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 16, 2026 TIM Alert

CIGARS

Swisher Sweets has recently promoted a new cigar blend in retailer-focused magazines. The new blend is an unflavored one called Dark Aromatic, and it will be a part of their Leaf line of cigars. Swisher Sweets says the new blend is a way for retailers to hop on the trend of “non-flavored rough cuts” that are driving profits.

ENDS

Juul recently announced in a direct email that limited edition Emerald devices are available through 7-Eleven, Speedway, and Cal's chain stores.