May 27th, 2013
The Local (France0
The French government could be set to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and at work because of health precautions, it emerged on Monday. The ban threat comes as the nicotine-filled ‘vaporisers’ experience a boom in sales in France.
After France’s 2008 ban on traditional cigarettes in the workplace, smokers who have turned to the electronic ‘vaporiser’ shouldn’t get too comfortable puffing away in the office, according to reports on Monday.
May 19th, 2013
Convenience Store News
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — For the past several years, tobacco companies have been looking to fill the hole left by struggling cigarette sales with new products. Those efforts have stalled as their applications sit waiting for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
That is about to change, however. Mitch Zeller, director of the agency’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), told the attendees at the 98th annual Tobacco Merchants Association meeting that it will move quickly to work through the backlog of approximately 3,500 applications submitted by tobacco companies — for both new products and changes to existing ones, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
May 3rd, 2013
New York Magazine
When Philip Morris introduced Marlboro cigarettes in 1924, the ads, far from showing a rugged horseman in some sage-strewn arroyo, depicted a sophisticated modern woman. The cigarettes featured an “ivory tip” to “protect the lips”—or a red one, to hide lipstick stains—and were marketed under the slogan “Mild As May.” For the next 30 years, Marlboro was known as a lady’s cigarette.
