Five Ways to Move Past the Freeze
By know you know that running your stogie business on what’s new isn’t going to cut it moving forward, thanks to the halt on...
EAS Announces Cue Vapor System
E-Alternative Solutions has signed a multi-year marketing and distribution agreement to exclusively market a revolutionary new system in the U.S.
E-Alternative Solutions (EAS) announces the...
FDA Deeming Regulations: What They Mean for Your Store
Five months after the FDA’s deeming regulations were released, there are still a lot of questions and much confusion around what they mean for...
Sizing Up the Sampling Ban
1. What is a free sample?
The FDA defines a free sample as a tobacco product that does not cost the recipient anything. In other...
Marijuana Goes Mainstream
He classifies himself as a "middle-of-the-road doper" who never saw marijuana as being taboo. And now that it's less taboo, he is a marijuana...
E-Alternative Solutions: Ready for Vapor Regulation
Tobacco Business just happened to catch up with Jacopo D'Alessandris, president of E-Alternative Solutions (EAS), on the momentous day of Aug. 8, 2016–the first...
Sparking Innovation
The new CTS line of e-vaping systems from Spark Vapor Brands offers four new closed-tanks system devices from Vapage and Cig2o that deliver a...
Cannabis Rising: Chatting with Cheech Marin
Love of the leaf was central to the comedy of Cheech & Chong, the duo whose comedic albums and movies are widely credited with...
Walgreens Pressured to Bail on Cigarettes
At press time, Deerfield, Illinois-based Walgreens was deep in the throes of a battle over whether a proposal for the chain to stop selling...
Judge Rules on Label Changes
In August, Federal Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot consider a label revision for a tobacco...