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The specialty cigarette category has been enjoying a recent whiff of popularity with a demographic somewhat new to the CTS market. New flavored and additive-free, natural cigarettes are taking over [...]

The CTS industry has come to a crossroads in the premium-cigar segment. Retailers today are finding a whole new customer base for premium cigars -- cigar smokers who either can't [...]

The Dutch cigar industry accounts for some 70% of global cigar exports, although worldwide consumption is declining. In the Netherlands, cigar consumption in 1993 totalled 30 pieces per head, against 31 pieces in 1992. The decrease in volume sales in the Netherlands is offset by the smoking of better-quality cigars, thus allowing Dutch manufacturers to improve their proift margins. The Dutch cigar industry is developing a variety of new products in the premium sector. Europe's biggest cigar producer, Ebas, has launched a new panatella product and also revamped its Willem II brand.

The discovery of fire was one of the most important innovations of civilization. It warmed the body, cooked the food and kept predators at bay. Of equal importance was the [...]

When shopping for a car, you could settle for a vehicle with just the standard options. It's practical, less expensive and still gets you from Point A to Point B. [...]

Sweet vanilla, black cherry and chocolate are back, and CTS industry insiders are trumpeting the return of a favorite and improved segment. Consumers have a taste for flavored cigars, again. [...]

What a difference tobacco accessories make. Look around at some of the more sophisticated tobacco enthusiasts gracing cafe tables and wine bars and you'll be amazed at the type of [...]

Brian Levine understands the interest in pipes. He understands the needs of the pipe smoker and the demands of the consumer. He understands the growth of the pipe-tobacco business. That's [...]

The CTS accessory is a segment often underrated by the unschooled CTS retailer. Savvy retailers, however, know the true profitability potential of these products. It is undeniable that these products [...]

In many ways, it sounds like a living-room conversation in a frat house. 'Hey man, can I bum a smoke?' 'Roll your own. Don't laugh. Those three words--roll your own--are [...]

It's an image etched into the American psyche, the rider on horseback in the Old West rolling a cigarette between his fingers as the sun sets in the background -- [...]

The Shanghai Cigarette Factory, run by the China National Tobacco Corp. (CNTC), is the production centre for some of China's best-known cigarette brands, including Panda and Double Happiness. The factory produces around 45 billion of the 1.54 trillion cigarettes produced each year in China. The CNTC intends to focus cigarette production on 18 key facilities, of which Shanghai is one, and by 1997 will build a new, state-of-the-art factory adjacent to the existing site, which will be redeveloped. Meanwhile, the Shanghai factory is being modernised with new advanced western machinery.

'JT Roots Live Body Cafe Au Lait,' from Japan Tobacco, is a canned cafe au lait which features a rich milk flavor and sharp slight acidity as a result of [...]

Japan Tobacco has launched three items in the commercial-use frozen food Chinese Series. Hanten Ebi Gyoza is a potsticker that contains fresh shrimp and bamboo shoots and is good for [...]

.... FDA has declared nicotine lollipops illegal and has warned pharmacies selling the hot-selling candies through the internet that it does not consider the lollipops to be approved drags. It [...]

In the launch announcement for 'less toxic' Advance cigarettes, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. quotes Sharon Boyse, its director of applied research. She says, 'While there is no such thing […]

The tobacco industry is exploring new venues to expand upon its core base of consumers as opinions about smoking become more disputed. U.S. Smokeless is on a mission to make [...]

In response to consumer requests, Natural American Spirit Ultra Light Filter Cigarettes are now available in hinge-lid hard packs. The new hinge-lid packaging, which features a yellow-and-white gradation and the [...]

Swisher International has added two new programs to its cigar offering. Furthering its popular Outlaws line of Swisher Sweets, Swisher has introduced Double Barrel Rum-Flavored Outlaws, which have been double-dipped [...]

Flavored cigars stimulate the plate as well as the bottom line These ain't your daddy's cigars. In the aftermath of the cigar Boom, which took of in the early 1990s, [...]

Republic Tobacco L.P. has introduced Gambler Cigarette Tobacco packaged in a 6-ounce resealable bag. Gambler, a value-priced premium American blend, is suitable for hand or machine rolling as well as [...]

Evidence for the need to control smoking in the workplace is given in a study in Occupational Research and Environmental Medicine this week, which shows that non-smokers forced to breathe [...]

No Smoking Day is held every year on the second Wednesday of March. This year's event, on March 14, is the 18th, and uses a catchline first rolled out in [...]

Don Herman flavored cigars are as distinct in their look as they are smooth on your palette. Their unique Dominican blend, full flavor and size, make them popular with the [...]

PETERSBURG, VA.--Star Scientific test markets Advance, a cigarette with reduced carcinogens, in Richmond ,Va., and Lexington, Ky. The smokes are made with tobacco specially processed to reduce nitrosamines, among the [...]

Smokers who quit have a chance to win #5,000 and supporters #500, as part of the fourth international Quit & Win competition. The No Smoking Day organisation is promoting the [...]