Cigarettes havelong been a staple at U.S.convenience stores, accounting for billions in pack and carton sales andboosting the profits from the average smoker's market basket.For2012, total cigarette sales in convenience stores totaled more than $52billion, down a slight 1.68%. Units sold slipped 2.05% to 8.75 billion.Whilesales may be down, the value of cigarette customers to the convenience sto...

Hailed by manyas an emerging threat to the tobacco cigarette industry, electronic cigaretteshave provided smokers with an alternative to traditional tobacco-based smoking.These battery-operated devices simulate the experience of traditional cigarettesmoking by supplying the user with a nicotine delivery system, the appearanceof smoke upon exhalation and the hand to mouth familiarity of smoking, ...

There have been quite a few studiesdonethat have shown that electronic cigarettes are safer thantraditionalcigarettes that burn tobacco and require you to inhale harmful smoketo getyour nicotine. So, while nothing in life is entirely safe, electroniccigarettesare known to be safer than normal cigarettes – or old cigarettes asthee-smokers call them.