25 August 2026 Nicotine pouches are emerging as a major growth and profit driver for the tobacco industry, with the global market valued at nearly $7 billion in 2025, and projected to reach $23 billion by 2030. The industry’s growing interest in nicotine pouches is driven by profitability. Reuters reported that Philip Morris International (PMI)’s […]
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18 May 2026 Despite all the claims of transformation and shifting from cigarettes to alternate tobacco and nicotine products that big tobacco companies are making, they are simply not giving up cigarettes because sustainability of their business lies in lucrative cigarette sales. Cigarettes still form the core of their revenue (Table 1). Recently, Philip Morris
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30 March 2026 Big Tobacco makes a lot of noise about how it is shifting to alternate tobacco and nicotine products because it now acknowledges smoking is harmful. But it is not giving up cigarettes because these are simply too lucrative. In 2025, Philip Morris International (PMI)’s net revenue was US $40.6 billion. Of this,
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23 February 2026 Myanmar has become the latest country in the ASEAN to ban e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. With this move, Myanmar joins the majority countries, eight out of eleven in the region, in protecting youth and public from nicotine addiction, leaving Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines behind as the outliers. Complete ban on
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28 January 2026 The tobacco market in the ASEAN region remains dominated by traditional cigarettes, driven by high smoking prevalence in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Although cigarettes represent the largest share of tobacco product sales, recreational nicotine products — primarily e-cigarettes (vapes) and heated tobacco products (HTPs) — are increasing in sales. Big Tobacco
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19 December 2025 2025 has been a mixed bag of outcomes for tobacco control. The ASEAN region had some strong measures being implemented in a few countries, while others succumbed to interference from Big Tobacco (PMI, BAT, JTI and Imperial Brands) as it undermined government efforts and continued its ugly practices to promote its lethal
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