The Zhitong Finance App learned that Smore International (06969) rose more than 6% in the afternoon. As of press release, it had risen 5.97% to HK$7.45, with a turnover of HK$141 million.

According to the news, according to media reports, South Korean officials said on the 15th that the government plans to push for amendments to relevant laws to strengthen control over e-cigarettes. Related reports quoted several government officials as saying that South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Planning and Finance intend to push for amendments to the tobacco law to include synthetic nicotine in the tobacco category. According to Korea's current law, synthetic nicotine is not a tobacco, so e-cigarettes containing synthetic nicotine are not subject to the Tobacco Act.

Shen Wan Hongyuan pointed out that in overseas markets, the company's gross margin was reduced in the short term due to factors such as benefiting customers and expanding new disposable e-cigarette businesses; the medium- to long-term compliance process in overseas markets continued to advance, non-smoke-free deployment accelerated, and the company's share increased smoothly. In the domestic market, new regulations on e-cigarettes have officially been implemented, and there is a clear trend of concentrating production capacity at the top of the new national standard. Looking at the general trend of increasing the penetration rate of new types of tobacco in the long run, the scale of domestic business revenue is expected to gradually expand.