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How popular are oral nicotine pouches and lozenges?

In the face of declining cigarette sales and expanding restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes, some tobacco companies are rapidly expanding their oral nicotin

THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY AND THE RETAIL ENVIRONMENT

Tobacco companies rely on the retail environment to reach both current and future customers by advertising their products and normalizing the presence of tobacco products in everyday life. The tobacco industry spends nearly $1 million per hour on marketing tobacco products in the retail environment, and it works - when discounts and promotions are advertised in stores, tobacco product sales go up by as much as 30%.

Learn more about the tobacco retail environment in the sections below or read the full report.

Where we stand: Little cigars, cigarillos and cigars

Truth Initiative lays out the policies it supports with respect to little cigars, cigarillos and cigars

Flavored Tobacco Policy Resources

Tobacco is a Social Justice Issue

Enterprise Tobacco Cessation Programs

Not Buying It: The Tobacco Industry's Rebrand

Inaction in the face of opportunities to ban menthol cigarettes

Recent efforts to push for a federal menthol cigarette ban have brought together truth® and DoSomething.org to enlist youth to urge the FDA to enact such a b

Truth Campaign snags 2 Ogilvy Awards

truth® won two Advertising Research Foundation David Ogilvy Awards for its truth campaign inspiring youth to end tobacco use, including a Gold in the New Aud

truth® campaign prevents more than 300,000 young people from smoking in one year

An estimated 301,930 youth and young adults did not become smokers over the course of one year because of the truth campaign.

Q&A: How to train emerging activists to support a social movement

Enlisting youth and young adults is an important part of igniting and sustaining social movements. But how can you help emerging activists be effective?

E-cigarette industry spends millions on discounts and sampling, practices that help recruit young users

Price incentives like discounts, coupons, and sampling can undercut the impact of excise taxes and other proven effective tobacco control measures