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 Oct 30, 2026 TIM Alert

CIGARS

Swisher Sweets announced in an email that their products are now available to order through GoPuff, a shopping delivery service.

MODERN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCTS

Nicokick, an online retailer for oral nicotine products, announced on its Instagram page that nicotine pouch excise taxes will be covered for consumers from New York and Texas from October 26-30. State excise taxes for nicotine pouches are 75% of the wholesale price in New York and $1.46 for products weighing less than 1.2 oz (i.e., for most nicotine pouches), or $1.22 per ounce for products weighing at least 1.2 oz.