Laws

No one shall force physical stores to remove electronic cigarettes

On November 1, the State Administration of Market Regualtion and the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau jointly issued the notice on further protecting minors from electronic cigarettes (hereinafter referred to as the notice), calling for the closure of online sales channels of electronic cigarettes and the withdrawal of electronic cigarette advertisements…

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12.6 million e-cigarette consumers in China last year

China has a large base of smokers, so it has always been a hot target of Chinese and foreign e-cigarette companies. Number of consumers of e-cigarettes in 2018 accounting for 0.9% of total population, about 12.6 million According to Bloomberg intelligence, China currently accounts for 27.8% of the total number…

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Will the electronic cigarettes online prohibition repeat the history of Prohibition of Alcohol

Before we talk about electronic cigarettes, let’s talk about the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. On January 17, 1920, just after midnight, people in full dress began to sing and dance. On the dance floor, people wriggled excitedly. But strangely enough, it’s hard to find the old toasting…

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Notice on Further Strengthening the Work of Smoking Control for Teenagers

GWGHH [2019] No. 230 Health Committee, Propaganda Department of Party committee, Education department (Education Committee, bureau), Market supervision bureau (Department, committee), Radio and Television Bureau (culture, sports, radio, television and Tourism Bureau), Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, Youth League Committee and women’s Federation of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the…

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Another note on the online sales of vapes from the state tobacco monopoly administration

Further regulation – The state tobacco monopoly administration once again issued a voice to note about retrieving information about electronic cigarette products on the whole network after No.1 announcement. In order to further protect minors from e-cigarettes and strengthen the supervision of e-cigarettes market, recently, the state tobacco monopoly administration…

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All the vape product pages are removed from JD mall

On the evening of November 5, it was found in the test in China’s biggest online shopping platform JD mall that all the product pages of electronic cigarettes had been removed at around 18:30. E-cigarettes and other related keywords have been unable to find vape products. Meanwhile, brand search can…

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Predict on the second half of the China vape industry

Since the circular clearly states that “enterprises or individuals that produce and sell e-cigarettes are urged to withdraw the e-cigarette advertisements published through the Internet.” Then the domestic e-cigarette market in the future will not have a big change in the short term. After all, the one who becomes obtrusive…

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Vapes are sold well online on the first day of the announcement from China Tobacco

At present, until 10 o’clock this morning, the e-commerce platform didn’t get off the shelves of vapes, and many products sold well within 24 hours after the issuance of the online sales ban, with a daily sales volume of over 1000. The emergence of e-cigarettes has created a new curve.…

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