Heated tobacco

Reduced-risk products have severely impacted sales of conventional cigarettes in Japan, according to Japan Tobacco. The firm says the total value of cigarette sales fell by 12.5% in 2017…

The latest evidence review by Public Health England credits e-cigs with helping 20,000 people a year quit smoking, and blames distorted media reporting for that figure not being a lot higher…

The IQOS heated tobacco system is on sale across Southeast Asia, despite doubts over its legality in a number of countries, and the official disapproval of its maker, PMI…

Authorities in the Catalonia region of Spain are investigating whether PMI broke Spanish law with a series of online banner advertisements for its IQOS heated tobacco system…

Our report examines the French distribution channels for PMI’s IQOS, currently the only heated tobacco system available in France, along with its associated Heets consumables…

Agency’s science committee agrees that PMI product decreases exposure to dangerous chemicals, but won’t accept broader claims of long-term risk reduction…

PMI is strongly rumoured to be preparing sponsorship deals with Ferrari and Ducati to promote its IQOS heated-tobacco brand on the world motor-racing circuits of Formula 1 and MotoGP…

Israel is in the process of taking a new approach to the advertising of new tobacco-related products, with a likely ban on all advertising of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products anywhere but in print and at retail locations…

The European Commission has said it will review the future tax situation of e-cigarettes and heated-tobacco products in 2019, and will not propose a revision of the Directive 2011/64/EU on excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco now…

Market growth for e-cigarette products peaked in Ukraine last year; our latest report details the state of an unregulated market in a phase of stability or light growth…

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

ECigIntelligence’s review of the year gone by reflects the big stories of the e-cigarette world in 2017, the trends in regulation, the developing and diverging markets, the science and innovation, and peers into the crystal ball to consider where it all goes from here…

The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease has called for the advertising and indoor use of heat-not-burn (HnB) products to be banned until sufficient independent research has been conducted to confirm their safety…

The UK government committee which this month concluded that heat-not-burn products are safer than combustibles now wants to compare them to e-cigarettes…

The Swiss Federal Council has put forward a second draft of its proposed Tobacco Act, which aims specifically to regulate e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn (HnB) devices…

The Swiss market is dominated by open advanced systems mostly purchased offline. Due to the country’s nicotine ban Switzerland seems an ideal market for shake and vape e-liquids. Foreign shake and vape e-liquids, mostly imported from the U.S., are at the forefront, but several domestic e-liquid brands also produce large format nicotine-free e-liquids….

Tighter regulation “is on the way” for e-cigs, according to the European Commission’s commissioner for health and food safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, who sees “possibilities”  for “stronger regulation” to “stop advertising and online sales”…

The European Commission is considering whether to propose an EU-wide tax on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products, but may choose not to do so for now, following a public consultation…

PMI launched its IQOS heated tobacco product in Italy in 2014. So what sales and marketing strategies has the company used to introduce the brand to Italian consumers?…

Big Tobacco is moving towards a smoke-free future, with all the leading companies indicating a focus in 2018 on next generation products, whether e-cigarettes or heated tobacco products…

Heat-not-burn products will become more expensive than combustible cigarettes in South Korea unless manufacturers decide to absorb part of a new tax rise…

A new market report from ECigIntelligence reveals the growth in global internet traffic to heated tobacco websites since the launch of heat-not-burn products by some Big Tobacco companies…

Web traffic has a strong correlation to sales and sales growth of the consummables inside heated tobacco products. The analysis of web traffic data therefore gives us a good indication of the direction of movement of the category and the likely growth going forwards. This report aims to gauge the success of heated tobacco products by analysing traffic to the manufacturers’ websites….

The biggest tobacco company in South Korea, KT&G, has launched its own heat-not-burn (HnB) device into the rapidly expanding tobacco alternatives market in the country, where it will compete with PMI’s IQOS and BAT’s Glo…

The recent change of government following the general election in New Zealand should not derail attempts to legalise the domestic sale of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes in the country…

Heated tobacco products remain banned in Turkey after opposition politicians uncovered a “hidden” bid by the government to legalise them while retaining the prohibition on e-cigarettes…

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…

Heated tobacco continues to take up a greater and greater share of the total world tobacco market, according to new figures from Philip Morris International (PMI) outlining the success of its IQOS device…

BAT has announced the launch of its Glo heat-not-burn (HnB) device in Russia, where the device can be bought online and Neostiks consumables will be available in branded stores…

A new tax proposal for heat-not-burn (HnB) products in South Korea could leave them more expensive than their traditional cigarette counterparts….

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…

The number of Google searches in Japan for topics related to heat-not-burn has rocketed, illustrating how rapidly the new nicotine technology has gained ground in that country…

The US FDA has missed its own 180-day deadline for replying to the premarket tobacco application (PMTA) by Philip Morris International for its IQOS heated tobacco products…

Our survey of the vaping market in Israel finds little optimism among the cluster of small businesses operating in a country where smoking is on the rise again…

The effects of taxation on Russia’s e-cig market are likely to include price rises, decreased production of e-liquids with nicotine by larger manufacturers, and growth of the black market…

Heat-not-burn (HnB) products could benefit from greater marketing opportunities in the European Union than e-cigarettes and combustible tobacco as the heating devices are not themselves considered to be tobacco products…

The market for heated tobacco products in Japan is very favourable due to comparatively light regulation – as opposed to e-cigarettes, which are subject to more controls…

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….

The American Vaping Association has written to FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb urging him to approve PMI’s heated tobacco product iQOS for sale in the US…

The New Zealand government’s plan to create a “pathway” to the legal sale of alternative tobacco products has been broadly welcomed by harm reduction advocates – but with reservations…

British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched its Glo device in South Korea, joining Philip Morris International (PMI)’s iQOS in what could be a lively market for heated tobacco products…

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…

Increasing demand for smoke-free products is leading many tobacco companies to open new facilities for heat-not-burn manufacturing – in some cases, even replacing cigarettes….

The Republic of Ireland is unlikely to introduce a tax on e-cigarettes or e-liquid in the near future, recent documents suggest….

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….

New Zealand is to introduce an amendment to existing laws that will enable the legal introduction of alternative tobacco products such as snus and heat-not-burn devices…

A move by the US FDA to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes to non-addictive levels could encourage Big Tobacco to put yet more effort into alternatives…

More than a tenth of Italians trying to give up smoking (10.7%) use e-cigarettes to help them – more than any other cessation aids – but the vast majority use no aid at all…

2017 has already been a significant year in the short history of e-cigarettes – and there is more to come in the remaining five months of a the year…

Major Australian public health organisations have submitted evidence to a government inquiry on e-cigarettes, with many taking a negative stance…