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Philip Morris joins challenge to EU ban on heated flavoured tobacco products, Irish Times, 22 March January 2023, accessed October 2023
a b M.Banks, Member states urged to do more to enforce new tobacco legislation, eureporter, 1 April 2021, accessed August 2021a b JTI launches new Sterling Dual Capsule Leaf Wrapped 20s format, Wholesale Manager, 15 February 2021, accessed August 2021 Signature cigar range expands with a menthol capsule variety, Convenience Store, 14 February 2020, accessed March 2020 Prior to the ban, menthol cigarettes formed an estimated 21% of the UK market. 9 2018 figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate that there were 7.2 million smokers in the UK; based on the 2016 ITC survey data (detailed above) that would equate to nearly 900,000 smokers who usually smoke menthol cigarettes. According to market research survey based data, the figure was much higher in 2019, nearly 1.6 million in Great Britain, 14 Action on Smoking and Health US, ASH & AATCLC File Lawsuit Against FDA, ASH press release, 17 June 2020, accessed July 2020
The US continues to be an important market for tobacco companies’ menthol brands. In its 2018 Annual Report, BAT said that after it acquired US tobacco company RJ Reynolds in 2017: The tobacco industry has developed new ways to try and subvert the regulations on menthol cigarettes. For example, in January 2020 Imperial Brands launched new ‘Rizla infusions’ cards which can be inserted into cigarettes or hand rolling tobacco to produce a menthol flavour.[10] Japan Tobacco International has launched a new range of menthol flavoured cigarillos which are exempt from the regulations.[11] a b G. Walker, Updated ACS advice offers key clarification on menthol tobacco ban , Convenience Store, 12 February 2020, accessed March 2020 Menthol tobacco companies are exploiting loopholes in the UK’s characterising flavours ban, S. Dance & K. Evans-Reeve, Tobacco Control blog, May 2021 A. Gray, A. Edgecliffe-Johnson, Big Tobacco prepares to fight proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, Financial Times, 17 November 2018, accessed March 2020The provisions of regulation 15 (flavoured cigarettes etc.) do not apply to menthol cigarettes until 20th May 2020. Newport is one of the best-known brands of menthol cigarettes and maintained its top spot, with 6% growth among menthol styles. Marlboro gained 18.1% from 2014 to 2019 and remains second in market share among menthol styles. The proposed standards would also ban characterising flavours in components or parts of cigarettes and cigars (filters, filter wrapper, paper, filter tips, drops, capsules, flavour cards) whether or not they were sold separately. 3 This was not the case with the EU ban, an omission which provided a loophole for the industry to exploit. These attempts to adapt products were criticised by the Irish government with a spokesperson stating that the Health Minister believed the issue “should be dealt with at EU level”. 64 Anti-smoking lobby group ASH lauded the ban as “long overdue” when it was announced, branding menthol cigarettes “a public health disaster” warning it was helping 280 children a day take up the killer habit in England alone.
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