The Big Picture, Part 1
From: CSPnet.com
Annual review of federal, state and local tobacco issues
Published in Tobacco E-News
By Thomas A. Briant, Executive Director
MINNEAPOLIS — This annual report focuses on the big picture of tobacco legislation and regulations on the federal, state and local levels. So far, 2014 has proven to be even more demanding and complex than 2013 was because of the proposed deeming tobacco regulations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the significant increase in both the number and scope of proposed local tobacco ordinances.
FDA Deeming Regulations
In April, the FDA released for public comment a set of proposed deeming regulations that would extend the agency’s regulatory authority to other tobacco products.
The FDA proposed two deeming regulatory options. Option 1 would extend regulations to all other categories of tobacco products, including cigars, pipe tobacco, electronic cigarettes, nicotine gels, hookah tobacco and dissolvables. Option 2 would extend the FDA’s regulatory authority to all of these categories of tobacco products, except premium cigars.
Specifically, the FDA’s proposed deeming regulations would adopt the following regulations:
