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 Jan 23, 2026 TIM Alert

CIGARETTES

Natural American Spirit announced via direct email and on the brand's website that new pack designs will be available this July. The new designs were voted on by Spirit Circle community members.

CIGARS

Dutch Masters revealed on the brand’s Instagram page that they are bringing back Vanilla flavor cigarillos for a limited time.