SmokingPipes.com: Uploading Profits
Smokingpipes.com primarily sells pipes and pipe tobacco. Pipe tobacco is considered to be a low-margin product, while pipes are generally more favorably marked up...
Acing FDA Age Verification Rules
Since the FDA’s deeming regulations went into effect on August 8, 2016, anyone selling tobacco products must verify that the purchaser is over 18...
Cigar Event ”Wow” Power
Ask top tobacco retailers to describe their current premium cigar business and you will hear words such as “growing,” “opportunity” and “comeback.” Ask about...
Promoting Pipe Tobacco
Pipe tobacco is still very much a popular category for retailers. The challenge, however, is how to make pipe tobacco products even more appealing...
Tobacco Road: Rolling with the Times
Remember the in-store RYO machine? All the rage about six years ago, the concept—retail shops where customers could roll their own cigarettes using high-speed...
Villiger Söhne AG: A Long-term Commitment
In an age where tobacco companies are under the attack of increasing regulations and anti-smoking movements, any company that manages to beat the odds...
The Virtue of a Legislative Record
April 15, 2011 marked a special moment in the political history of the premium cigar industry. It was the day U.S. Congressman Bill Posey...
The Measure of a Man: Remembering Avo Uvezian
Robert South, an English churchman known for his energetic preaching and Latin poetry, once wrote, “If there be any truer measure of a man...
The FDA’s First Product Standard: NNN in Smokeless Tobacco
When speaking at conferences in the past, Mitch Zeller, the director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products, has stated...
How to Launch a Successful Humidor Program
Whether you’re an established tobacconist or a retailer interested in expanding your store’s footprint, cigars and humidors are good investments. Despite government regulations impacting...
