The UK government has launched a public consultation on adding inserts to cigarette packs to encourage smokers to quit…
Health and science
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The US government is opposing a bill that would prevent the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from enforcing a ban on menthol cigarettes it proposed last year…
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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After the opening question, “Have you ever used cannabis?” came the follow-up: “Do you think it did you any harm?” To which my honest answer was: “Yes. It got me hooked on tobacco”…
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Report says novel products don’t work for smoking cessation…
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Medical journal says ‘FDA must ban menthol cigarettes without delay’...
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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New and emerging nicotine products, including heated tobacco, may threaten the achievements of decades of tobacco control, according to a new report from the World Health Organization…
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Seven out of ten people worldwide – five times as many as in 2007 – are protected against tobacco-related health issues by sound regulatory policies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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Lawyers for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company call the US Food and Drug Administration’s defence of its graphic cigarette warnings “half-hearted” in a new legal brief…
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Filtered cigarettes are as dangerous as those without filters and should be banned, Belgium’s environment minister told TobaccoIntelligence, supporting a call by the country’s Superior Health Council (CSS)…
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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This report provides an overview of the directive and links to our environmental tracker that detail the requirements and transposition status of the EU’s SUP Directive in all 27 EU member states…
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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Report published summarising tobacco and nicotine harm...
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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The Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes) has banned the sale and marketing of pouches containing 20 mg or more of nicotine…
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US cannabis users are three times more likely to be cigarette smokers than those who don’t use cannabis, but this statistic is an example of the “gateway drug fallacy”…
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NGO calls for swift approval of act amendment that aims to ban ENDS...
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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Finnish public health organisations have sent a joint open letter to retailers, urging them not to sell nicotine pouches while tobacco laws are being revised. Pouch sales boomed after they stopped being classified as medicinal…
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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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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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WHO calls for ending subsidies for tobacco farming...
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Commissioner releases statement on World No Tobacco Day...
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Tobacco survey results published for World No Tobacco Day...
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Tobacco and ENDS risk awareness programme launched...
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Warning against ‘misleading information’ on novel products…
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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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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Health equality expert joins federal tobacco watchdog...
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FAQ website published for heated tobacco...
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Taking nicotine out of a tobacco context and inspiring confidence in the role it can play in harm reduction is the goal of Sudhanshu Patwardhan, medical director at the UK Centre for Health Research and Education (CHRE)…
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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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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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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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Heated tobacco ‘no safer than smoking’...
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An increasing age limit to prevent future generations from accessing tobacco products and a ban on flavours are two of the most important elements of new regulations being considered in Norway…
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Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products…
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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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While statistics are vital to understanding our world, they are often misunderstood – and that can be important when it comes to forming opinions and laws on controversial issues such as tobacco…
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A European Council recommendation due in the autumn will be “a recommendation for a tobacco-free environment, regardless of the form tobacco takes”…
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For the third year running, in late 2022 we surveyed members of the European Parliament (MEPs) about their views on new nicotine products – e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches. This report details our findings…
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Underage heated tobacco sales to be discussed by the Health Committee...
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Experts discuss harm, but not harm reduction, on national non-smoking day...
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Council awards funding for research campaign into smoking behaviours...
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Health commissioner discusses BECA achievements...
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Health minister speaks out against novel tobacco product use...
