The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement regarding implementation of the law raising the federal minimum purchase age for tobacco to 21. While the law is effective immediately, the FDA acknowledges that there is a transition period, and therefore, the agency will only use minors under 18 in its compliance checks. The FDA…
EC Wholesale Owners Charged With Trafficking Counterfeit TOP, JOB Cigarette Papers
Republic Tobacco announces that the owners and operators of EC Wholesale located on Dalton, Ga., Irafanali Nisarali Momin and Shiba I. Momin, also known as Saguftabanu F. Momin, were indicted on 39 federal criminal charges on Dec. 19, 2019 in the Northern District of Georgia. The Momins were charged with, among other crimes, allegedly conspiring…
Working Together to Make a Difference
Convenience store industry sales have posted solid gains over the past decade and, by all accounts, 2019 was another strong year. A lot of hard work, capital investments and employee training goes into making c-stores a destination for customers of all ages and backgrounds across the country. For most industries, this hard work would be…
Steve Sandman Appointed Pixotine Products COO
Steve Sandman has joined Pixotine Products as Chief Operating Officer (COO). A leader in the tobacco industry for over 30 years, Steve joined Republic Tobacco North America in 2007, becoming President/COO in 2012. Prior to that, Steve led Altadis Tobacco/Consolidated Cigar sales organization from 1999 to 2007 (before being acquired by Imperial Tobacco, now Imperial Brands…
Tobacco Turns 21
As customers prepared to welcome 2020, c-store retailers were watching legislation drop on tobacco products. The day before President Donald Trump signed the omnibus spending bill on Dec. 20 that raised the national tobacco minimum purchase age from 18 to 21, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) expressed dismay with the lack of a military exemption by…
Denver Company Helps ID Fake Vape Products
Cannabis design firm 14th Round hopes to boost consumer confidence, partners with solo sciences for cryptographic authentication tag with vaporizer brands Leading cannabis design and technology firm 14th Round has partnered with solo sciences to add its solo*CODE authentication tag to 14th Round’s vaporizer brands. The deal further advances solo’s efforts to address regulatory…
NATO Provides Free ‘We Card’ Resources
The National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO) announced that ‘We Card’ resources are available at no cost to assist retailers in complying with the new federal law that went into effect on Dec. 20, which raised the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21. Specifically, the four kinds of free resources for retailers are as…
FDA Bans Most Flavored E-Cigarettes
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an enforcement policy, effectively banning most flavors from unauthorized cartridge-based e-cigarettes until companies go through the premarket tobacco application (PMTA) process. The FDA said that companies that do not cease to manufacture, distribute and sell the flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes, excluding tobacco and menthol, in 30 days following the publication of…
Trump Says Flavored Vape Will be Temporarily Taken Off the Market
President Donald Trump has said the federal government will soon announce a new strategy for underage vaping, saying “certain flavors” would be taken off the market “for a period of time.” “We’re going to protect our families, we’re going to protect our children, and we’re going to protect the industry,” he said. The Wall Street…
FDA Enacts Federal Tobacco 21 Law
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially changed the federal minimum age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21, which applies to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vaping cartridges. The FDA website states that that law went into effect immediately but notes it will provide more information as it becomes available. The provision came…