Tobacco

Tobacco, cigarette and e-cig category news for the convenience-store retail industry

Tobacco Category Digest

Tobacco

Republic Tobacco Sale Update

Private-equity firms Carlyle, Pamplona said to be weighing bids

Tobacco

Newport It's Not

Lorillard wins lawsuit against spice knockoff marketed as "Newprot"

Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) conduct compliance inspections on retailers that sell tobacco products. Whil...

Retailers believe product bridges gap between traditional and electronic cigarettes

Herzog to Big Tobacco: Electronic cigarettes are "more than just a fad"

Products

U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg renewed his call for a ban on flavored cigars, which he claimed are "surging in popularity" among children and young adults.

Calls product "public health menace"; ban lumped into law to stiffen penalties for sale of heroin

Rules retailers need to abide by to be compliant

Last Friday, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) issued a quarterly progress report on the agency's actions and efforts in implementing the federal toba...

Sales data doesn't support allegation that cigarette smokers are switching to cigars

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