Altria is also discontinuing UST's Rooster smokeless tobacco brand.
Skoal/Copenhagen Promotion..after March 28th..C-store update: Philip Morris $1.00 off promotion Skoal and Copenhagen... Although it is increasing prices on its cigarettes, Altria also plans to cut prices for Copenhagen and Skoal, the smokeless tobacco brands it acquired through its purchase of UST Inc. by 62 cents per tin, according to reports. Dow Jones reported Altria had been widely expected to cut some smokeless tobacco prices as UST's premium brands faced tough competition from cheaper competing products before the acquisition. Altria - Philip Morris to raise cigarette prices (as of March 9, 2009)..) We wonder if the current $1.00 promotion will end March 28th as planned or will it continue in addition to the 62 cents cut in price.Skoal's 75th anniversary - The Great Brotherhood Comeback.. - it looks like Altria will continue with promoting Skoal's 75th anniversary.. MORE COMING..
Camel SNUS -Latest c-store owner comment - this store is close to a community college. At one time a few cans of Camel SNUS did sell - just about all to students. Now the fellow tells us it hardly sells and the fellow just waits to get free cans from the Reynolds' salesperson.
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March 7, 2009 - R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said today that it will raise the list price on its cigarette brands in the range of 41 cents to 78 cents a pack for wholesale customers. The increase goes into effect March 16, 2009.
March 7, 2009 - Altria Group Inc., the largest U.S. tobacco company, will raise prices on Marlboro and 17 brands on March 9 ahead of an increase in federal tobacco excise taxes beginning April 1, 2009. Altrias Philip Morris USA will charge distributors 71 cents more for a pack of Marlboro, the top-selling U.S. cigarette, Parliament, Virginia Slims and six other varieties, said Bill Phelps, an Altria spokesman. In addition, the company will raise list prices on Bensen & Hedges and eight other brands by 81 cents a pack.
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March 4, 2009 - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee today rejected a Republican substitute to the FDA tobacco bill (Youth Prevention and Tobacco Harm Reduction Act) by a vote of 13 in favor and 34 opposed. The Republican amendment was offered by Rep. Steve Buyer of Indiana. Buyer's amendment would have created a new tobacco harm reduction center within the Department of Health and Human Services. The center would combine smoking cessation programs with industry strategies to reduce the harm from tobacco products, Republicans said. Aides to Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., said he may introduce a similar bill in the Senate.
March 4, 2009 - A proposed North Carolina state ban on smoking in public places passed its first test Tuesday, March 3, 2009 in a legislative committee. The North Carolina House Health Committee approved the measure on a voice vote with support from Rep. Bruce Goforth. Goforth switched his vote from 2007 when he was one of a minority of Democrats whose opposition kept a ban from passage on the House floor. (
March 3, 2009 - Alan Landers, who was known as the Winston Man, lost his battle with the lung disease just one month before he was due to testify in court against cigarette manufacturer RJ Reynolds. The 68-year-old had led a multi-million dollar crusade against the tobacco industry, four decades after he first appeared on billboards and in magazine adverts across the U.S. to promote cigarettes as cool. 
March 3, 2009 - New York Governor David Paterson has proposed to inflate the state's annual registration fee to sell tobacco at retail from the current $100 per store to $1,000 (annual gross sales of less than $1 million), $2,500 (annual gross sales of $1 million to $10 million) or $5,000 (annual gross sales of more than $10 million) depending on the store's gross sales of everything including motor fuel.
March 3, 2009 - Tobacco Free Florida Week: No ifs, ands or butts this week.
March 2, 2009 - The annual "Roger Award for Worst Transnational Corporation" operating in New Zealand has gone to British American Tobacco (BAT). The award, named after former finance minister and ACT Party co-founder Sir Roger Douglas and organised by the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa, was announced in Auckland tonight. 
March 1, 2009 - The 62-cent hike in the federal cigarette tax going into effect April 1 stands to make a significant dent in the wallets of smokers in Hickory, Morganton and Lenoir areas of North Carolina. This area according to the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey from 2007 is ranked 10th in the U.S. in adult smoking. 
March 1, 2009 - French researchers announced a striking 15% decrease in admissions of patients with myocardial infarction to emergency wards since the public ban on smoking came into effect in restaurants, hotels and casinos in France last January 1,2008. The announcement was made on 23 February by the National Sanitary Institute. 
