Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th October 2025 || News analysis |
A National Cancer Institute directorship prioritising cure over prevention could mean that funding for research on the impact of quitting smoking on cancer rates is likely to be limited and the first to be dropped ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 6th October 2025 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued calls for companies to voluntarily use child-resistant packaging for nicotine pouches, and for retailers to voluntarily stop selling vaping products that do not have FDA approval ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th September 2025 || News analysis |
Ireland will not regulate nicotine pouches at this time, despite the products already being widespread in the market and currently being sold without restrictions since they are not specifically regulated ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd September 2025 || News analysis |
Nicotine pouches will be able to move more quickly through the US marketing authorisation process, following the launch of a pilot programme that acknowledges their place on the continuum of risk ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th September 2025 || News analysis |
While the US Food and Drug Administration is embracing transparency by releasing full rejection letters for pharmaceuticals, it does not plan do the same for tobacco product denials ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th September 2025 || News analysis |
We utilise data in the newest edition of TobaccoIntelligence’s enforcement tracker to identify trends in enforcement action, looking at how priorities in terms of product, location and type of offence are changing over time ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th September 2025 || News analysis |
From 5th March 2026, the “production, manufacture, transport, import, export, possession, offer, transfer, acquisition and use of products for oral use containing nicotine” will be banned in France ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 26th August 2025 || News analysis |
We utilise data in the newest edition of TobaccoIntelligence’s enforcement tracker to identify trends in enforcement action, looking at how priorities in terms of product, location and type of offence are changing over time ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th August 2025 || News analysis |
Enforcement against illicit alternative nicotine products on the US market has come to the fore since the Food and Drug Administration’s budget for the first time includes a minimum floor for it ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th August 2025 || News analysis |
Harm reduction as a concept is squarely in the sights of the World Health Organization’s (WHO)’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at its upcoming 11th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP11) ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 25th July 2025 || News analysis |
Talk of the US Office on Smoking and Health’s demise may have been premature, as its employee dismissals have been held up by lawsuits. But what would a post-OSH world look like? ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st July 2025 || News analysis |
Since the 1st July ban on disposable vapes in the UK, retail enforcement there say nicotine pouch sales are replacing them, and concerns have cropped up again for youth uptake in the UK and Ireland ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th July 2025 || News analysis |
TobaccoIntelligence is introducing a new enforcement tracker that will collate online accounts of regulator action on illicit e-cigarettes and other alternative nicotine products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th July 2025 || News analysis |
The US Supreme Court has again turned to the issue of proper venue for lawsuits, which has been brought to a head by companies challenging US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decisions on product authorisations ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd July 2025 || News analysis |
The first six months of the current administration under US president Donald Trump can be defined by its use of executive orders and imposition of tariffs on goods imported into the US ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 30th June 2025 || News analysis |
The UK government anticipates that its upcoming Tobacco and Vapes Bill will eliminate all potential grey areas in tobacco and nicotine advertising and vaping regulations ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 24th June 2025 || News analysis |
Philip Morris International (PMI)’s modified risk tobacco product (MRTP) submission status for Zyn nicotine pouches has raised a few interesting comparisons with existing reduced-risk products ...
Recently, three harm-reduction advocacy organisations have stopped operating, and though they gave different reasons for closing, they have more in common than the explanations might suggest ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th June 2025 || News analysis |
Last November, the feeling was that the election of US president Donald Trump indicated a general shift to the right in global politics, but the results did not quite pan out that way ...
Replication is necessary to determine whether the recent critical meta-analysis of heated tobacco studies holds water. It was generally down on both the reduced risk potential of heated tobacco products (HTPs) and their ability to function as smoking-cessation...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd May 2025 || News analysis |
Why has the Netherlands taken such a harsh, prohibitionist stance on nicotine when it has historically been liberal in its approach to other so-called vice products? ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th May 2025 || News analysis |
New US surgeon general nominee Casey Means has not publicly laid out any position on vaping, nicotine or smoking cessation, but some of her public comments suggest she may be amenable to reduced-harm products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 16th May 2025 || News analysis |
All flavours should be banned for nicotine products, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which also wants increased regulation of advertising, limits on hardware design, and plain packaging requirements implemented across the board ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 15th May 2025 || News analysis |
Goods imported from China to the US will see a 115% reduction in tariffs as of 14th May, but the abrupt, temporary change offers no real certainty for long-term business planning ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th May 2025 || News analysis |
This timeline of tariffs will be updated as further changes are made to the US tariff policy on Chinese imports or as new documents are added to the US Federal Register ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th May 2025 || News analysis |
The Tax Foundation has published a series of potential reforms it believes the US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products could realistically implement to address the country’s nicotine alternatives industry ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 12th May 2025 || News analysis |
Nicotine pouch sales continue to climb for Turning Point Brands, which reports sales for its modern oral category (which includes pouches and most snuff) reached $22.3m for the first quarter of 2025 ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th May 2025 || News analysis |
Research into using heated tobacco products (HTPs) as a cessation tool, and the health impact of HTPs themselves, has left many scientists unimpressed ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 2nd May 2025 || News analysis |
The UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill has been debated in the House of Lords (upper house of Parliament) and is now just a few steps away from becoming law ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 14th April 2025 || News analysis |
The US Centers for Disease Control’s Office on Smoking and Health appears to be one of the casualties of job cuts throughout the Department of Health and Human Services ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th April 2025 || News analysis |
As the promised axe has fallen on the workforce at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), what comes next for the agencies and the industry? ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 21st March 2025 || News analysis |
The imposition of tariffs on goods entering the US could have unintended knock-on effects elsewhere in the world, the most obvious being a general increase to prices, even in places not involved in current tariff wars ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently highlighted the success of its Real Cost public health campaign in preventing youth e-cigarette uptake while nicotine pouch use is on the rise ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 10th March 2025 || News analysis |
Turning Point Brands has announced it made $11.2m in nicotine pouch sales in the fourth quarter of 2024, with the oral segment (which includes moist snuff) representing over 50% of total net sales last year ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th March 2025 || News analysis |
Further price increases will result from the latest round of tariffs imposed by US president Donald Trump on China – though downstream impact from tariffs on North American trading partners has again been delayed ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 28th February 2025 || News analysis |
US HSS decision-makers have been shuttling staff between employment and dismissal, much like the Grand Old Duke of York in the nursery rhyme marches troops up and down a hill ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 13th February 2025 || News analysis |
Predictions on what president Donald Trump will do have always been difficult. But some indicators point to a second go-around of the Trump administration providing a degree more stability and predictability ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 4th February 2025 || News analysis |
A second Health and Human Services secretary nomination hearing for Robert F Kennedy Jr. devolved into arguments over “science”, overshadowed by news of his alleged use of a nicotine pouch during his first hearing ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 31st January 2025 || News analysis |
The first fiery hearing for the confirmation of Robert F Kennedy Jr. as US secretary of health and human services went on with plenty of fireworks but little of substance for the nicotine alternatives industry ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 23rd January 2025 || News analysis |
Nicotine alternatives have gone unmentioned through the initial flurry of actions taken after the inauguration of US president Donald Trump, but several executive orders and proposals will have an impact on the sector ...
In something of a disconnect in US public health policy, the proposal for a rule to limit the nicotine content for most combustible tobacco products represents a major change from years of prior decisions ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th January 2025 || News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expects its new proposal for a very low nicotine cap on conventional cigarettes to be a net positive for alternative nicotine products ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 8th January 2025 || News analysis |
TobaccoIntelligence predicts 2025 will be very important for nicotine alternatives, with key decisions to be made and regulation expected to become tougher overall ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 31st December 2024 || News analysis |
We look back at predictions TobaccoIntelligence published at the start of 2024 to see how well we did in calling events that would occur in the nicotine alternatives industry throughout the year ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 19th December 2024 || News analysis |
The year that was 2024 saw the start of an inevitable regulatory pushback against increasing sales of nicotine alternatives, with multiple countries continuing to implement flavour bans on heated tobacco, and more restrictions on nicotine pouches ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 11th December 2024 || News analysis |
In many ways more of a ceremonial position than a leader in policy creation, the US surgeon general has, nonetheless, had an outside impact on tobacco control for quite some time ...
A degree of Covid scepticism unites Trump’s picks for health positions. Will this beget an open mind in other areas of policy and research or will sensationalist science hold sway? ...
Written by Freddie Dawson || 3rd December 2024 || News analysis |
Interest from the nicotine-alternatives industry in US president-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, Martin Makary, is less about who he is and more about who he is not ...