Retail Marketing
Tobacco companies spend billions of dollars each year marketing their deadly products in community stores. Through rigid contracts and substantial payments to stores, tobacco manufacturers ensure that retailers act as a conduit for Industry marketing. Consequently, ubiquitous retail marketing drives tobacco use by providing environmental cues to use tobacco, attracting new youth users, and triggering impulse purchases by users attempting to quit.
Learn more about the problem of retail tobacco marketing by viewing our resources below. For interventions that reduce exposure to tobacco marketing, visit our Point of Sale Policies page.
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In the absence of federal action, state and local governments continue to advance proposals to restrict the sale of harmful flavored tobacco products. https://kdvr.com/news/local/proposal-on-banning-flavored-tobacco-in-denver-advances/
Today, @CongressmanRaja sent letters to 2 manufacturers/sellers of synthetic nicotine products, seeking information about the companies & their sale of these products, which are unregulated by @FDATobacco. #ecigs #syntheticnicotine @CenterTobacco @cdoug https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2021-11-08-RK%20to%20Minas-Puff%20Bar%20and%20Schuman-Next%20Generation.pdf
Cigarette sales increased in 2020 for the first time in two decades, with #mentholcigarettes representing more than a third of the market. Menthol products also made up more than half of smokeless tobacco sales. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-report-finds-annual-cigarette-sales-increased-first-time-20