Tag Archives: tobacco regulation

FDA opens the “historical” period to regulate tobacco

Four years after Congress gave him the authority to regulate tobacco products to protect the health of the nation, the Food and Drug Administration issued the first slate of decisions affecting the market for tobacco products, by adopting two new products and rejecting four.
The agency on Tuesday gave Lorillard Tobacco Co. the green light to market two new proposals cigarette offerings – and menthol version of its brand Newport – Newport finding Non-Menthol 100s gold box and Newport Non-Menthol Gold Box “do not raise different questions of public health,” than their counterparts that are already on the market.

Britain Tightening Regulations on electronic cigarettes

UK’s drugs regulator, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said this week that e-cigarettes and similar products containing nicotine will be some strict rules in 2016.
MHRA said that within three years of e-cigarettes need a license, the treatment of a pair of smoking as well as other over-the-counter medications. The regulator said that the different varieties of electronic cigarettes available are not good enough to meet the public health priority of the Government to reduce the harm from smoking.

Local Control of Tobacco Regulation

Last month, Governor Mary Fallin has announced her plans to support an initiative petition in 2014 to change the way tobacco is regulated in Oklahoma.

Regulation of tobacco

Menthol Cigarette and graphic warnings: these were the three regulatory UBS senior analyst Nik Modi predicted tobacco tobacco industry will say in 2012. “There’s no real urgency,” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Modi said during last week’s tobacco update CSPNetwork CyberConference about the lack of movement of the agency to regulate menthol.