Zambia

PMI is assembling a team to promote its new IQOS ILUMA device, aiming to reach 10,000 UK stores.

Australia's Queensland Health Department is using specialised equipment to test confiscated e-cigarettes for polonium-210, a radioactive isotope that occurs naturally in cigarette tobacco and which scientists now suspect may also be present in e-cigarettes. The e-cigarettes being tested are those seized by Australian law enforcement officials and cover brands such as IGET, MHK and PUFF.

Vape Loft sues VPR to cancel "Elf" trademark, claiming VPR does not have the right to it.

Zambia expects to increase tobacco revenue by 25% and earn $92 million from sales at the end of the September marketing season.