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Before you know it this major Industry Trade show will be upon us and in a flash – gone.
The organizers are working hard to make it successful for all visitors.
Exhibitors can have reasonble expectation of not only a good quantity of visitors but a good level as well.
The Show will run concurrenlty with a topical Congress.

At Tobacco Today we are interested to promote a dialogue from all stakeholders aimed at soliciting comments, suggestions and advice from all aspects of the industry – to make the show better and to focus the organizer’s on what the industry is expecting.

We look forward to receiving your comments and creating a lively diaglogue.

When is enough, enough? My good friend Terry Gallagher is being attacked based on his livelihood. He is a great man! His value to his community is not matched by many. Last time I checked tobacco was still legal. Enough with my opinion. Read the attached article and let your thoughts be known!

http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_14993095#axzz0mo2Jx7bn

Found this article to be very interesting. Wanted to pass it on. What do you think? I think I have seen many of these folks in my lifetime. Post your thoughts!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/24/social.smokers/index.html?hpt=C2

Star Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CIGX) announced that on Friday, February 19 the company filed an application with the Food & Drug Administration for approval to market Ariva-BDL™ as a “modified risk” tobacco product under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009. This submission is the first such application to be filed with the Tobacco Products Center of the FDA, which has been established to oversee all aspects of tobacco regulation outlined in the 2009 Act.

What are your thoughts?

Have you tried the “NEW” Ariva product?

Any expectations of others to follow Star’s lead.

Will the process work? Is harm reduction going to work?

PR Newswire Feb 22 2010 BDL Filing

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 of regular cigarettes.

While he acknowledged that the electronic cigarette carried traces of carcinogens, he pointed out that banning the electronic cigarette based on the very low levels of carcinogens contained within would also mean “banning half the foods available.”

Given that, he argued, the FDA’s stance on the electronic cigarette was motivated by propoganda and not by science.

You can read the full interview here: Electronic Cigarette Interview with Carl Phillips.

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.

So who will actually be selected for the key roles of deciding, among other things, whether menthol stays on the US market?  The FDA gave the industry until September 25th to name individuals for the three non-voting slots on its Scientific Advisory Board and then gave itself another 30 days, until October 24th, to send letters to those organizations telling them if they won a slot.  So I guess we will know pretty soon who these “deciders” will be.