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 Mar 13, 2026 TIM Alert

ENDS

Geek Bar announced on Instagram that their new CLR model is now “officially available in the United States.” The website promises new flavors like Amazon Lemonade and Pineapple Savers.

MODERN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCTS

ALP nicotine pouches posted on Facebook and Instagram that they are now available in all Enmarket convenience stores, a chain with 134 stores located in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.