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.

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 May 8, 2026 TIM Alert

CIGARS

Swisher Sweets announced the first ever limited-edition blend from their Leaf series of cigars, “Neon Nights,” on Instagram. The post says that the blend will be released in May.

ENDS

Geek Bar announced the upcoming arrival of the Pulse X2 model on Instagram, the next generation of their popular Pulse X model. The product is set to release on May 11.