Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco (CRST) will perform surveillance of tobacco product marketing, the tobacco product marketplace, and tobacco use behaviors, transforming tobacco surveillance to be rapid, comprehensive, and coordinated, with salient findings fed immediately into traditional data collection systems. By identifying and evaluating signals in a timely fashion, the CRST will generate critical actionable information about changes in tobacco products which can inform FDA’s regulation of tobacco products leading to a substantial public health impact.
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Tobacco Industry Monitoring (TIM) Alert
Tobacco Industry Marketing (TIM) Alerts provide weekly newsletters to subscribers to keep up to date with tobacco industry marketing and emerging tobacco products.
Excerpt from the Mar 28, 2025 TIM Alert
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Dutch Masters posted on Instagram about their event in partnership with designer Scotty ATL and musicians Bun B and Cory Mo at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.
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A product recently collected in Maine as part of CRST’s work monitoring products used in K-12 schools brought our attention to the availability of solar-powered disposable vapes by Solaris. Although this product may have been on the market for several months, it seems to be the only device available with this technology at the moment. The brand highlights the solar panel as an eco-friendly innovation, although the device can still be charged with a cord.