Opportunity for public comments: Prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavoring of cigarettes and cigarette smoke
The Tobacco Control Legal Consortium and eighteen other leading public health groups filed a formal Citizen Petition urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prohibit menthol as a flavor in cigarettes. Click here to visit the Legal Consortium’s FDA Action Center to learn more about this issue and other opportunities to guide FDA’s regulation of tobacco. Click here to access the petition urging the FDA to prohibit menthol as a flavor in cigarettes. Click here to submit a comment in response to the docket FDA-2013-P-0435.

FDA tobacco chief says health community grappling with idea that some products are less risky
The new director of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) tobacco control efforts, Mitch Zeller, communicated to attendees of the Tobacco Merchants Association meeting in Williamsburg, VA that some tobacco products may pose less of a health threat than others. He also stated that the FDA is making progress in assessing the backlog of 3,500 new product applications and is investigating how to address the regulation of menthol cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes. The FDA was authorized to regulate tobacco products as a result of the 2009 Tobacco Control Act. Click here to read more.

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