October 26th, 2017
From: R Street
by Brad Rodu
Analyzing data from the baseline 2013-2014 Food and Drug Administration-funded Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study, my economist colleague Nantaporn Plurphanswat and I have produced a comprehensive study of e-cigarette use in the United States. The research appears in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
The standard vaping definition has two components. Participants must have:
- Regularly vaped;and
- Now vape every day or some days.
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October 19th, 2017
From: Healthline
Written by Gigen Mammoser
Federal regulators are studying these products that heat tobacco rather than burn it. Manufacturers hope they can overtake e-cigarettes.
A new tobacco product that’s already popular overseas could overtake e-cigarettes in the United States.
New research from San Diego State University predicts that “heat-not-burn” tobacco products could soon be flooding American markets.
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October 6th, 2017
From: The Hill | Opinion
By Carrie Wade, opinion contributor
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VLNCs contain nicotine at levels that do not produce physiological effects, rendering what residual nicotine they do contain ineffective. There is no other available consumer product that delivers only the harm and none of the perceived user benefit, especially one proposed by a health agency.
Using a public-health ethics framework, the proposal for VLNCs might not pass muster upon closer examination. There are several central questions proposed by Dr. Nancy Kass of Johns Hopkins University that would need to be considered before public health officials can decide whether VLNCs are in the best interests of society.
September 26th, 2017
From: Vaping Post
In 2011, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Big Tobacco, who had appealed against new cigarette label warnings that the FDA was implementing. Yesterday, the agency announced the launch of a study which aims to formulate new warning labels that are constitutional.
By Diane Caruana
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Finally this week, the FDA announced its proposed research on lawful cigarette warnings in a public notice in the Federal Register. The aim of this voluntary online consumer study, is to assess whether the warnings that the agency was forced to revise, actually promote a better understanding of the risks of smoking.
September 15th, 2017
From: FDA Voice
By: Mitch Zeller, J.D.
In a bid to help streamline and simplify the tobacco product application process and potentially reduce the associated costs, FDA is encouraging the creation and use of tobacco product master files (TPMFs).
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For example, a flavor supplier might submit a TPMF to FDA that contains the full listing of ingredients and composition information of different flavors. The flavor supplier could then grant a customer, for example, an e-cigarette manufacturer, the right to reference the TPMF to support the customer’s premarket application for an e-cigarette that uses the supplier’s flavors. When reviewing the premarket application, FDA would also review ingredient and composition information in the TPMF, which may otherwise be confidential, without that information being shared with the customer.
