Reynolds Launches E-Mail Alert Feature

Published in Tobacco E-News Melissa Vonder Haar, Tobacco Editor WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —Today, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has announced a new feature on its Transform Tobacco website to immediately notify retailers, wholesalers and adult tobacco consumers when a tobacco-related issue arises in their state. Instead of checking the website, individuals can now sign up to receive electronic notifications via email […]

FDA: cigarette of the future could be non-addictive

By Deborah Kotz |  GLOBE STAFF The US Food and Drug Administration submitted plans several weeks ago to increase regulation of tobacco products including chewing tobacco, cigars, and likely electronic cigarettes — which produce a nicotine vapor that’s inhaled. While the agency hasn’t announced what those restrictions will be — since they’re being reviewed by the White […]

Hike in city cigarette tax will cut smoking, save lives, health chief says

BY FRAN SPIELMAN, City Hall Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s controversial plan to raise the city’s cigarette tax by 75-cents-a-pack will persuade 5,500 adults to quit smoking and 6,400 kids not to take their first puff, a top mayoral aide claimed Tuesday. Health Commissioner Dr. Bechara Choucair went on the offensive for the most […]

Legislation would add e-cigarettes to Minn. smoking ban

State Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, wants to clear up confusion about the use of electronic cigarettes by adding the so-called vaping devices to the statewide cigarette ban. She plans to introduce legislation in the 2014 session that would add e-cigarettes to the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act. “Right now, we’ve got a patchwork system where […]

E-cigarettes Turn Up in Schools

BY LAURIE WELCH – lwelch@magicvalley.com BURLEY, ID • Students have been sneaking off to the boys’ room to smoke since the advent of schools and the discovery of tobacco. But use of harder-to-detect electronic cigarettes is causing some educators and parents to worry. “Any parent should be worried about this. It’s one more thing out […]