SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will take steps, such as crackdowns on illegal sales, to prevent youths from accessing a new type of e-cigarettes that have become popular in many other countries, the health ministry said Friday. The prevalence of e-cigarettes among adolescents is correlated with a rebound in the number of [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Juul Labs Inc. said Wednesday that its e-cigarette brand will be launched in South Korea later this week as the U.S. company eyes the burgeoning market here. The Juul — which packages nicotine salts from leaf tobacco into one-time use cartridges — is to hit local shelves on Friday, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc. is targeting to enter the South Korean market during the first half of the year, a company official said Tuesday. The Juul, rolled out by the San Francisco-based company in 2017, has become the most popular e-cigarette in America, with a market share [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Users of e-cigarettes are likely to consume conventional tobacco products, a study showed Thursday, suggesting limited health benefits for smokers. According to the survey conducted by the anti-smoking support center under the Korea Health Promotion Institute, all users of IQOS, a heat-not-burn device from Philip Morris International Inc., tended [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Health has added graphic photos to packaging for electronic cigarettes, taking the tobacco industry by surprise. Electronic cigarettes created quite a stir in the industry after their release last year in Korea. But after the government’s strong drive against them, producers have yet to come up [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean unit of Philip Morris International Inc. said Friday it will jack up the price of its heat-and-burn electronic cigarette by nearly 4.7 percent next week. The per-pack price of HEETS, the tobacco units used with its electronic tobacco heating device IQOS, will go up to 4,500 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is seeking to impose higher taxes on smokeless tobacco e-cigarette products and adopt graphic health warning labels on packages, the welfare ministry said Friday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said it had recently proposed a revision to the existing public health promotion law in order to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Tae-kyung, a 37-year-old office worker who has been smoking for 15 years, recently switched to an e-cigarette that heats tobacco without burning. “This is said to be less harmful than traditional cigarettes,” Lee said, as he took a puff on his pen-shaped contraption at a designated smoking zone [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Imports of electronic cigarettes more than doubled after the government raised taxes on conventional tobacco in 2015 to discourage smoking, government data showed Tuesday. Industry sources attribute the sharp rise to smokers switching to e-cigarettes which are exempted from higher taxes. The government increased taxes on cigarettes by 2,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — KT&G Corp. said Thursday it will soon release heat-not-burn (HNB) cigarettes amid the growing popularity of the smoke-free tobacco despite concerns of the emissions of toxic substances similar to those of conventional cigarettes. The largest tobacco manufacturer in South Korea will begin marketing the new product in September, a [...]