Tobacco

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

Tobacco Category Digest

Tobacco

New Management Structure for Altria

Altria Group Inc. has adopted a new senior officer structure that it said "will enhance the company's responsiveness to evolving regulatory and marketplace opportunities."

Tobacco

Jury Awards $71 Million Over Cigarette Sampling

Lorillard denies claims that tobacco products were given to children

Exclusive CSP-UBS Tobacco Survey shows discounts helping new product

Electronic cigarettes to be regulated by FDA as tobacco products, not drugs

The maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer.

Products

Reynolds American Inc. announced several executive appointments and the election of John P. Daly to the RAI board of directors.

Philip Morris, Reynolds cigarettes to rise 8 cents per pack, following Lorillard

Seek to snuff out "Break Free Adventure" marketing campaign

Costs increased 6 cents per pack; other cigarette makers expected to follow suit

To date, 15 courts in 16 cases have refused to certify class actions, PM USA says

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