October 29th, 2015
Editor’s Note
Allegedly here is a copy of the FDA Premarket Application for e-cigarettes
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From: ECigIntelligence
Written by Barnaby Page, Carly Souther and Jim Myers
An e-cigarette industry association this week claimed to be in possession of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s forthcoming deeming regulations, but the provenance and authenticity of the brief excerpts that it published remain unclear.
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What This Means: While TVECA has clearly obtained documents of some kind, there is far too much uncertainty to make a confident reading on the final shape of the deeming regulations – let alone for businesses (except perhaps those selling premium cigars) to take any action based on them.
October 21st, 2015
From: Convenience Store News
Agency is seeking clearance from OMB to proceed.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another federal agency will put electronic cigarettes under its regulatory microscope.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Monday it plans to study the sales and marketing of e-cigarettes in the United States. To conduct the study, the agency would issue information requests to e-cigarette marketers and would use the information as a basis for a report on the sales, marketing activities and expenditures in this new and complex industry.
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October 15th, 2015
From: Spectator | Health
by Christopher Snowdon
Walking down most British high streets you could be forgiven for thinking that e-cigarettes are more common than tobacco. It’s a false impression. There are still more smokers than vapers, but more than anywhere else in the world, you see men and women clutching a variety of shiny vaping devices. I suspect only a handful of them are aware that their e-cigarettes will be snatched from them in a few months time as a result of EU regulations that are — even by the standards of Brussels — misguided, ill-considered and counter-productive.
October 13th, 2015
From: Convenience Store News
The agency is still mum on the final deeming rule.
By Melissa Kress
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DEEMING RULE
The big question in the room, of course, was when the agency will issue its final deeming rule, giving it authority over electronic cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and certain dissolvable products that are not smokeless tobacco.
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“There is a reason we don’t talk publicly about things that have not been decided yet,” Zeller said Sunday. “The process is deliberative and we cannot talk publicly about non-decisions.”
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October 8th, 2015
From: NACS
The public education initiative dubbed “Fresh Empire” is designed to help hip-hop youth avoid tobacco.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a national public education campaign called Fresh Empire, to prevent and reduce tobacco use among multicultural youth who identify with the hip-hop peer crowd—a group the agency says is hard to reach for anti-tobacco education.
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