Already health warning publicity regarding smokeless tobacco is becoming more prominent, and advertising restrictions are being implemented.
Reynolds American is a play on smokeless tobacco, largely because of its acquisition in 2006 of Conwood.
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Continuing the ban on smokeless tobacco in the EU is antithetical to public health for many reasons.
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The Directive proposes to continue (indeed strengthen) the prior ban on Swedish smokeless tobacco, known as snus.
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The legislation also contains language preventing tobacco companies from saying that smokeless tobacco is less hazardous than cigarettes.
It had been known for almost a decade that switching from smoking to smokeless tobacco is a life-saver.
The risk of oral cancer from smokeless tobacco is low--far lower than the oral cancer risk from smoking cigarettes.
Volumes of its smokeless tobacco brands such as Copenhagen and Skoal rose about 3 percent compared with the year-ago period.
For the quarter, the company's smokeless tobacco brands had 55 percent of the market, which is tiny compared with cigarettes.
It helps Reynolds, the second largest U.S. cigarette maker, continue to drive profits as higher- margin smokeless tobacco growth offsets declining cigarette sales.
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Altria improved its situation with the acquisition of smokeless tobacco maker USD in early 2009, bringing USD brands Skoal and Copenhagen under its banner.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of October, 2009, gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) power to regulate smokeless tobacco products.
Oral cancers are the only important adverse health effect of smokeless tobacco, and they are relatively infrequent (about half as great as in smokers).
Jabeer Butt, Deputy Chief Executive of the Race Equality Foundation, hopes that the findings of the report will lead to better regulation of smokeless tobacco products.
Thanks to snus, moist smokeless tobacco in small pouches, Swedish men have the lowest smoking rate and the lowest rate of smoking-related disease and death in Europe.
Greenberg said UST is dominant in the smokeless tobacco business, which is an expanding part of total tobacco profits and growing at 6% to 7% this year.
Altria said reports that it will acquire UST are a whole lot of hot air, but the cigarette company may soon be dealing in smokeless tobacco as well.
Distancing itself as much as possible from the evils of puffing, the renamed U.S. Smokeless Tobacco shut the museum in 1998 and spat out most of its contents.
's first-quarter profit rose about 16 percent as it commanded higher prices for its cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products and it benefited from adjustments to a longstanding legal settlement.
If the bill passes, we won't replicate the good news coming out of Sweden, where tobacco-related deaths plummeted when smokers switched from cigarettes to the less harmful snus, or smokeless tobacco.
The smokeless tobacco division followed suit with strong OCI growth of 12% (yoy) led by its leading premium offerings of Copenhagen and Skoal both of which saw continued growth in their retail market shares.
Furthermore, despite Altria's current test market of moist smokeless tobacco products under the Marlboro brand, Nik Modi of UBS believes the company's ultimate entry into the growing MST market will come through an acquisition of UST.
That leaves it focused on the U.S. tobacco market, where it controls 49% of the retail cigarette market with its Marlboro, Virginia Slims, and Parliament brands, and 54.5% of the much smaller smokeless tobacco market with its Skoal and Copenhagen brands.
Undiversified tobacco companies stand to lose if there were a mass migration to smokeless products like Snus.
Altria has been looking hard for ways to get consumers to use tobacco without having to smoke it, and as a market leader in smokeless products, UST's attraction should be expected.
These are taking the form of things such as smokeless films that dissolve on the tongue, and flavored sucking sticks derived from highly purified tobacco.
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