Tobacco

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

Tobacco Category Digest

Tobacco

NYACS: 'Stop Spread of Unregulated RYO Cigarette Outlets'

Says legislature should hold roll-your-own shops to same standards as other retailers

Tobacco

UPDATE: RJR, Lorillard Join PM USA in Cigarette Price Hike

As expected, cigarette manufacturers R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard have matched or exceeded a price increase announced by Philip Morris USA this past week.

Quinn signs package of laws intended to save Medicaid

Altria Group Inc. and Reynolds American Inc. are each pushing through a six-cent per-pack price increase across all cigarettes sold by the tobacco producers.

Close vote may incite similar measures in California and beyond

Products

E-cigarette manufacturer is first to offer a "puff counter"

Of the 23 states in which bills have been introduced during the 2012 legislative session to increase cigarette and/or other tobacco product taxes, to date three state legislatures have passed higher c...

Soft tip filter with same tactile feel of traditional cigarette filter

Fifth Canadian province to go after companies for costs of treating smoking-related illnesses

The Sheriff's unit of the New York City Finance Department conducted a sweep of 1,700 stores licensed to sell tobacco products.

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