The Vuse vapor brand announced a national expansion of Vuse Alto Golden Tobacco 5.0% and Alto Menthol 5.0% four-pod packs and the national release of Vuse Alto Golden Tobacco 2.4% and Alto Menthol 2.4% four-pod packs. The national availability of four-pod packs gives Vuse the most expansive portfolio of choice for adult vapor consumers with […]

Kaival Brands Innovations Group, the exclusive global distributor of all products manufactured by Bidi Vapor LLC, announced that it received a Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) filing letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its family of disposable e-cigarettes called Bidi Stick, which comes in 11 flavor varieties. The Filing Letter was the…

The Vuse vapor brand announced a national expansion of Vuse Alto Golden Tobacco 5.0% and Alto Menthol 5.0% four-pod packs and the national release of Vuse Alto Golden Tobacco 2.4% and Alto Menthol 2.4% four-pod packs. The four-pod packs provide adult vapor consumers with three Vuse Alto configuration options as they can now choose from…

The premarket tobacco application (PMTA) is the process by which tobacco-product manufacturers seek marketing authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It’s also a topic that’s generated confusion within the convenience store industry in recent years. To fully understand the PMTA process, one must go back to Feb. 15, 2007. According to the government,…

NIIN is a synthetic nicotine brand that’s introducing a new era of nicotine technology with its line of 100% tobacco-free synthetic nicotine pouches. Unlike the vast majority of nicotine pouches that are currently available, which contain generic tobacco-derived nicotine, NIIN pouches are made with Certified Tobacco-Free Nicotine (TFN). As such, they are completely free of […]

Kaival Brands Innovations Group Inc., the exclusive global distributor of all products manufactured by Bidi Vapor, announced that it received the FDA’s PMTA acceptance letter and notes the overall application is one step closer to meeting the agency’s baseline criteria for review before moving onto the final phase of the PMTA process. Bidi Vapor’s primary…

With the new year comes new challenges for retailers that sell tobacco products. Just like in 2020, key issues for retailers will encompass local, state and federal legislative and regulatory actions. Local Flavor Ban Ordinances In February 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made most flavored cartridge- and pod-type vaping products illegal. Then, in…

The overall tobacco category long has been a primary profit driver for convenience stores, but for years, there was limited product innovation. Then along came electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) such as e-cigarettes and vaping devices. Whereas ENDS offer combustible cigarette smokers an alternative experience, they don’t serve as a comparable substitute for smokeless tobacco…

While flavor bans and supply disruptions caused logistical headaches for retailers in the tobacco category, demand for cigars, vape and modified risk tobacco products (MRTP) chugged along in 2020, lifted by pandemic stay-at-home orders and cross-product consumers. Tobacco as a category steamed along at a healthy 4.2% rise in dollar sales for the 52 weeks…

A bipartisan coalition of 23 attorneys general has submitted a letter calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban menthol cigarettes. The coalition, led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, argued in the letter that a ban on menthol cigarettes would benefit public health overall, decrease youth…