TMA's Mission

The Tobacco Merchants Association (TMA) was founded in 1915 to manage information of vital interest to the worldwide tobacco industry. TMA is supported by virtually all companies in the following sectors: cigarette, cigar, pipe and chewing tobacco, snuff, and leaf tobacco, as well as industry suppliers, securities analysts, advertising agencies, management consultants, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, importers & exporters, and others who value rapid delivery of critical information. Today, the TMA continues to function as a trade association and remains dedicated to supplying factual information to a variety of companies, associations, and other organizations, whose livelihoods depend upon timely, comprehensive and accurate data about the global tobacco business.

TMA's data bank is drawn from over 10,000 domestic and international sources and is constantly updated through a collection of computerized databases, which yield daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports. This monitoring and reporting system allows TMA to provide its supporters with a single, consistent source for economic, legislative, regulatory, trademark, brand, and statistical data: market by market and company by company.  One of the keys to success in the tobacco industry is access to timely, accurate information. TMA is the foremost source for current, objective information on the worldwide tobacco industry and provides easy access to this information through its publications and programs such as its Platinum Access program and its on-line TMA Daily News electronic program. If your success depends upon your knowledge of the ever changing tobacco industry environment, TMA can help ensure that success.

tma.org

At tma.org site, a secure members-only site, TMA members have a complete window on the entire world of tobacco information. This includes both the information structured and updated by TMA itself, as well as information published by other groups such as government organizations, non-governmental organizations, anti-tobacco groups, universities, corporations, among others.  Tma.org is a dynamic site, one that contains constantly updated information including a Headline Ticker of real-time news and a Stock Ticker of tobacco stock quotes from US stock exchanges. TMA's publications can be downloaded electronically as they are prepared by TMA staff, getting you TMA's information faster and in electronic form.

TMA's other programs such as TMA Daily News, US Federal & state legislation and regulations as introduced, passed and enacted, and the full-text of key press conferences can be downloaded easily. TMA databases offered through the Platinum Access programs can be searched on-line.

Using My TMA filtering tools, users are able to build their own customized reports from the wealth of TMA information. Imagine designing your own TMA reports from our textual files and tables of data for delivery in the form you want when you want it!

In short, the tma.org  site has been designed to be the tobacco industry's best means to easily and rapidly access and download information no matter where it might be located.