C-store retailers are paying attention to premarket tobacco applications (PMTA) and the products that are and aren’t allowed on the shelf, including vape. This occurs while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposes bans on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, as well as extends regulatory authority over synthetic nicotine products. This may make retailers questions…

Outside of pump prices, few convenience store categories are subjected to external factors as extensively and frequently as tobacco, and now synthetic nicotine, too. Sure, supply chain shortfalls affect other in-store mainstays, but these sectors aren’t submitted to bans that limit product options, the possibility of excise tax hikes or advertising restrictions. Despite all the…

Ever since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was granted regulatory authority over combustible cigarettes with the 2009 Tobacco Control Act, there have been stirrings throughout the convenience store industry that the agency would withdraw market authorization for menthol cigarettes. It wasn’t until the FDA announced in January 2022 that it would revisit the possibility…

There have been several landmark decisions shaping the tobacco/nicotine category for convenience stores. The 2007 Tobacco Control Act granted the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) market authority over tobacco products. In 2016, the agency deemed vape products as tobacco products.  And with the passage of the omnibus budget bill in mid-March, Congress amended the definition of…

The FDA issued decisions on several Vuse Vibe and Vuse Ciro e-cigarette products on May 12. This includes the authorization of six new tobacco products through the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) pathway. The FDA issued marketing granted orders (MGO) to R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. for its Vuse Vibe e-cigarette device and accompanying tobacco-flavored closed…

On May 4, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published two new proposed tobacco product standard regulations in the Federal Register. A tobacco product standard regulation is a power granted to the FDA under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to reduce or eliminate an ingredient in a tobacco product or a constituent in…

Philip Morris International (PMI) announced a public cash offer of $16 billion to purchase Swedish Match. If accepted by shareholders, the offer would accelerate PMI’s transformation into becoming a smoke-free company and position it to lead that transformation in the industry, noted Jacek Olczak, CEO of PMI in a May 11 webcast. “This offer aims…

Proposed product standards to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and prohibit all characterizing flavors (other than tobacco) in cigars was announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These actions have the potential to significantly reduce disease and death from combusted tobacco product use, the leading cause of preventable death in…

On April 26, the FDA authorized four new NJOY Ace tobacco products through the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) pathway. The FDA issued marketing granted orders to NJOY LLC for its Ace closed e-cigarette device and three accompanying tobacco-flavored e-liquid pods, specifically: NJOY Ace Device NJOY Ace Pod Classic Tobacco 2.4% NJOY Ace Pod Classic Tobacco…

Loyal moist tobacco dippers overwhelmingly command the smokeless segment, but consumers are eagerly trying non-tobacco spitless pouches, which are driving sales with impressive double-digit growth as retailers consider expanding their offerings. While moist smokeless tobacco (MST) like loose snuff and pouches dominate in convenience stores with more than 80% of the segment, according to data…