Notice! There is new news about electronic cigarettes! !

On March 11, the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau issued the "Measures for the Administration of Electronic Cigarettes", and also issued the National Standard for Electronic Cigarettes (the second draft for comments) (hereinafter referred to as the "National Standard for Electronic Cigarettes"), which is in the "under review" state. The standard information public service platform shows that the pass rate has exceeded 92%, and it is only one step away from the official introduction. The industry expects that the national standard for e-cigarettes may come into effect before May, and it will be implemented in conjunction with the management measures to start compliance supervision of the e-cigarette industry. Many in the industry believe that compliance is a good opportunity for the development of the industry, which will force enterprises to upgrade and take on their due social responsibilities.

In the second draft released for comments, it is not difficult to find that there are quite a few changes compared with the November 2021 version. This has led to the confusion of "what to do?" in some industries. Someone revealed, "I have been communicating with customers for the past few days, asking if there is any change in the next order, what are you going to do? As a result, many customers asked me for my suggestion 'what should we do'? There is no clear idea."

As the upstream of the e-cigarette industry chain, e-liquid is also the core material of e-cigarettes. In this new regulation, it is the most affected. Compared with the consultation draft issued in December 2021, the "Administrative Measures for Electronic Cigarettes" was announced on March 11 to explicitly prohibit the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes other than tobacco flavors. The number of licensed substances has also been reduced from 122 to 101. These two major changes are challenging for e-liquid manufacturers.

Most e-cigarette manufacturers are located in Bao'an District, Shenzhen and Chang'an Town, Dongguan. Affected by the epidemic, the domestic e-cigarette industry chain and supply chain were suspended for a week last week, and some white-listed companies have just resumed work this week. The person in charge of the aforementioned e-liquid company said that the order quantity of fruity e-liquid in their factory has not been notified to change, and production and delivery will continue after the start of construction, but it is expected that the next order volume of the brand will decrease. After all, on May 1st After that, only tobacco-flavored pods can be sold.

 On the other hand, after the release of the national standard for "Electronic Cigarettes" (the second draft for comments), it will take time for companies to develop and produce products that meet the requirements. Completed within 40 days.

Electronic cigarettes have been controversial since their inception. Countries have different regulatory policies on electronic cigarettes. Some support and legalize sales, some do not support or oppose it, some completely prohibit sales, and some legislate to prohibit sales. However, judging from the development trend of regulatory policies in various countries, countries are constantly strengthening the supervision of new tobacco products such as e-cigarettes.

Singapore, Hong Kong and other places prohibit the import, sale and use of electronic cigarettes. On October 21 last year, the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passed the third reading of the "Smoking (Public Health) (Amendment) Bill 2019" (the Bill), which completely banned new tobacco products such as e-cigarettes. The Secretary for Food and Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Chen Zhaoshi, said that the new law will take effect 6 months after it is gazetted, which means that new smoking products will not be able to enter Hong Kong from next month.

The United States is the world's largest e-cigarette market, and their attitude towards e-cigarettes is limited supervision. The United States banned flavored e-cigarettes in 2020, but allows open e-cigarettes and disposable e-cigarettes at the same time.

There are also countries that choose to embrace electronic cigarettes, such as the United Kingdom and New Zealand, which strongly support electronic cigarettes. Of course, support does not mean no matter, the content of nicotine will also be stipulated, and compliant production is required.