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Technology and innovation
Heated tobacco market tracker insights, Q2 2025
4th August 2025 - Heated tobacco market reports , Market reports |
This short report offers insights into heated tobacco compatible hardware and consumables found in the second quarter of 2025, taken from our compatible hardware and herbal heated sticks trackers
Heated tobacco compatible hardware tracker
22nd July 2025 - Heated tobacco market data , Market data |
TobaccoIntelligence’s heated tobacco compatible hardware tracker brings together and tracks key data on hardware products offered in the largest global heated tobacco markets
Forging ahead: technological innovation in reduced-risk products advancing fast
18th July 2025 - News analysis |
Unlike filter cigarettes, which basically remained unchanged since they first entered the market in 1934, reduced-risk products have become a realm of innovation since their inception
Smart quitting: new inhaler and heating technologies may aid smoking cessation
16th July 2025 - News analysis |
The effectiveness of the arsenal of nicotine replacement therapy products available to help smokers quit remains disappointing, but new inhaler technology could deliver better results
Advances in age-verification and age-gating technologies could save the day
11th July 2025 - News analysis |
Could age-verification and age-gating technologies help get the balance right between flavoured alternative nicotine products as smoking-cessation aids for adults and keeping them away from under-age users?
US FDA debuts AI tool ahead of time but early users encounter teething problems
19th June 2025 - News analysis |
With great fanfare, the US Food and Drug Administration has announced the rollout of its new artificial intelligence scientific review assistant, Elsa. But questions have been raised about the tool’s potential
Ispire joint venture files first-ever US FDA PMTA for age-gating chip in ENDS devices
2nd June 2025 - News analysis |
Ike Tech, co-founded by Ispire, filed the first-ever premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a system that requires continuous, real-time ID verification to access ENDS devices
Spotlight on Big Tobacco’s smoke-free shift: real progress or far-off promise?
19th May 2025 - News analysis |
In part one of a four-part series, we examine how close leading players are to their goals of becoming smoke-free almost ten years after the first tobacco company committed to swapping cigarettes for alternative products
Nicotine pouches are more popular in the US, but will that be allowed to continue?
8th May 2025 - Blog , News analysis |
The US nicotine pouch market is currently the world’s largest in value and number of users, and while regulation may impact its growth rates in the future, consumers continue to be attracted to the product
Collaboration and taking the ‘sandbox approach’ to balance innovation with risk
6th May 2025 - News analysis |
Douglas Ming Deng of Yunnan University will present his research on the evolution of the tobacco industry through R&D at the Novel Nicotine Expo in Geneva this week
A US FDA under Kennedy could impact innovation and nic alternatives in Europe
6th February 2025 - Blog , News analysis |
The nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr., a prominent environmentalist and vaccine sceptic, as US secretary of health could have indirect implications for the nicotine alternatives industry, even in Europe
Innovation urgently needed in smoking cessation treatments, say FDA and NIH
17th October 2024 - News analysis |
Improved smoking cessation treatments and more research on e-cigarettes are urgently needed, according to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Global tobacco industry eyes EU as it pivots towards more sustainable filters
23rd September 2024 - News analysis |
The tobacco industry is shifting towards making more sustainable cigarette filters. Innovation of this kind may soon find its way into heated tobacco products, driven by regulatory changes that could ban single-use filters
Lead next-gen innovation with consumer rather than regulatory focus, advises CRO
23rd August 2024 - News analysis |
Businesses that lead product innovation with what the consumer wants will be one step ahead when it comes to taking a next-generation product to market – particularly when making PMTAs in the US
Nicotine and flavour delivery innovations driving nicotine pouch evolution globally
15th August 2024 - Blog , News analysis |
From innovative flavour formulations to extended-release mechanisms and eco-friendly packaging, the globally expanding nicotine pouch industry is undergoing a transformative phase
Weekly regulatory podcast: 22nd – 26th July
30th July 2024 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
Weekly regulatory podcast: 15th – 19th July
25th July 2024 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
Weekly regulatory podcast: 8th – 12th July
16th July 2024 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
KT&G uses new fast-charging tech to revamp Lil Aible heated tobacco device
2nd July 2024 - News analysis |
KT&G has unveiled a new version of its Lil Aible heated tobacco device. The South Korean tobacco company highlighted the improved charging and pre-heating times of Lil Aible 2.0
Inhaling device submitted for UK MHRA approval as nicotine replacement therapy
16th May 2024 - News analysis |
UK medical device manufacturer Ventus Medical has submitted a marketing authorisation application for an inhaling device to be used as a nicotine replacement therapy (NTR) in the UK
Latest novel nicotine innovation could possibly evade most legal restrictions
1st April 2024 - News analysis |
While novel nicotine products face increasingly tight legal restrictions and requirements in many countries, one startup believes it has come up with a product that will escape regulation entirely
A global overview and analysis of the evolution of the heated tobacco industry
13th March 2024 - Heated tobacco market reports , Market reports |
This report focuses on the heated tobacco industry, providing an overview and analysis of different aspects, such as the launch of major brands and pricing strategies, market size, and the future of the industry
New tech helps 22nd Century expand its vision for reduced-nicotine tobacco
8th November 2023 - News analysis |
22nd Century is already demonstrating its commitment to expand its intellectual property in the area of reduced-nicotine tobacco, which it said it would undertake during a presentation of its third quarter results
Potential for convergence of HT and vape technologies discussed at GTNF in Seoul
13th October 2023 - News analysis |
Future innovation in vaping and tobacco alternatives is likely to involve environmental improvements and prevention of youth usage, said speakers at the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum
Looking into nicotine – non-tobacco sources for research and even benefits
6th September 2023 - News analysis |
Despite increasing interest in synthetic nicotine, most nicotine still comes from tobacco. But could other plants also be a commercially viable source of the substance?
Weekly regulatory podcast: 24th-28th July
31st July 2023 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
Weekly regulatory podcast: 3rd-7th July
12th July 2023 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
Weekly regulatory podcast: 12th-16th June
19th June 2023 - Regulatory alerts podcasts |
Our weekly podcast brings you a summary of the TobaccoIntelligence daily alerts, covering key developments in law and regulation surrounding novel nicotine products
UK court dismisses tit-for-tat claims in long-running PMI/BAT patents feud
11th May 2023 - News analysis |
A dismissive ruling by the High Court in London is just the latest in a series of ongoing legal battles between PMI and BAT over the patents for their rival heated-tobacco systems Iqos and Glo
New from T******Intelligence – your friendly artificial guide to everything!
1st April 2023 - News analysis |
In line with our commitment to bring you the highest-quality analysis of the tobacco alternatives sector, today – 1st April – TobaccoIntelligence launches its new AI product, the Chat Personal Virtual Curator (ChatPVC)
Proposed new EU packaging and waste rules evoke strong but mixed response
15th February 2023 - News analysis |
The European Commission has issued a proposal for a revision of EU legislation on packaging and packaging waste, which could have profound long-term consequences for the tobacco alternatives industry
BAT confident Hyper X2 can add to its Glo-ing performance in HnB and oral
28th July 2022 - News analysis |
British American Tobacco (BAT) saw revenue from its new products category portfolio rise by 45% in the first half of the year, with good returns from its modern oral and heated tobacco portfolio
‘Misleading and irresponsible’ – UK ASA rules on ads for cigarette flavour additive
26th July 2022 - News analysis |
A new way to add flavours to conventional cigarettes has gained publicity after being criticised by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
Swedish innovator proposes concrete solution to nicotine pouch drawbacks
27th June 2022 - News analysis |
Innovation in nicotine pouches – better release profile, longer lasting flavour and effect – is coming from an unexpected area… the remarkable world of concrete
