Information on the Tobacco industry

The Show that means business for all those in the tobacco business. It’s @ the Las Vegas Convention Center, March 3rd & 4th 2010. Who’s going? Report back! Tell us what was good? What was new? What you learn? Have a great time! – See you at the show!

Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. announced that it filed a patent infringement lawsuit recently in the United States District Court against Astra Tobacco Corporation, Delfort Group and German groups Julius Glatz, GmbH, and LIPtec, GmbH, over alleged infringement of their US patent number 6,725,867 for low ignition propensity cigarette paper.
Astra Tobacco is the sales and marketing company for Delfort group in the [...]

Hauni Maschinenbau AG acquired Sodim SAS from Imperial Tobacco Group Plc on February 2 2010.
The  sale by Imperial is no great surprise as Sodim clearly did not represent core business activities and was probably slated for sale soon after Imperial acquired Altadis.
In a press release Sodim reiterated its personnel, biz relationships, and location remain unaffected. 
Perhaps of greater interest are the potential [...]

In an historic first for public health, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) of the UK’s National Health Service overwhelming approved tobacco harm reduction as a key component in England’s ten year plan to reduce cigarette smoking by half.  The US FDA should follow the UK’s lead.  The announcement and a news excerpt are below, the press release is attached, and [...]

I had the privilege of starting the FDA registration process recently for a tobacco client and thought it worth sharing my experiences.
All the information on what needs to be done including a check list is available on the FDA website. This is helpful; at least there’s a template to work from.
What’s missing is exactly how to do it. [...]

Liggett group’s general counsel sent a letter to FDA protesting the nomination process representing small tobacco businesses.
FDA has previously made clear that only small manufacturers could vote / nominate a representative to their category. Liggett contends this was not intended in the legislation and they should have some say under a broader definition of a small [...]

In a recent interview with ECigaretteDirect.co.uk Carl Phillips, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, told us that the electronic cigarette was an order of magnitude safer than regular cigarettes and that an FDA study into the electronic cigarette was “pure propoganda”.
The electronic cigarette carried, he estimated, around one percent of the risk [...]

If you call the Marlboro # you get someone reading what the FSC is. Nothing more, nothing less.  I am definitely going to look into rolling  my own cigarettes. You guys are right.