- British American Tobacco Group’s Reynolds Tobacco Company’svapeVuse Alto has obtained FDA marketing authorization. The group’s CEO emphasized that this authorization supports the group’s multi-category strategy and vision of a smoke-free world, while calling on the FDA to step up its crackdown on the illegal vape market. Currently, the FDA has authorized 34 vapes.
- Wang Gongcheng, member of theParty Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the China State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, met with Lee Sang-hak, Chief Vice President of Korea Tobacco Corporation (KT&G), in Beijing, and the two sides held friendly talks.
- New York City, USA, closed more than 600 illegal vapestores in the “Padlock Protection Operation” and seized illegal vapesworth about one million US dollars.
- In May 2024, China’s vape exports to South Africa were about 9.71 million US dollars, a month-on-month increase of 75.7% and a year-on-year increase of 16.7%; the export volume was about 194 tons, a month-on-month increase of 53.60% and a year-on-year increase of 18.79%.
- The Minister of Public Health of Thailand approved the former Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice to lead the working group, jointly with relevant agencies to strengthen the crackdown on vapes, and coordinated the Internet police to close 309 online sales accounts.
- The Director of the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) personally seized a vending machine that openly sold illegal FLAVA brand vapes. Previously, the brand had been ordered to stop operating by the agency.