- On the second day of the 2023 Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum (GTNF), CAPHRA Public Health Policy and Implementation Coordinator Nancy Loucas said that despite Australia’s implementation of a strict medical model, smoking rates have shown a stagnant or even rising trend, while New Zealand has successfully reduced smoking rates.
- Dr. Deng Ming, head of new tobacco industry research at Yunnan University, gave a speech at GTNF and said that the future trend of vapesis products that combine heat-not-burn and atomized vapes, such as Korea Tobacco (KT&G)’s “LilAIBLE”
- At the GTNF forum, guests discussed the “road to sustainable development” and “new product development direction”. Some guests believed that products other than nicotine may be the future trend.
- The average unit price of vapesimported into the EU in 2022 will be 58.8 euros/kg. Among them, the country with the lowest import unit price is the Netherlands, which is only 11 euros/kg; the country with the highest import price is Greece, which is 193 euros/kg.
- In July 2023, the total volume of vapesexported from China to France was US$14.735 million (approximately RMB 107 million), an increase of 29.70% month-on-month and a year-on-year decrease of 10.09%.
- Customs at Bangalore Airport in India seized 1,590 vapesworth approximately 140,000 yuan.