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 Oct 31, 2025 TIM Alert
CIGARS
Al Capone recently advertised their cigarillos and leaf wraps in retailer focused magazines. The ad promotes a new 2-pack for their “Blues” cigarillos, and it also boasts about their position in the cigarillo market. Al Capone says that their products are the “fastest growing natural leaf cigarillos.”
ENDS
An ad for a Nixodine version of Fifty Bar disposable vapes was recently seen in a business-to-business magazine. The ad shows a nicotine warning label being ripped off the page, suggesting that the product is not subject to warning label requirements.