Regulation of Tobacco Products

Federal regulation of tobacco products and products that treat tobacco dependence: are the playing fields level?

Federal approaches to the regulation of noncigarette tobacco products.

CONTEXT Under a grant funded by ClearWay Minnesota(SM) and in partnership with nationally recognized experts in tobacco product regulation, the Public Health Law Center investigated how laws at every level apply, or fail to apply, to noncigarette tobacco products--also called "other tobacco products." EVIDENCE ACQUISITION During the years 2010-2011, standard legal research techniques were use...

Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco products: introduction.

T his past July, the US Senate voted 78 to 15 to grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products. The proposed, precedent setting legislation is part of a larger tax bill and is also tied to a controversial tobacco growers’ buyout. In order to become law, the Senate version of the Bill, sponsored by Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio and Democrat Edward K...

The need for FDA regulation of tobacco products.

The Food and Drug Administration's regulation of tobacco: the Center for Tobacco Products' Office of Science.

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) was signed into law on June 22, 2009, and provided the Food and Drug Adinistration (FDA) broad regulatory authority with repect to the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of obacco products. The three public health goals of the enter for Tobacco Products (CTP), FDA, are to prevent outh initiation of tobacco use, decrease harm and/...