his year's Tobacco Plus Expo International drew more than 2,400 attendees to Las Vegas.    As anticipated, the 2011 Tobacco Plus Expo International-which opened in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2-drew a record level of attendees. More than 2,400 attend...

Electronic cigarettes produced six-month abstinence rates better than those for traditional nicotine replacement products (NRT), according to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. In the study, 222 first-time purcha...

 Boston University Professor Michael Siegel, MD, MPH, is urging members of New York State Assembly not to pass legislation (Bill A01468) that would ban all e-cigarette sales. In a convincing letter written to the members of the NY State Assembly’s...

In November, The FDA released information about a proposed rule for text and graphic warning labels for cigarette packages and advertisements. A “Frequently Asked Questions” document about the proposed warnings explains that “Section 201 of the...

The current variations in excise taxes on tobacco products may be deterring consumers from switching to less harmful products, reports the nonprofit research group National Center for Policy Analysis. The group urges a policy of taxing smokeless p...

Texas will soon join the ranks of Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey and Utah as states where the legal age for using or purchasing tobacco products is 19 years old if newly proposed legislation passes. According to a recent article in the Star-Telegram,...

Manufacturers of menthol cigarettes advised the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco products scientific advisory committee against banning menthol cigarettes earlier this week, citing a recent study that said such a move would likely give rise ...

A recently launched ad campaign from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. suggests that consumers who are looking to quit smoking try its smokeless tobacco pouches, or snus, as a potentially helpful alternative that can help them break their smoking habit wi...

 On November 10, 2010, the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products issued the 140-page “Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisement: Proposed Rule”. It modifies the current package warning labels and requires color graphic warnings to acc...

In an op-ed published in The Daily Caller, Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, of the American Council on Science and Health, came to the defense of actress Katherine Heigl’s decision to use e-cigarettes as a safer, more effective method of kicking her smoking ...