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Swedish Match enjoys 35% smoke-free sales boom but predicts downturn

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th April 2020 || News analysis |

Swedish Match’s sales of smoke-free products boomed in the first quarter of 2020, with the segment recording a 35% year-on-year increase to SEK2.508bn (€234m) ...

Heated tobacco compatible products: Japan and South Korea

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th April 2020 || Heated tobacco market reports , Market reports |

Due to the success of heated tobacco products in Japan and South Korea, there are many compatible products available. TobaccoIntelligence had a look into the available compatible hardware devices and consumables ...

Indonesian president urged to clamp down on tobacco to fight coronavirus

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th April 2020 || News analysis |

A group of non-profit and health organisations has called on Indonesian president Joko Widodo to take a stricter stance against tobacco products in the battle against COVID-19 ...

Altria appoints new CEO while facing US court challenge over IQOS

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 20th April 2020 || News analysis |

US tobacco giant Altria has appointed Billy Gifford as CEO. Gifford, previously vice-chairman and CFO, steps up to take over as CEO from Howard Willard, who is retiring after 28 years with the company ...

Swiss canton adds snus and snuff to its youth sales testing programme

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 8th April 2020 || News analysis |

The Swiss canton of Valais is to include snus and other non-combustible products in its tobacco test-purchasing programme for the first time in a widened bid to halt the sale of tobacco products to minors ...

PMTA deadline put back as US judge grants FDA the extra time it asked for

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 7th April 2020 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been granted a 120-day extension to the deadline for premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) ...

Regulatory report: new regulations for heated tobacco in Estonia

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st April 2020 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

The Estonian Tobacco Act does not currently mention heated tobacco products, which may theoretically be sold in Estonia as novel smoking tobacco products. This report covers present and potential future regulation ...

Did heated tobacco give early humans a head start in the evolution race?

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st April 2020 || News analysis |

A distant precursor of today’s heated tobacco products could have provided early humans with a critical survival advantage over their Neanderthal cousins, scientists suggest in a paper published today (1st April) ...

Regulatory report: the power of regional authorities in Russia

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 30th March 2020 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

Regions in Russia are allowed to exercise their own legal regulation while the federal authorities have not adopted laws. This report analyses the attitude of the regions to the regulation of tobacco-free nicotine-containing products ...

The world’s five biggest heated tobacco markets at a glance

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 27th March 2020 || Heated tobacco market reports , Market reports |

This graphic-led report from TobaccoIntelligence provides an easy-to-grasp overview of the heated tobacco markets in Japan, South Korea, Russia, Italy and Germany – and an assessments of prospects for the US market ...

Spain plans new measures to tighten regulations on innovative products

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 24th March 2020 || News analysis |

The Spanish government has announced plans to strengthen enforcement of existing tobacco regulations and to impose taxes on new products such as heated tobacco ...

Nicotine events still on the calendar while others fall victim to COVID-19

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 16th March 2020 || News analysis |

Organisers of two major conferences and exhibitions on nicotine delivery are hoping the events can still go ahead despite the global coronavirus outbreak and a number of other event cancellations and postponements ...

Duterte hands down new regulations on heated tobacco in the Philippines

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th March 2020 || News analysis |

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has issued an executive order placing a range of restrictions on heated tobacco and “other novel tobacco products” ...

US state of Georgia could tax snus at half the rate of traditional tobacco

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 12th March 2020 || News analysis |

Republican lawmakers in the US state of Georgia are proposing that modified risk tobacco products could be taxed at a half portion of the rate traditional tobacco is charged ...

South African budget introduces new tax on heated tobacco products

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 11th March 2020 || News analysis |

The South African government has introduced a new tax on heated tobacco products with immediate effect ...

Regulatory report: snus products, with and without tobacco, in Russia

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th March 2020 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

This report covers the regulatory landscape for tobacco-free and tobacco-containing snus products in Russia. Retail sale of snus containing tobacco has been prohibited in Russia since 2015, but the law does not apply to tobacco-free nicotine snus ...

Regulatory report: how does Sweden regulate tobacco-free snus?

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th March 2020 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

The regulation of tobacco-free pouches is controversial, due to its novelty but also because it is not clear under which regulatory regime these products fall. This report covers Sweden's regulation of tobacco-free snus ...

PMI appoints a CEO for its US wing to push on with ‘smoke-free future’

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 9th March 2020 || News analysis |

Philip Morris International (PMI)’s chief financial officer, Martin King, has been promoted to the newly created role of CEO for PMI America in a bid to further develop the company’s smoke-free segment ...

New Zealand puts forward new regulations for smokeless products

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th March 2020 || News analysis |

A new amendment put before the New Zealand Parliament aims to tighten current regulations on heated tobacco and other smokeless tobacco products – but the country’s attorney general has distanced himself from the proposals ...

Swedish Match to boost ZYN pouch production to meet US demand

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd March 2020 || News analysis |

Swedish Match is to increase production of its tobacco-free nicotine pouch ZYN to 200m cans a year after a steep rise in demand in the US ...

PMI ‘never approached PHE’ with its £1bn plan to promote switching

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 26th February 2020 || News analysis |

Public Health England (PHE) has told TobaccoIntelligence it was never directly approached by Philip Morris International (PMI) over plans for a campaign to promote heat-not-burn and vaping products ...

Regulatory report: US FDA puts VLN cigarettes to MRTP test

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 21st February 2020 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

What benefit might there be in very low nicotine combustible cigarettes? That is the essential question the US FDA must answer in assessing a modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) application from 22nd Century Group for its VLN products...

Is Australia ready to rethink its approach to reduced-risk products?

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th February 2020 || News analysis |

For several decades, Australia’s political and medical establishments have taken a hard line against smoking; but do developments like heated tobacco call for a different approach? ... ...

Could menthol cigarette ban boost uptake of heated tobacco products?

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th February 2020 || News analysis |

The upcoming ban on menthol cigarettes across Europe may create opportunities for increased adoption of alternative tobacco products, such as heated tobacco ...

Trump administration plans to take tobacco regulation out of FDA hands

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th February 2020 || News analysis |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to lose its power to regulate tobacco products if Congress passes president Donald Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2021 ...

44% rise in HnB shipments drives a year of smoke-free growth for PMI

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 6th February 2020 || News analysis |

PMI saw its market share of heated tobacco units in IQOS markets, excluding the US, rise by 1.4 percentage points to 5% last year, with a 44.2% increase in HnB shipments ...

South Korea plans further restrictions on promotion of tobacco alternatives

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th February 2020 || News analysis |

The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare wants to ban practices such as the offering of discounts for heated tobacco products and to make events with free giveaways of such products illegal ...

Tobacco ads in Germany – spending goes up while ban debate goes on

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 4th February 2020 || News analysis |

While politicians in Germany continue to debate a future ban on tobacco-related advertising, new figures show that expenditure on ads by the country’s tobacco industry has increased ...

JT to slash prices of Ploom Tech devices in bid to capture Japanese market

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th January 2020 || News analysis |

Japan Tobacco (JT) is cutting the price of its Ploom Tech and Ploom Tech+ hybrid devices from 1st February as it continues to lag behind its chief Big Tobacco competitors in its home market ...

Anti-tobacco campaign blamed for slump in Spanish e-cigarette sector

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 3rd January 2020 || News analysis |

Falling Spanish e-cigarette sales have led to job losses, with vape stores closing, according to the country’s Union of Vaping Promoters and Entrepreneurs ...

Regulations on the horizon as Ukraine debates new tax on heated tobacco

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th December 2019 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

Ukraine could be the next country to introduce an excise tax burden on vaping products, although as it stands excise tax will apply only to heated tobacco from January 2020 ...

How Swedish Match snus finally got its FDA modified risk approval

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 17th December 2019 || Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its first modified risk order for eight snus smokeless tobacco products to be sold with certain modified risk claims by Swedish Match USA ...

German coalition conservatives agree outdoor advertising ban

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 13th December 2019 || News analysis |

The conservative parties in Germany’s ruling coalition have come out in support of a comprehensive ban on outdoor advertising for tobacco products that would come into force between 2022 and 2024 ...

Swiss Tobacco Prevention Fund ‘should help finance alternatives’

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th December 2019 || News analysis |

Switzerland’s Tobacco Prevention Fund should finance harm reduction initiatives, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health has been told ...

New tax rate for HnB and e-cigs: Kazakhstan regulatory report

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 9th December 2019 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

This report provides an overview of Kazakhstan's regulatory framework. Although the country has not yet implemented regulation for e-cigarettes and heated tobacco, controls are expected in the near future ...

BAT launches new HnB in Korea amid government crackdown

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 29th November 2019 || News analysis |

British American Tobacco (BAT) has launched its “most advanced” heated tobacco product in South Korea – during a critical political period in which the government has taken a harsh stance towards HnB products ...

IQOS market report: PMI’s heated tobacco product grows in new territories

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 14th November 2019 || Heated tobacco market reports , Market reports |

TobaccoIntelligence takes an overview of recent market developments for PMI’s IQOS heated tobacco system, revealing which countries have the biggest growth, who is likely to use the device and what the future might hold ...

Global tobacco harm reduction policies: selected country overview

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 11th November 2019 || Heated tobacco regulatory reports , Nicotine pouches regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |

This report provides an overview of harm-reduction policies with regards to tobacco use from 18 selected countries from around the...

Altria’s smokeless portfolio performs well despite taking hit on Juul

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 1st November 2019 || News analysis |

Altria’s global net revenues rose 0.3% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2019 to $6.86bn, primarily due to higher net revenues in the smokeless products...

JTI lowers its 2019 forecast as Japanese Ploom Tech sales fall

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 31st October 2019 || News analysis |

Falling sales of Japan Tobacco’s heated tobacco device Ploom Tech have hit the company’s total revenue from reduced risk products, which fell by JPY7.1bn ($65.7m) to JPY17.8bn ($164.6m) in Q3...

German talks prepare for ban on outdoor tobacco advertising

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 18th October 2019 || News analysis |

A number of MPs from Germany’s ruling coalition have emphasised their willingness to reach agreement quickly on a federal ban on outdoor advertising of tobacco...

PMI chief Calantzopoulos talks up ‘exciting global growth’ of HnB

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 17th October 2019 || News analysis |

PMI has posted an 84.8% year-on-year increase in heated tobacco shipments in the third quarter of 2019 to nearly 16bn units, while its shipments of conventional cigarettes went down by 5.9% ...

Swiss upper house backs ban on tobacco sales to minors and ad restrictions

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd October 2019 || News analysis |

The upper house of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Council of States, has approved a ban on the sale of all tobacco products to under-18s and on advertising them in magazines or online ...

Russia approves progressive tax increase for vaping products and HnB

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 28th September 2019 || News analysis |

The Russian Duma has adopted a new bill that amends the tax code for 2020, increasing excise tax applied to heated tobacco products ...

South Korea cracks down on public smoking, vaping and HnB use

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 25th September 2019 || News analysis |

Local authorities across South Korea are carrying out patrols to enforce regulations against smoking, vaping and use of heat-not-burn (HnB) products in a wide range of public...

Big Tobacco job cuts highlight growing pressure on combustibles business

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th September 2019 || News analysis |

A wave of workforce cuts by major companies such as British American Tobacco (BAT) and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) may be just the tip of the iceberg for Big Tobacco ...

Spanish campaign attacks smoking and alternatives in one blast

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 19th September 2019 || News analysis |

A new anti-smoking campaign by the Spanish government takes on smoking, vaping, heated tobacco and hookahs under the motto “El tabaco ata y te mata” (“Tobacco ties and kills you”) ...

Philippines vapour industry faces hike in taxes before they even come in

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 10th September 2019 || News analysis |

Barely a month after Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte signed a law setting taxes on heated tobacco and vaping products, the House of Representatives has opted to change the entire tax...

Brazil to launch public consultation on approach to new tobacco regulation

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 5th September 2019 || News analysis |

The Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency, ANVISA, is to launch a public consultation as a step towards deciding whether to amend the national ban e-cigs and heated...

Vaping and HnB tax revenues rocketing in crisis-hit Italy

Written by TobaccoIntelligence || 2nd September 2019 || News analysis |

Tax revenues from e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn (HnB) products raised €172.6m in Italy in 2018, a big increase over previous years. Meanwhile, there are fresh doubts over the political future ...

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