The turnover of light cannabis, estimated at 1,5 billion euros, could yield a billion in revenue if taxed like traditional products. This is what emerges from the Logista Italia Report, in collaboration with The European House - Ambrosetti
New squeeze coming for cigarettes, including electronic ones and Iqos: stop in dehors, parks and at bus stops. The news has sparked controversy and discussions even within the majority itself
New data from Philip Morris International confirms a trend sparked by "combustless" products: e-cigarettes and heated tobacco that provide alternatives for citizens who can't or won't quit smoking
Twenty years after the law that banned smoking in public places, the Minister of Health wants to crack down further. The target? A “tobacco-free” generation
Two days of debate with public policy experts from around the world to testify the importance of encouraging the reduction of smoking harm for the regulation of a thriving and protected sector. Roberto Sussman (physicist):“In the science of tobacco and nicotine, politics has taken over and science is in…
To date, the EU Commission seems oriented towards reducing the number of smokers, without recognizing the principle of risk reduction with alternative products, as the Anglo-Saxon world does. Italy is becoming a reference market.
Quitting smoking is always the best choice but it's not the only way to reduce the harm of smoking - The scientific community validates alternative products such as electronic cigarettes and hybrids
During World No Tobacco Day 2020, a group of independent experts strongly criticized the WHO's retrograde approach to new technology products such as electronic cigarettes which they consider much less risky than smoking and which continue…
Quitting smoking would be the best thing but anything that can reduce the harm of smoking is to be appreciated and in this context the Paris Conference discussed the role that electronic cigarettes can play
According to the former British Minister of Health, Burns, "the war on e-cigarettes is wrong: in Great Britain we have demonstrated that they work in helping smokers to quit" - Summit in London between scientists, politicians and doctors
Altria owns 35 of Juul, a company under fire in the US for the epidemic of vaping among consumers of e-cigarettes
The market for alternative tobacco products continues to grow: "According to our estimates, at least 20% of smokers are willing to change", explains Armando Frassinetti, Imperial Brands Market Manager for Italy.
A new study published in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and led by prof. Riccardo Polosa, director of CoEHAR - Research Center for the Reduction of Harm from Smoking of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of the University of…
From 1 January the new tax regime has increased the prices of bottles of liquid for e-cig from 2,5 to 7,5 euros - From mid-December online sales have also been prohibited so consumers turn to the market…
Approved the amendment to the tax decree: only tobacconists and authorized resellers will be able to sell electronic cigarettes - An increase in the price of tobacco is also on the way to finance cancer research.
The UK government is actively promoting e-cigarettes in an anti-smoking campaign, with smoking rates continuing to drop to their lowest levels on record.
Tallinn's squeeze on e-cigarettes: after the tax increase, a ban on the use of flavors in electronic cigarettes is coming. The reason? The aromas would be a bait for children and teenagers, inducing them to smoke.
The controversy over e-cigarettes continues in view of the meeting organized by the WHO next November in New Delhi: the Organization would like to ban them but the scientific world claims that they are much less harmful than traditional cigarettes and that they can help to stop…
The World Health Organization claims that e-cigarettes are less toxic than traditional cigarettes but that they can have harmful effects - On the contrary, many scholars claim that "electronic cigarettes are helping millions of people to stop smoking" and…
The announcement was made during the conference "Electronic cigarettes, free to grow between tax authorities and regulations" organized in Parliament by the Luigi Einaudi Foundation and ANAFE-Confindustria.
A study by the British public health organization Public Health England (PHE) has revealed that e-cigs are around 95% safer than tobacco products and have the potential to help people quit - Veronesi: "Fashion is…
After the doubts about the toxicity or not, the slowdown of the market and the waltz of the taxman, Italy now ranks at the forefront in Europe in the regulation of electronic cigarettes - In particular, the Italian taxation is clear and transparent, despite the…
After two years of battles in the courts and in the Palaces that count, JAI arrives in Italy, the first electronic cigarette of a tobacco multinational, Imperial Tobacco - The invention of Hon Lik, the famous pharmacist who patented the first cigarette…
A tax of 10 euros plus VAT will be applied to each refill of 3,7344 milliliter e-cigarettes, an increase which, according to sector operators, could lead to increases in consumer prices of 150%.
In traditional smoking, the brands that keep the lowest prices will be the most affected, while for the most expensive cigarettes the variations will be minimal - Hoax on e-cig vials.
From 2015 January 50 a series of increases on excise duties capable of ensuring an additional revenue of 2014 million should come into force, but part of these changes will already be taken into consideration in this last part of XNUMX,…
The government is working on the reorganization of the excise duties on tobacco, which could lead to an increase in the price of cigarette packets of up to 20 cents - Codacons is asking in exchange for the lowering of excise duties on petrol - An intervention is also planned on…
This is the case of the US Altria Group, Reynolds American and Lorillard, all engaged in starting or increasing the production of electronic cigarettes, despite the fact that doubts have arisen about the alleged advantages of these substitutes for smoking.
Reynolds American, owner of the Camel brand, would be about to merge with Lorillard, a leading company in electronic cigarettes - A possible merger of the two groups would create the number two company in the world in the sector.
In 2014, the basket used to calculate the consumer price indices counted 1447 products - There are twenty-one new entries, three exits - In addition to the subscription to online newspapers, electronic cigarettes, bio bags,…
It will take months for the marketing with the 58,5% tax to kick off - According to FIRSTonline, some AAMS regional offices confidentially estimate a time of up to 240 days.
