This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled two proposed product standards to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and to prohibit all characterizing flavors (other than tobacco) in cigars. According to the FDA, these actions have the potential to significantly reduce disease and death from combusted tobacco product use, the…
Read More »This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a series of actions as part of its work to ensure any electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products available on the market have demonstrated that marketing of the products is appropriate for the protection of public health. The FDA authorized several tobacco-flavored ENDS products from Logic…
Read More »The most recent findings from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicate decreases in the use of commercial tobacco products overall, combustible tobacco products, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and two or more tobacco products among U.S. adults from 2019 to 2020. Despite these decreases, however, nearly one in five…
Read More »The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the results of the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) this week, finding that approximately 2.55 million U.S. middle and high school students report current (past 30-day) use of a tobacco product in 2021. The NYTS was conducted among U.S. middle and high school students…
Read More »The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report, “Premium Cigars: Patterns of Use, Marketing, and Health Effects.” The report found that overall cigar consumption has increased every year since the late 1990s, with a total increase of 145 percent from 1998 to 2020. The report details 13 findings, 24 conclusions, and…
Read More »The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Tips From Former Smokers, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, this week unveiled a series of new advertisements encouraging people who smoke to quit. The campaign has had significant and sustained impact over the past decade, helping more than one million U.S. adults quit smoking. The Tips…
Read More »This week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an order postponing the effective date of the “Required Warnings for Cigarettes Packages and Advertisements” final rule from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The district court delayed implementation of the rule for an additional three months, until April 9, 2023….
Read More »The “Yes to Protect Kids” Coalition on Thursday launched its statewide campaign to keep children safe and healthy by ending the sale of candy-flavored tobacco and nicotine products. Numerous California officials, including U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, and Board of Equalization Chair Malia Cohen, spoke during the campaign launch, highlighting the dangers…
Read More »On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has authorized the marketing of four new oral tobacco products manufactured by U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, LLC under the brand name of Verve. The products were reviewed under the agency’s premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) process in which the agency must determine whether the…
Read More »In the first authorization of its kind, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced it has authorized the marketing of three new electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products through the FDA’s Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) pathway. The FDA granted marketing approvals to R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company for its Vuse Solo ENDS…
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