Swedish Match has reported 9% growth in global sales in the first nine months of 2021, driven by its smoke-free portfolio in the US and Scandinavia, but profit and market share have not lived up to forecast…
Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) found that plain packaging did not produce a decline in men’s snus use in Norway, with “inconclusive results” on both smoking and women’s snus use…
Hong Kong’s lawmakers have passed a bill banning the import and sale of tobacco-alternative products, including heated tobacco…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued marketing authorisation for four mint-flavoured oral tobacco products that were withdrawn from the US market in 2019…
While the decision to give marketing authorisation to some RJ Reynolds relates specifically to e-cigarette products, it’s highly likely that much the same priorities will govern official thinking on other alternative products…
Philip Morris International (PMI)’s net revenues were up by 9.1% in the third quarter of 2021 thanks to the growth of its heated tobacco segment…
Patents for tobacco alternatives have been booming in recent times as tobacco companies position themselves as contributors to a smoke-free world…
A global consensus between industry, scientists and regulators around the role of tobacco alternatives in smoking cessation could be reached in the long term, but experts believe achieving more cooperation is a major challenge…
The use of tobacco products – including heat-not-burn (HnB) devices – in public places becomes illegal in Kyrgyzstan tomorrow, 13th October, after the country’s president signed a new law…
Some light is now dawning on some truths long since suspected about the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approach to tobacco-alternative products of all kinds through its cumbersome evaluation of e-cigarettes…
MEPs have tabled a set of proposals to amend a draft report by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA), calling on the European Commission to implement a flavour ban on all tobacco products…
PMI and its distributor Altria Group must stop importing Iqos consumables in the US, according to a ruling issued by the US International Trade Commission (ITC)…
Tobacco corporations seem to be accelerating their commitment towards more sustainable businesses, investing in projects to reduce environmental harm caused by tobacco-alternative devices…
New figures from the European Commission reveal broad support for harmonised tax rules for tobacco-alternative products ahead of the revision of a directive on the structure and rates of excise duties on tobacco…
Industry representatives have called for a change of heart within the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) to improve the governance and evolution of the global industry…
The appointment of Maggie Throup as UK public health minister comes at a potentially critical time for tobacco alternatives, with many hoping she will continue the harm reduction approach of her predecessor…
“Misinformation poses a real threat to progress” in a major area of public health concern, we’re told – and this time it’s about the dangers of tobacco-alternative products…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to postpone a discussion on novel tobacco products to a face-to-face event in 2023 – a decision experts are linking to a lack of consensus on what approach to take…
Philip Morris International (PMI) has concluded its controversial £1.1bn takeover of UK health firm Vectura, along with that of the Danish oral-products manufacturer Fertin Pharma…
Swedish Match has announced that the company is to become 100% smoke-free by next year with the separation of its cigar business in the US, a decision that is likely to have an impact in the market…
Three Italian members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are hoping to introduce the concept of harm reduction into a strategy report by the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA), but the idea has not yet been officially endorsed…
As the US Food and Drug Administration’s deadline to pass or reject e-cigarette premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) arrives, where does it leave the market and what might it mean for tobacco alternatives?…
Few countries hit the deadline for implementing the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUP) to reduce the environmental impact of certain plastics – including those in heated tobacco filters – TobaccoIntelligence has found…
Sales of nicotine pouches in the US have risen 300 times higher over the five years since they entered the US market in 2016, according to figures released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Both the House and Senate are intent on increasing the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) budget for next year, but the figure is likely to be far short of the $6.5bn initially requested by president Joe Biden…
The German state of Hesse is targeting heated tobacco along with e-cigarettes in a new legislative initiative to update the current regulations covering smoking…
A study by Cancer Research UK has found that the success rate of attempts to quit smoking in England almost doubled during the first Covid-19 lockdown, while smoking by young adults increased by almost 25%…
Are we really in the midst of a “pandemic” of oral nicotine use by young people, and if so is the answer a flavour ban? 31 US attorneys general have some answering of their own to do…
A group of 31 US state attorneys general have accused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of failing to impose rules setting “acceptable levels of nicotine” for oral nicotine products and called for a flavour ban…
A recent step forward on HnB taken by the FDA could be behind the shift of the Mexican government toward allowing the sale of these smoke-free devices…
Philip Morris International (PMI) has launched Iqos Iluma in Japan today as part of the company’s plan to achieve a smoke-free future…
The most populous city in Taiwan has recently joined eight regions in implementing new legislation restricting the use and sale of e-cigs and heated tobacco…
The board of UK health firm Vectura has recommended that shareholders support the £1.2bn takeover bid from tobacco giant PMI…
Despite heated tobacco products being barely available in the US, it is now officially the next monstrous threat facing America’s youth…
After the recent announcement that the FDA rejected 4.5m from the total 6m PMTAs filed, experts believe that this decision means a clear path for enforcement…
The Russian Health Ministry recently finalised a draft agreement on restricting tobacco-free white pouches across the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) territory…
Researchers at the University of San Diego in California have published a paper showing early evidence that CBD may help ease the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal…
The proposal of Philip Morris International (PMI) to acquire inhaled drug delivery company Ventura for $1.2bn has alerted the UK government, which can block the deal if it sees any major public interest reason to do so…
Two months after prime minister Zdravko Krivokapić submitted a proposal to increase the tax on heated tobacco each year, the Parliament of Montenegro has still not considered it and will not now do so before the autumn…
JTI posted positive numbers in the first half of the year, with good performance from its reduced-risk products and improvement in its full-year guidance after the launch of Ploom X…
Altria has presented positive numbers for the first half of the year, while also announcing a delay in further expansion of Iqos consumables in the US until a patent infringement case is resolved…
Jacek Olczak, CEO of Philip Morris International (PMI), says the company could stop selling combustible cigarettes in the UK within a decade…
British American Tobacco (BAT) has posted a 0.8% global decrease in revenue for the first half of the year, while the performance of its new category portfolio rose by 40.4%…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its eighth report on “the global tobacco epidemic”, which places a new emphasis on “new and emerging products”…
MPs have called on the UK government to present “ambitious plans”, involving novel tobacco alternatives, if they want a smoke-free country by 2030 – a target many public health experts consider unreachable…
Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has issued a decree lifting the import and export ban on heated tobacco devices and consumables, less than 18 months after the prohibition was approved…
An intense period of negotiations on a revision of EU regulation of tobacco-alternative products is coming, following the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) implementation report presented by the European Commission…
A new study by researchers from the Luiss Business School in Rome and Deloitte comes to an unexpected and counterintuitive conclusion…
While politicians in Estonia are currently weighing up the possibility of softening regulations for tobacco-alternative products, a new survey has unveiled new figures about the consumption of these products…
Philip Morris International (PMI)’s net revenues were up by 10% in the first half of 2021, with smoke-free products accounting for 28.5% of the total…
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