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TOBACCO BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL
MAY/JUNE 2014
NEWS & TRENDS
MAY/JUNE 2014
TMA Hosts 99th Annual Meeting
Highlights will include a presentation by Center for Tobacco
Products Director Mitch Zeller. The following speakers will
also be featured: Drs. David Abrams, K. Michael Cummings,
Scott Leischow, Riccardo Polossa, Konstantinos Karsali-
nos, Chris Bullen, Joel Nitzkin, Gil Ross, Jonathan Foulds,
Corinne Husten and Michael Siegel. The event will also
include seminars by top security analysts, e-cigarette execu-
tives, and tobacco industry representatives.
Attendees will also participate in celebrations of the
lifetime achievements of Bill Griewe of Cheyenne Tobacco,
Marvin Coghill of Alliance One, and Joel Sherman of Nat
Sherman. The schedule will be as follows:
• May 19: Deeming Regulations and Substantial
Equivalence Case Studies
• May 20: Evidence-Based Science and FDA
Tobacco Regulation
• May 21: The Nicotine Industry Today
• May 22: Nicotine Delivery and the Mission of
Tobacco Control
For detailed information, registration forms, and agenda
updates, go to tma.org or call TMA at 609-275-4900.
TMA will host its 99th annual meeting and conference on “Evidence-Based Science, Electronic
Cigarettes and Tobacco Harm Reduction” on May 19-22, 2014 at the Kingsmill Resort in Wil-
liamsburg, Virginia.
Call For Drug Chains to Eliminate
Tobacco Products May Benefit Other Channels
Following CVS Caremark’s February
announcement to cease such sales of
tobacco products, attorneys general
from 28 U.S. states and territories sent
a letter to the five largest retailers in
the U.S.—Kroger, Rite Aid, Safeway,
Walgreens and Walmart—requesting
each of them to voluntarily halt tobacco
product sales in their retail outlets that
contain pharmacies. Commenting on
the letter, Bonnie Herzog, an analyst at
Wells Fargo Securities, suggested the
effort, if successful, will be a boon to
other retail channels. “[Smokers] will
simply go to other retailers, such as
convenience stores, dollar stores and
tobacco shops,” adding that “this is a
positive for convenience stores, espe-
cially if more drug retailers follow suit
and discontinue sales of tobacco prod-
ucts,” wrote Herzog.
