Author: Pablo Cano Trilla

The report is structured as a Q&A and focuses on forecasting and analysing some specific answers in relation to the revision of the EU’s Tobacco Taxation Directive…

This report provides details of the current regulatory framework in place in Japan for heated tobacco and herbal heated products, covering all policy areas from taxation and advertising to market access and packaging…

This report provides analysis of some of the findings from our Policy Radar, examining four countries on the brink of elections and exploring how the outcome will affect the tobacco and nicotine sector…

This reports examines some of the most important changes implemented in the May update of our Policy Radar and provides some key insights into what they mean for the industry…

Tamarind Intelligence’s new Policy Radar captures in detail the current regulatory framework for leading markets for novel nicotine products and enables us to forecast how regulation will evolve over the next five years…

MEPs recently submitted proposed amendments to the draft report on strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer. TobaccoIntelligence has read and summarised the most impactful amendments…

This report offers an overview of the current restrictions in place in India for heated tobacco, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, including product restrictions, marketing and advertising laws and more…

Pablo Cano Trilla, TobaccoIntelligence’s head of legal analysis, considers how the regulation of tobacco alternatives in China is likely to be affected by a draft amendment to the Tobacco Monopoly Law…

Tobacco pouches (snus) are banned throughout the EU except in Sweden. However, there is no EU-level regulation of pouches that contain nicotine but not tobacco – and they are the subject of this report…

Our third guide to EU regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances looks at possible exemptions for small packages – what is required by law and what may not be…

This article provides guidance on the obligations to notify that arise from EU Regulation 1272/2008 on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures…

This report provides our analysis of how oral tobacco products are regulated in China, looking at areas such as tax, advertising, and product restrictions…

In Europe, chemical substances are classified according to their toxicity levels. Those that are deemed potentially harmful are subject to rules on packaging and labelling, as explained in this report…

This report offers an overview of the current restrictions in place in India for modern oral tobacco products, including product restrictions, marketing and advertising laws and more…

In recent years, there has been interest in adding nicotine to all sorts of products to provide smokers a healthier way to satisfy their craving. This report assesses the possibility of adding nicotine to food in the EU…

In May a new ban will come into force in the EU, prohibiting menthol-flavoured cigarettes and RYO tobacco. This report provides an overview…

TobaccoIntelligence’s head of legal analysis, Pablo Cano Trilla, considers the options for regulation of tobacco-free snus (sometimes known as “white pouch”) under existing European Union law…

PMI’s heated tobacco device IQOS and its associated consumables have been granted market authorisation by the FDA…

This report on Israel includes near-future regulation involving age restrictions, product restrictions, labelling and packaging, obligation to notify, retail channels, public usage, advertising and marketing…

TobaccoIntelligence presents its comprehensive analysis of which countries have banned the three most popular harm reduction products: nicotine-containing vapour products; heated tobacco; and oral tobacco…

Heated tobacco products generally benefit from a more benign tax regime in Europe than vapour products. Our report examines tax laws in EU countries where HnB products have been launched…

The PRI party’s Senator Marcela Guerra Castillo has presented a new bill to legalise e-cigarettes in Mexico…

EU legislation is unclear on how to categorise hybrid devices, which may give manufacturers some degree of choice. This report aims to help them make that choice wisely…

Heated tobacco products may have an advantage in the EU over both cigarettes and e-cigs as the devices are not classed as tobacco products. It remains to be seen how each country allows them to be promoted…

In our latest look at Japan, we find the country is a favoured market for heated tobacco products because regulation is much lighter on tobacco than it is on nicotine-containing e-cigs. In a country where 20% of the population smoke, heated tobacco products are regulated in a similar way to tobacco in most policy areas….

This report examines the regulation of heat-not-burn (HnB) or heated tobacco products in Europe, as well as some of the broader regulatory issues that they raise…