Tobacco

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

Tobacco Category Digest

Tobacco

Canadian C-Store Groups Warn Manitoba Premier on 'Smoke Shacks'

Government tolerance will open "floodgates" to more illegal outlets

Tobacco

FDA Touts Enforcement Efforts in Preventing Tobacco Sales to Minors

Issues 1,200 warning letters to retailers; industry group emphasizes high compliance rate

Regulators considering first statewide prohibition on tobacco sales in pharmacies

Letter to AG Holder calls decision "disappointing"

Four months in, a state cigarette tax reduction hasn't produced the desired results

Products

Judge sides with tobacco companies in blocking FDA's graphic cigarette warning labels

Increases driven by pricing and emerging markets

Fourteen submit comments electronically on FDA violation reporting form

Cigarette-pricing change drives nonfuel sales growth for TA

Will spend $600 million, coinciding with rollout of graphic warning labels

  • Page 292