Category: Media Coverage

New Tobacco Products

August 25, 2009  

By Alexis Wiley awiley@sbgnet.com Channel 6 Columbus Posted: Friday, August 21 2009, 05:02 PM EDT The American Lung Assoc. is taking aim at the tobacco industry, claiming companies are creating smokeless tobacco products that appeal to kids. Dissolvable tobacco products are being test marketed in Columbus. Columbus is one of only three test markets ... Read More

Blowing Smoke, Akron Beacon Journal Editorial

January 25, 2009  

Ohio receives a failing grade in preventing tobacco use Ohio scored an F on the American Lung Association's annual assessment of efforts to prevent and control tobacco use. Not much of a surprise there. In spite of the strides made in the past decade to reduce tobacco use, state legislators jeopardized ... Read More

Group Says State Not Spending Enough to Help Fight Smoking

January 18, 2009  

by Marc Kovac Capital Bureau chief Dix News Service (Stow Sentry) Columbus -- An anti-smoking group says Ohio is failing to provide adequate funding for cessation programs and that lawmakers need to do more to increase tobacco prevention and control. "Last year, lawmakers drastically cut funding for tobacco prevention and control, leading ... Read More

Video Shows Where Other Tobacco Products Should be Placed

December 2, 2008  

This video from Convenience Store News shows store owners where other tobacco products should be placed for optimum sales potential. This publication is telling retailers how to inundate people with marketing, including our children who go in convenience stories to buy candy, soda and snacks. Read More

R.J Reynolds Preps Dissolvable Tobacco (Brandweek)

October 8, 2008  

Reprinted from Brandweek By Mike Beirne R.J. Reynolds Tobacco will dive deeper into the smokeless category next year by nationally distributing Camel Snus and introducing in test markets dissolvable alternatives to cigarettes called Camel Sticks, Camel Orbs and Camel Strips. The new products, grouped under the Camel Dissolvables banner, are smokeless and spit-free; ... Read More

Flavors Add New Dimension to Tobacco (Convenience Store News)

May 28, 2008  

Reprinted from Convenience Store News A touch of fruit, a dash of mint and a pinch of mocha have hit the tobacco shelf. Manufacturers of one of the c-store channel's biggest sellers have injected flavors into smokeless tobacco, cigars and even some cigarettes. And for the most part, the products are ... Read More

Dental Experts Blast Tobacco Companies for Expanding Smokeless Product Lines, Urge Congress to Pass Bills Giving FDA Oversight of Tobacco Products (Business Wire)

April 30, 2008  

OKEMOS, Mich. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — New tobacco products being test marketed by U.S. tobacco companies will likely discourage users from quitting and will lure non-users, especially young people, to adopt a nicotine habit, warns Dr. Jed Jacobson, chief science officer of Delta Dental of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee (Delta ... Read More

New ‘snus’ taking on smoking ban (The Columbus Dispatch)

March 17, 2008  

By James Nash THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH It might have a funny-sounding name, but snus is no laughing matter to activists who led the 2006 campaign to ban smoking from public places across Ohio. Snus, a nugget of tobacco wrapped in a porous tissue, will be under the lips of thousands of ... Read More

The Impact of Tobacco Control Programs on Adult Smoking (American Journal of Public Health)

February 15, 2008  

February 2008, Vol 98, No. 2 Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that adult smoking remained constant at 20.8% from 2004 to 2005 after years of steady decline. The CDC study cited a 27% decline in funding for tobacco control programs from 2002 through 2006 ... Read More

Anti-smoking groups want tax on cigars, candy-flavored tobacco (Toledo Blade)

February 5, 2008  

Associated Press Columbus, Ohio - Anti-smoking forces upset over little cigars and candy-flavored tobacco marketed to kids said Tuesday they will push for a 55-percent tax on smokeless tobacco products. The Investing in Tobacco-Free Youth Coalition said when legislators raised the state cigarette tax in 2003 and 2005, they did not include ... Read More

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