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/or ddictiveness of tobacco products, and encourage toacco use cessation. The CTP has established anOffıce of cience to ensure that sound science exists with which to evelop regulatory actions. Although there is a vast and ound science base with regard to numerous provisions ithin theTCA, new researchwill not only help assess the mpact of FDA regulatory authority over tobacco prodcts but will inform future regulatory activities. In order o meet the broad science demands within the TCA, the TP developed seven research priority areas: