Author: Berta Camps Bisbal

This report analyses the potential impact of recent changes in the “major questions doctrine”, which addresses the issue of how far US federal agencies can go in making policy on their own initiative…

This report offers detailed analysis of the regulatory framework currently in place for heated tobacco products in the US, covering all policy areas, including labelling and advertising requirements as well as barriers to market entry…

This report provides analysis of the regulatory framework in place in the US for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, covering all policy areas as well as barriers to market entry…

On 8th January, the US Supreme Court declined to hear tobacco company RJ Reynolds’ challenge to California’s flavour ban on tobacco products. This isn’t the first time a similar challenge has been rejected…

This report examines both US federal and state law, offering analysis of how herbal products for smoking are currently regulated…

This report examines tribal territories in the US and how federal and state tobacco policy affects them, with analysis of specific case law examples…

This report provides detailed analysis of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) report, which assessed the FDA’s efforts regarding online tobacco retailers’ compliance with the Tobacco Control Act…

This report looks at cigarette filters in the US and how lawmakers are dealing with their environmental impact, lack of regulation, and misconception that filtered cigarettes are less harmful to human health than unfiltered ones…

This report examines the US Food and Drug Administration proposed rule that would establish a unified regulatory framework for tobacco product manufacturing practice requirements…

This report examines the influence of some of the major public organisations that work to influence policy on tobacco and vaping in the US…

This report will examine the US legislators’ database, which contains information of the state legislators’ past legislative moves over the last four years…

This report examines the main pathways for tobacco products to enter the market in the US, covering PMTAs, MRTPs and SEs…

This November, elections will be held: legislative races will be conducted in 46 states and governor races will be held in 36. This report analyses the potential outcomes and how it could affect tobacco/nicotine policies in each state…

This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in New York. It covers all policy areas from labelling and packaging requirements and public usage to advertising, notification and taxation…

This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco products in New York. It covers all policy areas from labelling and packaging requirements and public usage to advertising, notification and taxation…

This report analyses whether any of the upcoming tobacco-related regulations may be challenged under the major questions doctrine, including the menthol ban and the policy relating to nicotine levels…

This report asks and answers questions regarding US federal regulation on nicotine pouches, reviewing current law, looking at what stands to change, and clearing up what could happen if state and federal legislation clash…

This report analyses whether US states are considering the different harm profiles of tobacco products when taxing them, in order to encourage consumption of lower-risk products…

The new US federal legislation has brought synthetic nicotine products under the oversight of the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), meaning all synthetic nicotine products have to go through a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) process…

TobaccoIntelligence has compiled lists here of all the local regulations affecting tobacco and e-cigarettes for districts in the Chicago metropolitan area…

This report answers your questions on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s recently issued final rules on the requirements for Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTAs) and Substantial Equivalence (SE) reports…

Synthetic nicotine products are not specifically regulated as such in any US state. This report looks at individual state regulation for such products…

This report analyses the current and likely near-future regulatory framework for nicotine pouches in New Jersey, Virginia, Washington, Arizona, and Massachusetts – the 11th to 15th largest US states by population…

This report analyses whether US states are considering the different harm profiles of tobacco products when taxing them, in order to encourage consumption of lower risk products…

This report analyses the current and likely near-future regulatory framework for nicotine pouches in Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and Michigan – the sixth to tenth largest in the US by population…

This report looks at the regulatory framework for nicotine pouches in the five largest US states by population. A similar report will follow, covering the next five largest states…

Synthetic nicotine, created from chemicals in a lab, not derived from tobacco, is not a specifically regulated product in the US so its legal status is subject to interpretation, as outlined in detail in this report…

This Q&A report looks at the specifics of heated tobacco regulation at both US federal and state level, in the three US states where IQOS and its associated consumables have so far been launched…

In the US there are no specific federal restrictions for nicotine pouches, but states may enact specific legislation regarding tobacco products without conflicting with federal law. This report examines flavour restrictions…

This reports takes on a Q&A structure, providing a comprehensive overview of US regulations of oral nicotine products…

As the US FDA gets to grips with its new focus on nicotine as a single marketplace, it is planning to take a fresh look at one of the longest-established non-combustible forms of the substance – nicotine replacement therapy…

E-cigarettes could be taxed at the same level as cigarettes if a new US proposal passes into law. TobaccoIntelligence believes this attempt is likely to fail…

As PMI’s iQOS comes under consideration by the US FDA, we examine the hurdles it – and other – heated tobacco and e-cigarette products will have to clear to obtain authorisation for commercialisation and reduced-risk claims….