Former Philip Morris and Lorillard execs say they want to help people kick nicotine by switching them to cigarettes made from hemp. ...

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 ...

The on! brand of nicotine pouches is marketed as way to ingest nicotine "without the chewing, spitting or odor" of traditional oral tobacco products. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Email address, gender and date of birth were also exposed, according to vpnMentor. ...

Both states are suing Juul for targeting young people with "deceptive and misleading marketing of its e-cigarettes." ...

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 was thought to be responsible for recently reported mysterious lung afflictions. But was nicotine vaping to blame? Cannabis? Both? ...

CVS has been collecting evidence that its five-year-old ban on selling tobacco has had considerable impact. ...

"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. ...

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. ...

Brilliant move, CVS. I wonder how agency executives can live with themselves, hawking tobacco knowing what a toxic and deadly product it is. ...

Sometimes a marketer's biggest problem isn't getting teens to use a brand more. Instead, it's getting them to use it less. ...

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. ...

"The data show that kids using e-cigarettes are going to be more likely to try combustible cigarettes later," says FDA Commish. ...

The contretemps boiled over this week after reports that DDB hired Ted Royer to work on the agency's Volkswagen pitch. ...

Are brands conning the public with health activations, or is the public just forcing them to do good? ...

"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 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 will oversee marketing strategy and advertising responsibilities across all initiatives, inclusive of creative, media planning/buying, public relations, digital, social and content marketing. ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the new campaign, anti-smoking group truth says 33% of adults with mental-health conditions smoke, compared to 21% of those without mental-health conditions. The Marines have the highest rate ...

The antismoking advocacy group truth is out with a new campaign from 72andSunny that highlights what it calls the profiling tactics of the tobacco industry. The new campaign, titled, #STOPPROFILIN ...

British American Tobacco this morning agreed to pay $49.4 billion for the 58% of Reynolds American Inc. it does not already own, making it the second-largest tobacco company in t ...

Two dozen e-commerce sites received warnings from the FDA for allegedly selling e-cigarettes to minors younger than 18. ...

Two new spots from 72andSunny airing in the upcoming Video Music Awards on MTV focus on the economics of smoking and how buying cigarettes can impact the wallet in wa ...

With studies showing a large increase in vaping among teens, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe and hookah tobacco ...

The number of teenagers using e-cigarettes tripled between 2013 and 2014 as the use of as cigarettes among them declined, according to data published yesterday by the Centers for Disea ...