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...

Condoms with nicotine-infused lubricant? Why not? Most smoking-cessation devices just aren’t cool ... you have to wear a huge patch, chew nasty-tasting gum, or puff on electronic vapor cigarettes. Too, the after-sex cigarette is hardly romantic to...

On December 20, 2010, the New Jersey State Senate passed bill #N10-S.2175, which it substituted for the State Assembly’s bill #N10-A.3102. The two bills are identical, and put a new tool into the hands of the state, in its battle to stop illicit c...