Heated tobacco

Alternative tobacco products, including heated tobacco and nicotine pouches, have taken worldwide sales from combustibles over the past three years, with the cigarette segment declining by 5%…

2021 may have been a downer in many other areas but the year saw phenomenal growth across tobacco alternatives, including in the oral segment, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches…

This report on the current and near-future regulatory framework for tobacco-related products in Belgium covers heated tobacco (HnB), tobacco-free nicotine pouches and oral tobacco products…

This report presents the findings of TobaccoIntelligence’s 2021 consumer survey undertaken to study the consumption and behavioural patterns of heated tobacco users in Italy…

A new blanket ban in Taiwan’s capital on the sale and import of tobacco-alternative products is heavy-handed and nonsensical, an expert in the city’s medical university says…

Italian senators from different political parties have tabled a number of amendments to the Budget Bill 2022 aiming to modify the excise tax rates on heated tobacco products…

It’s the end of an era as tobacco sponsorship of Formula One racing comes to an end – again. Or does it and is it?…

This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework in place in Panama for heated tobacco, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches…

Japan’s heated tobacco sector is continuing to grow strongly and to take market share from traditional cigarettes, with the main players releasing new devices and revamping their heat-not-burn (HnB) divisions…

There is no comprehensive legal framework on tobacco products in Venezuela, but several resolutions regulate different aspects of the commercialisation of tobacco products…

The European Parliament’s Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) gave the green light to a cancer report that urges the Commission to assess a ban on characterising flavours in heated tobacco…

This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in the European Union…

This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in Poland…

This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in Germany…

This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in the Czech Republic…

This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in Italy…

This interactive infographic provides a market overview of novel nicotine products in Greece…

The final report of the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) is expected to ask the Commission to implement a blanket ban on “all characteristic flavours” in heated tobacco and novel tobacco products…

Sooner or later the EU will have a new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), and one of the big questions will be how it treats new product categories which barely existed at the time of TPD2…

TobaccoIntelligence carried out a second survey of MEPs, following a similar survey in 2020, to find out how their views on new nicotine products – e-cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches – have changed…

The State Council of China has approved an addition to the Tobacco Monopoly Law, clarifying what has been a grey area surrounding the regulation and categorisation of tobacco-alternative products…

The use of traditional tobacco products has been in decline across the EU in recent decades. We conducted a recent study to gauge the economic impact of novel nicotine products in Europe…

A proposal in Poland to increase excise duties applying to innovative tobacco products, including heated tobacco, was passed by the parliament (Sejm) and is now waiting for the decision of the Senate…

This report offers an overview of the current regulatory framework in place for heated and oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, as well as discussion of the possible future changes that could be brought in soon…

Tobacco giant Imperial Brands has told investors that the ongoing trials of its Pulze heated tobacco device and iD consumables in Central and Eastern Europe were “progressing well”…

In Portugal heated tobacco and other “novelties” are subject to the same restrictions as traditional cigarettes in terms of sales, advertising and public place usage. Official authorisation must be obtained before marketing products…

This report focuses on compatible devices in South Korea, which are hardware that can be used with consumables designed for other devices produced by large tobacco companies…

This report gives an overview of the regulatory regime in Iceland for heated tobacco, snus and nicotine pouches, focusing on both current and possible future regulation…

Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has posted positive figures for the first nine months of the year, with a good performance from its reduced-risk products in its domestic market…

This report covers the current regulatory regime in Spain for heated tobacco and modern oral products, looking at the current restrictions as well as any possible future ones…

This regulatory report covers all current and near-future regulation of heated tobacco, oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Kuwait…

Hong Kong’s lawmakers have passed a bill banning the import and sale of tobacco-alternative products, including heated tobacco…

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…

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…

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…

This report offers a detailed overview of the current regulatory regime in place in Ukraine for heated tobacco, snus and nicotine pouches as well as an analysis of the possible upcoming near-future regulations…

Heated tobacco products must follow tobacco regulation in Canada. This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current regulations in place for heated tobacco products and snus…

This short report provides an overview of the main heated tobacco products and brands, covering the major Big Tobacco brands and their products as well as compatible hardware and consumable products…

Heated tobacco consumables are considered in Poland to be novel tobacco products. This report details the country’s rules and regulations for heat-not-burn (HnB) products as well as for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches…

This provides a historical compilation of the updates to the heated tobacco regulatory tracker from September 2020 to the present…

This provides a historical compilation of the updates to the heated tobacco tracker of international tax rates from August 2021 to the present…

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 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…

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…

Despite heated tobacco products being barely available in the US, it is now officially the next monstrous threat facing America’s youth…

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…

Jacek Olczak, CEO of Philip Morris International (PMI), says the company could stop selling combustible cigarettes in the UK within a decade…