October 7, 2010 - Kretek International, Inc., (kretek - crackling sound of burning cloves) leading importer and marketer of specialty tobacco products announced the national rollout of a new line of CIG2O (sig-two-oh) e-cigarette products. The line of competitively priced CIG2O e-cigarettes was successfully launched in smoke shops early in 2010. The strength of adult consumer response, plus stated preference during research studies, led to the current nationwide roll-out to c-stores and other channels, says the company.
Starting on September 22, 2009, based on the on the new tobacco law, HR 1256 The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, it was illegal to sell cigarettes flavored with cloves, fruit – anything but menthol. The new FDA law prohibits cigarettes with a characterizing flavor other than tobacco or menthol, but cigars are not covered by the new FDA ban.
Kretek International (KI), the nation's top distributor of clove cigarettes (97 percent of U.S. market) is offering fans a new way to get their fix after the spice-flavored cigarettes are banned - the New Clove Cigars..
The new filtered cigars—close to the size of a cigarette and flavored with clove, vanilla and cherry—allow KI, which imports Djarum-brand tobacco products from Indonesia, to avoid new federal laws banning flavored cigarettes other than menthol.
Clove cigars close but not cigarettes..;
Kretek International drops FDA lawsuit on clove cigars...
For further information CIG2o. Flavors include marbro, camelz, coffee, chocolate, grape, raspberry but not clove.
When is the US FDA going to permanently start regulating e-cigarettes..
Reference: Kretek Rolls Out Premium E-Cigarette by TOB (Tobacco Outlet Business), 10/6/2010.
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October 7, 2010 - Back on June 16, 2000 we reported Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) planned to appeal a Colombian regulator's decision to deny its $452 million bid to acquire privately owned cigarette maker Productora Tabacalera de Colombia, or Protabaco.
October 7, 2010 - A new survey has given Australia another reason to malign smokers - they are to blame for most of Australia's litter. 
October 6, 2010 - The International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project has published 11 academic papers covering various aspects of tobacco cessation in a special issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research Volume 12 suppl 1 October 2010.
October 6, 2010 - ALOR SETAR (
“Thirty percent or 3,900 of our 13,000 department personnel are smokers. As staff representing a health department, they should act as role models. Thus, I hope that they will quit smoking,” he told newsmen after attending the state-level World Heart Day celebration here yesterday.celebration here yesterday. He said that more than 16,000 people received treatment for heart problems in the state and the smoking habit was cited as one of the causes of the illness.
October 6, 2010 - Giving up smoking can dramatically improve flagging sex lives, according to a study conducted by a Hong Kong university.
October 6, 2010 - Tobacco control experts are calling for additional research on reducing the nicotine content of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Nicotine reduction, they wrote in an article published online October 1 in Tobacco Control, has the potential to profoundly affect smoking rates in the United States, but many outstanding questions remain and will require a focused and collaborative research effort.
October 5, 2010 - The 
October 5, 2010 - On Monday, October 4th, Swedish Match (SM) and Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) announce the creation of a global company with leading market positions in cigars, pipe tobacco and fine cut tobacco.
October 5, 2010 - Yesterday, October 4th the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Seneca Nation cigarette merchant Scott B. Maybee, who asked the justices to overturn a lower-court ruling that he must obey Idaho laws regulating tobacco sales.
October 5, 2010 - This is the first time India has hosted the Commonwealth Games, the world’s third largest multi-sports event, after the Summer Olympics and Asian Games.
October 4, 2010 - Tobacco companies are being accused of skirting highly publicized federal legislation -- announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- designed to keep kids from getting hooked on flavoured cigarettes. Importers of those little cigarillos that come in flavours like vanilla, strawberry and peach have changed the size and characteristics on their product in order to get them in the country.
tober 4, 2010 - For the sixth consecutive year, Swedish Match is launching an exclusive snus in a limited edition. Kardus is described as the snus for connoisseurs: ‘[p]robably the world’s most exclusive – and expensive – snus’, according to a note posted on the company’s website.
October 4, 2010 - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a national anti-tobacco program for 2010-2015 as part of the government's strong push to dramatically bring down the number of cigarette smokers in Russia. The recommendations of the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which Russia ratified in April, are now fully reflected in this country's anti-tobacco laws.
October 4, 2010 - The American Lung Association (ALA) recently released a new study emphasizing that helping smokers quit not only saves lives but also offers economic benefits to states. Penn State University researchers provided a nationwide cost-benefit analysis comparing the costs to society of smoking with the economic benefits of states offering cessation coverage.
October 3, 2010 - The causes of adolescent substance use are multifactorial, but the media can play a key role. Tobacco and alcohol represent the 2 most significant drug threats to adolescents. More than $25 billion per year is spent on advertising for tobacco, alcohol, and prescription drugs, and such advertising has been shown to be effective.
October 3, 2010 - The United States (U.S.) Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) have ruled that the proprietor of a retail establishment who is in the business of making cigarettes for others, or who facilitates the making of cigarettes by or for others by providing the use of a commercial cigarette-making machine at its premises is engaged in the business of a tobacco products manufacturer and must qualify for and obtain a permit from TTB to engage in such business.
