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The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (also known as the FSPTC Act) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on June 22, 2009. This bill changed the scope of tobacco policy in the United States by giving the FDA the ability to regulate tobacco products, similar to how it has regulated food and pharmaceuticals since the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.
Escalating concerns regarding the safety of ephedra supplements led the FDA to ban the sale of supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids (specifically ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norephedrine, and methylephedrine) in the United States in 2004. This ban was challenged by supplement manufacturers and initially overturned, but ultimately upheld.
Allows the FDA to change tobacco product content. The ban on flavoring applies to any product meeting the definition of a "cigarette" according to section 3(1) of the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act. This includes any tobacco that comes rolled in paper or a non-tobacco substance, and added to this definition in the Family Smoking ...
Federal health officials are partnering with the US Department of Justice to fight the illegal sale and distribution of e-cigarettes. FDA, Justice Department crack down on sale of illegal e ...
The goal is to curb youth use. Home & Garden. Medicare
The FDA had banned Juul's four varieties of tobacco and menthol-flavored pods and the e-cigarette device after it concluded that the company failed to show that sale of these products would be ...
British Columbia is the only remaining jurisdiction in Canada to permit the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies. [17] [21] [22] [23] In 2014, the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia announced that it was considering instituting a by-law for its members which would ban the sale of tobacco products in premises where a pharmacy is located.
A subsidiary of rival Imperial Brands had disputed the FDA's decision to ban its flavored and unflavored vape products. A U.S. appeals court in August agreed that its unflavored products should be ...