The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products – that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine – could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults. The FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products wrote to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Camel cigarettes, and the smaller Star Scientific Inc. on Monday voicing concern over smokeless products that are consumed like breath mints but made from finely milled tobacco. ... read more >>
Posts Tagged ‘Flavored Tobacco’
FDA concerned dissolvable tobacco appeals to kids
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Setting down their cigarettes, teenagers take up the hookah
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Ryan Baucom, the co-owner of a downtown Sarasota nightspot that caters to the 18-25 crowd, has turned to an old custom to attract young customers. At The Box Social club, Baucom recently started renting out a hookah. Business is so good he plans to buy another. “It’s becoming more and more popular,” he said. In higher numbers than those who frequently smoke cigarettes, teenagers are trying hookahs: water pipes from the Middle East that use coals to burn flavored tobacco. ... read more >>
Ryan Baucom, the co-owner of a downtown Sarasota nightspot that caters to the 18-25 crowd, has turned to an old custom to attract young customers. At The Box Social club, Baucom recently started renting out a hookah. Business is so good he plans to buy another. “It’s becoming more and more popular,” he said. In higher numbers than those who frequently smoke cigarettes, teenagers are trying hookahs: water pipes from the Middle East that use coals to burn flavored tobacco. ... read more >>
Hookah Bliss Owner Will Defy Smoking Ban
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The owner of a Chapel Hill hookah bar says he will defy the state’s new smoking ban that has ensnared his business but exempted other types of smoking establishments. Adam Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss, believes the ban is discriminatory. He will continue to sell hookahs and alcohol beginning Jan. 2, the day it becomes illegal to smoke in most North Carolina bars and restaurants. ... read more >>
The owner of a Chapel Hill hookah bar says he will defy the state’s new smoking ban that has ensnared his business but exempted other types of smoking establishments. Adam Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss, believes the ban is discriminatory. He will continue to sell hookahs and alcohol beginning Jan. 2, the day it becomes illegal to smoke in most North Carolina bars and restaurants. ... read more >>
Hookah lounge to open on Evansville’s East Side
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Business partners Khaled Elkhal and Mohammed Metoui plan to bring a hookah lounge to 519 N. Green River Road for reflecting on the ancient hookah smoking practice, which originated in India and spread across the Middle East. ... read more >>
Business partners Khaled Elkhal and Mohammed Metoui plan to bring a hookah lounge to 519 N. Green River Road for reflecting on the ancient hookah smoking practice, which originated in India and spread across the Middle East. ... read more >>
31st Street neighbors wary of hookah bar
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
NEWARK — Although thoughts about a potential hookah lounge on 31st Street are mixed, most of the neighbors are of a single mind: They don’t want it. ... read more >>
NEWARK — Although thoughts about a potential hookah lounge on 31st Street are mixed, most of the neighbors are of a single mind: They don’t want it. ... read more >>
Hookah lounge hopes to open in Newark by Oct. 30
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
NEWARK– Two local men hoping to build a hookah lounge in Newark received approval from the Newark Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday to continue the project. ... read more >>
NEWARK– Two local men hoping to build a hookah lounge in Newark received approval from the Newark Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday to continue the project. ... read more >>
Bay Area hooked on hookah
Monday, October 19th, 2009
On a recent Friday night in Palo Alto, three young women sat at a sidewalk table outside an old brick building that once housed Mills the Florist, a shop that has gone up in smoke. In its place is Da Hookah Spot, a lounge where people gather to puff flavored tobacco from a water pipe for hours at a time. ... read more >>
On a recent Friday night in Palo Alto, three young women sat at a sidewalk table outside an old brick building that once housed Mills the Florist, a shop that has gone up in smoke. In its place is Da Hookah Spot, a lounge where people gather to puff flavored tobacco from a water pipe for hours at a time. ... read more >>
The Angry Few Who Oppose the FDA’s Ban on Flavored Tobacco
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Yesterday, as word spread that the FDA banned candy-flavored tobacco, policy experts cheered the news and cigarette makers condemned it. About what you’d expect. Rather than rehash the standard fare, the Atlantic Wire went beyond the usual commentators to find the folks directly impacted–those who actually smoke strawberry cigarettes (or have moms who do). Here’s who cares and what they think: ... read more >>
Yesterday, as word spread that the FDA banned candy-flavored tobacco, policy experts cheered the news and cigarette makers condemned it. About what you’d expect. Rather than rehash the standard fare, the Atlantic Wire went beyond the usual commentators to find the folks directly impacted–those who actually smoke strawberry cigarettes (or have moms who do). Here’s who cares and what they think: ... read more >>
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