Tobacco

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

Tobacco Category Digest

Tobacco

Lighting Up a Gray Area

At CRU, e-cig exec explains FDA regulation situation

Tobacco

'What Happened Is a Long Story'

Cigarette discount king John Roscoe to be sentenced in bank fraud, but still building business

Warnings are "to scare consumers into adopting government's course of action"

Company sees some gains from pricing and smokeless tobacco

Fed. gov. has no authority to take space on packaging to persuade consumers not to buy

Products

FDA law, as passed by Congress in 2009, allows the agency to extend tobacco regulations to other tobacco products, including cigars and pipe tobacco.

The end of Altria Group Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting on May 17 will also mark the end of an era for the tobacco company.

Kessler says similarities not justification for delay

First time company has expanded product line outside licensee network

No timeline set for FDA's menthol report

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