The FDA tried to ban flavors years before the vaping outbreak. Top Obama officials rejected the plan Arendtm October 4, 2019 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Excerpt: Instead, over the course of 46 days, a deluge of more than 100 tobacco industry lobbyists and small business advocates met with White House officials as they weighed whether to include the ban as pa...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on FDA and Graphic Warning Labels: Glacial and Unwilling, but in the Right Direction Arendtm August 16, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News This week the Food and Drug Administration announced a comment period for a proposed rule to require graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and advertisements (pictured above). If this sounds familia...
FDA wants to ban menthol cigarettes. Why not all cigarettes? Arendtm November 14, 2018 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, Press Releases Media Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202) 659 - 4310 WASHINGTON, DC – November 15, 2018 – This week FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced his intention to begin the process for banning the sale...
New, sweeping federal rules bar e-cigarette sales to teens younger than 18 Arendtm May 5, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Obama administration on Thursday announced controversial new rules for electronic cigarettes, cigars, hookahs and pipe tobacco, including barring the sales of the products to teens under 18 years old. Th...
Call the White House: Tues, Oct 27 Arendtm October 21, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Take action! Call the White House comment line at 202-456-1111 on Tuesday, October 27th and ask President Obama to stand up for our kids and public health by giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) th...
FDA ‘Deeming’ Update ash August 12, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates More organizations have revealed thecomments that they submitted to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on whether certain tobacco products should fall under the agency's authority. Aug. 8 was the de...
In New Calculus on Smoking, It’s Health Gained vs. Pleasure Lost Arendtm August 7, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News WASHINGTON — Rarely has the concept of happiness caused so much consternation in public health circles. Buried deep in the federal government’s voluminous new tobacco regulations is a little-known cost-benefit...
FDA Extends Its Authority Over Tobacco Products & E-Cigarettes, Leaving Loopholes Arendtm April 24, 2014 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases Statement of ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed new rules that will extend its regulatory authority to include electronic cigarettes as well as cigar...
FDA Will Propose New Regulations for E-Cigarettes ash April 24, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News he Food and Drug Administration will propose sweeping new rules on Thursday that for the first time would extend its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, popular nicotine delivery devi...
Wanna Smoke? It Could Cost You A Tooth, The FDA Warns Teens ash February 4, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News When it comes to convincing teenagers not to smoke, you gotta think short-term, the Food and Drug Administration says. Click here to read the full article>...
Deciphering FDA and Menthol ash August 5, 2013 Blog A few weeks ago, you may have seen some press about an “Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” from the Food and Drug Administration reg...
WTO Decision Forces U.S. Hand on Menthol Cigarettes ash July 24, 2013 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News U.S. will comply with WTO decision by moving to ban menthol additives GENEVA, SWITZERLAND 24 July – Yesterday the U.S. laid out its plan to come into compliance with a WTO dispute settlement panel fi...
Statement of the United States on Menthol ash July 23, 2013 Featured News & Events, Related News Statement of the United States on Menthol for the WTO Dispute Settlement Body on July 23, 2013 The United States provided a status report in this dispute on July 11, 2013, in accordance with Article 21.6 of...
FDA Says Menthol Cigarettes Likely Have Health Impact ash July 23, 2013 Featured News & Events, Related News Lorillard Inc. (LO), Altria Group Inc. (MO) and other tobacco companies may face limits on selling menthol cigarettes in the U.S. after regulators determined the minty flavoring may encourage people to start s...
Tobacco Companies Are Not Public Health Stakeholders, Experts Conclude ash May 31, 2013 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News When assessing information presented by the tobacco industry, the US regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and regulatory bodies in other countries, should be aware that they are dealing with compan...
FDA Has Finally Handcuffed Tobacco Manufacturers With New Rulings ash March 11, 2013 Related News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the re-issuing of a final rule restricting the sale, distribution, and use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. The rule was originally issued and ma...
Court Blocks FDA Tobacco Warning Labels Appeal ash December 5, 2012 Featured News & Events, Related News A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected the government’s request for the full court to hear a case on the Food and Drug Administration’s graphic tobacco warning labels, setting up a potential Supreme Cour...
In Graphic Warnings Case, Tobacco Lawyers Fight Full D.C. Circuit Review ash November 1, 2012 Related News Lawyers for major tobacco companies said Monday they do not want the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to touch a panel's ruling that went against the government's controversial graphic warnin...
What are E-cigarettes? Are they harmful? What is ASH doing about them? ash July 20, 2012 FAQs An e-cigarette is a device that uses electricity from a small battery to vaporize a tobacco-containing solution, producing a vapor that is inhaled. The vapor includes nicotine, the addictive chemical found in o...
