- Tobacco Roundup: No Shortage Of Conflicts For Nicotine Brands
CPG Insider, Steve Ellwanger - Friday, March 11, 2022
In March 2020, the FDA mandated 11 new graphic --- and outrig ...
- Red Man Chewing Tobacco Rebranding To America's Best Chew
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Tuesday, January 25, 2022
The move by Swedish Match is the latest in a series ...
- A Chilled-Out Year? CBD, THC Dominate Most-Read Columns
CPG Insider, Steve Ellwanger - Thursday, December 30, 2021
Of the top 10 most-read CPG FYI columns of 2021, six we ...
- VLN Cigarette Brands Get First FDA 'Modified Risk' Designation
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Monday, December 27, 2021
FDA said 22nd Century brands VLN King and VLN Menthol can redu ...
- Awaiting Vaping Verdict, Altria Faces Challenge To iQos Tobacco Devices
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Internat'l Trade Commish said iQos infringed upon two patents owned by Briti ...
- Juul's Fate Uncertain As FDA Rejects Nearly 1 Million Vape Products
Marketing Daily, Steve Ellwanger - Monday, September 13, 2021
FDA said flavored e-cigarette products posed a public health threat because ...
- Philip Morris Takes Heat For Acquisition Of Lung-Health-Remedy Provider
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Monday, July 12, 2021
UK-based Vectura, purchased for $1.2 billion, makes respiratory drug inhalers for conditio ...
- Juul Fined $40M For Targeting Youths, Awaits Separate Antitrust Decision
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Wednesday, June 30, 2021
The $40M settlement, to be paid to North Carolina, could be follow ...
- Tobacco Truths? From 'Vaping Is Better' To Corporate Smoke & Mirrors
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Tuesday, June 8, 2021
British American Tobacco reports on research that pooh-poohs risk of vaping, whi ...
- Altria, Juul Face RICO Claim, FTC Complaint
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Steve Ellwanger - Thursday, April 15, 2021
The FTC alleges that Altria and Juul eliminated competition in the e-cigaret ...
- Addiction Is The Supervillain In Vaping Prevention Comic
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, April 5, 2021
Besides the comic book, the campaign from FCB includes online videos, soci ...
- Spotlight On Tobacco: Cigarette Sales Up In Pandemic, Vaping Declines
CPG Insider, Steve Ellwanger - Friday, February 5, 2021
How long the bottoming of cigarette sales will continue is anyone's gues ...
- Taat Hemp-Based Cigarettes Ready To Roll In Ohio
CPG Insider, Steve Ellwanger - Friday, November 6, 2020
Former Philip Morris and Lorillard execs say they want to help peop ...
- Reynolds American Is Trying To Make Vaping Cool
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Reynolds American, which also sells Camel and Newport cigarettes, is using ...
- As Pandemic Lights Up Tobacco Sales, Altria Ramps Up Smokeless Alternatives
Marketing Daily, Steve Ellwanger - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
The on! brand of nicotine pouches is marketed as way to inge ...
- E-Cigarette Maker Juul Labs Plans Layoffs
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Thursday, April 30, 2020
Juul Labs plans to cut around a third of its staff ...
- Trump Administration Announces Scaled-Back Ban On Vaping Products
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, January 3, 2020
There's a temporary ban on many candy- and fruit-flavored e-cigarettes favored ...
- Smoker Data Revealed In British-American Tobacco Breach In Romania
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Email address, gender and date of birth were also exposed, according ...
- New York, California, AMA Attack Juul's Marketing As Trump Retreats
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Both states are suing Juul for targeting young people with "deceptive a ...
- Juul Pulls Fruity Flavors From Its Website
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, October 18, 2019
Still, "the banned flavors are not the ones teens are using mo ...
- Vaping Criticism: Is It Warranted?
CPG Insider, Steve Ellwanger - Friday, September 6, 2019
Vaping was thought to be responsible for recently reported mysterious lung affliction ...
- With Anti-Vaping Push, CVS Wades Deeper Into Purpose
Marketing Daily, Sarah Mahoney - Wednesday, September 4, 2019
CVS has been collecting evidence that its five-year-old ban on selling tobac ...
- FDA Wants 13 Grisly Images Of Smoking's Impact On Cigarette Packs
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, August 16, 2019
"The proposal is also a test of the rule-making clout of t ...
- Fed Judge Orders FDA To Speed Up E-Cig Reviews As NC Sues Juul
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Thursday, May 16, 2019
North Carolina is the first state to take legal action against Juu ...
- CVS Health To Agencies: Thank You For Not (Promoting) Smoking
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Brilliant move, CVS. I wonder how agency executives can live with themselve ...
- When Teens Take It Too Far
Marketing Insider, Aaron Paquette - Thursday, January 10, 2019
Sometimes a marketer's biggest problem isn't getting teens to use a bra ...
- As Teen Vaping Surges, FDA Wants Info About Cessation Therapies
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Wednesday, December 19, 2018
The FDA rescheduled a public hearing to Jan. 18 to discuss i ...
- FDA Wants To Ban Menthol Cigarettes, Restrict Sales Of E-Cigs
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Friday, November 16, 2018
"The data show that kids using e-cigarettes are going to be mo ...
- DDB's Clark Resigns From Time's Up Advertising Leadership Council
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Thursday, October 18, 2018
The contretemps boiled over this week after reports that DDB hired T ...
- Coke And Football? Booze And Health? What Gives?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, September 14, 2018
Are brands conning the public with health activations, or is the publ ...