- 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 of "well-documented, alarming levels of youth use of such products." ...
- 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 conditions including obstructive pulmonary disease, or smoker's lung. ...
- 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 followed by more fines, since 13 other states have sued Juul on similar charges. ...
- 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, while WHO says quitting tobacco in any form is the only healthful option. ...
- 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-cigarette space in violation of antitrust laws. ...
- 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, social posts, custom display banners and digital assets. ...
- Spotlight On Tobacco: Cigarette Sales Up In Pandemic, Vaping Declines
CPG FYI, Steve Ellwanger - Friday, February 5, 2021
How long the bottoming of cigarette sales will continue is anyone's guess, because it's dependent on so many variables. ...
- Taat Hemp-Based Cigarettes Ready To Roll In Ohio
CPG FYI, Steve Ellwanger - Friday, November 6, 2020
Former Philip Morris and Lorillard execs say they want to help people kick nicotine by switching them to cigarettes made from hemp. ...
- 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 a wide-ranging marketing campaign to try and grab a bigger share of the U.S. e-cigarette market. “Unit sales ...
- 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 ingest nicotine "without the chewing, spitting or odor" of traditional oral tobacco products. ...
- 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 as it grapples with falling e-cigarette market share and regulatory crackdowns. “The San Francisco company will cut between 8 ...
- 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 by teens, but menthol and tobacco-flavored ones remain on market. ...
- 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 to vpnMentor. ...
- 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 and misleading marketing of its e-cigarettes." ...
- 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 most often -- the remaining flavors, mint and menthol, are," according to "Ars Technica." ...
- Vaping Criticism: Is It Warranted?
CPG FYI, Steve Ellwanger - Friday, September 6, 2019
Vaping was thought to be responsible for recently reported mysterious lung afflictions. But was nicotine vaping to blame? Cannabis? Both? ...
- 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 tobacco has had considerable impact. ...
- 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 the agency, after its previous effort to implement pictorial warnings was quashed," according to report. ...
- 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 Juul, accusing it of using "unfair and deceptive" marketing practices to appeal to minors. ...
- 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 themselves, hawking tobacco knowing what a toxic and deadly product it is. ...
- 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 brand more. Instead, it's getting them to use it less. ...
- 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 its efforts to eliminate youth electronic cigarettes, with focus on the potential of drug therapies to support cessation. ...
- 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 more likely to try combustible cigarettes later," says FDA Commish. ...
- 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 Ted Royer to work on the agency's Volkswagen pitch. ...
- 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 public just forcing them to do good? ...
- Philip Morris On Its Shift To Being An 'Inside Challenger'
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, August 22, 2018
"Marketing Week" has an interesting article today on how tobacco firm Philip Morris International is positioning itself as an "inside challenger" aiming to secure a foothold in the growing "smoke-fre ...
- PMI's Cannes: Enlisting Adland's Help In Promoting Alternatives To Cigarettes
MAD, Larissa Faw - Friday, June 22, 2018
PMI said earlier this year it wants to phase out traditional cigarette production in favor of alternatives like e-cigarettes and wants creatives to help it craft messaging about the benefi ...
- Haberman Wins Anti-Smoking Account
MAD, Larissa Faw - Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Haberman will oversee marketing strategy and advertising responsibilities across all initiatives, inclusive of creative, media planning/buying, public relations, digital, social and content marketing. ...
- Cigarette Ads Coming Back To TV, Print
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, October 3, 2017
The good news is those ads are court-mandated, aren't designed to sell cancer sticks and probably won't be packed with lies. But it is advertising, so don't expect the who ...
- Blu Sells Vaping As 'Something Better'
Marketing Daily, Aaron Baar - Friday, September 29, 2017
An overarching video explaining the "Something better" ethos highlight some of the practical advantages over traditional smoking, including less money spent, no ash or smell and "your friends will fi ...
