attracted the same level of scientific attention as vaping – but the encouraging results of a new study may change that…
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A whole new rulebook – but what do US FDA proposals really mean in practice?
Written by Barnaby Page | 16th March 2023 | Blog
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?…
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Regulatory differences between states reveal a lot about attitudes and approach
Written by Barnaby Page | 16th February 2023 | Blog
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…
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FDA hostility to flavours – even menthol – may not be bad news for heated tobacco
Written by Barnaby Page | 2nd February 2023 | Blog
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…
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Health warning: ‘science’ so badly flawed it should never have been published
Written by Barnaby Page | 11th January 2023 | Blog
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…
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A world first for New Zealand – but what does a generational cigarette ban mean?
Written by Barnaby Page | 22nd December 2022 | Blog
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…
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‘Overwhelmed, fatigued and upended’ – review diagnoses US CTP’s troubles
Written by Barnaby Page | 20th December 2022 | News analysis
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…
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The genie’s out of the bottle – it’s time the pros and antis got their heads together
Written by Barnaby Page | 13th December 2022 | Blog
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?…
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Swedish Match and a cheaper Iqos – PMI’s ‘cunning plan’ begins to become clear
Written by Barnaby Page | 24th November 2022 | Blog
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…
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HTP in Japan – the seldom told good news story for tobacco harm reduction
Written by Barnaby Page | 3rd November 2022 | Blog
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…
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Coming soon to a nicotine product near you – the correlation/causation fallacy
Written by Barnaby Page | 13th October 2022 | Blog
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…
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Pouches are to smoking as smartphones are to the earliest computers – discuss
Written by Barnaby Page | 5th October 2022 | Blog
It’s fascinating to speculate on how the pouch market will develop. Who will use them, and why, and what will they replace?…
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Swedish Match awarded top marks for transformation to reduced risk
Written by Barnaby Page | 29th September 2022 | News analysis
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…
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Reduced risk or prolonged peril? Are views shifting on the nicotine question?
Written by Barnaby Page | 22nd September 2022 | Blog
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…
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Tobacco may not be a vote-winning issue, but what a difference an election makes
Written by Barnaby Page | 15th September 2022 | Blog
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…
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What do e-cig cases tell us about where US FDA might go on other alternatives?
Written by Barnaby Page | 8th September 2022 | Blog
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?…
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Who, and where, is the science on novel tobacco products coming from?
Written by Barnaby Page | 10th August 2022 | Blog
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…
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Does the latest in the premium cigar case reveal flaws in the FDA's judgement?
Written by Barnaby Page | 15th July 2022 | Blog
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……
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Could other countries take UK's Khan review as a blueprint for change?
Written by Barnaby Page | 7th July 2022 | Blog
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?…
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Now it's official – but does US nicotine cut apply to more than just combustibles?
Written by Barnaby Page | 24th June 2022 | Blog
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…
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How nicotine levels could become a hot issue for smokers and politicians alike
Written by Barnaby Page | 16th June 2022 | Blog
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…