FDA Laws

On June 22, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This historic legislation grants authority to regulate tobacco products to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).In August of 2009 the FDA launched its new Center for Tobacco Products in an historic effort to curb the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by those products each year.

The Center oversees the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act signed by President Obama. The FDA’s responsibilities under the law include setting performance standards, reviewing premarket applications for new and modified risk tobacco products, and establishing and enforcing advertising and promotion restrictions.To learn more about Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products visit, http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/default.htm.

New and Larger Health Warnings on Cigarette Packages 

Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Howard K. Koh, M.D., MPH, Assistant Secretary of HHS and Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., FDA Commissioner announceed on November 10, 2010 new, evidence-based tobacco control initiatives to make health warnings on packages and in advertising larger and more prominent.

• HHS Announces New Tobacco Strategy (Press Release)
• Proposed Cigarette Product Warning Labels 
• Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements Proposed Rule

Tobacco Control Legal Consortium

The Tobacco Control Legal Consortium is America’s award-winning legal network for tobacco control policy. Drawing on experts in its eight affiliated legal centers, the Consortium works to assist communities with tobacco law-related issues, ranging from smoke-free policies to tobacco control funding laws to regulation of flavored cigarettes. 

An excellent overview of the 2009 federal legislation regulating tobacco products and its impact on the tobacco control authority of state and local governments can be found here: http://www.wmitchell.edu/documents/public-health-videos/lib/playback.html. 

• The Movement HOME

State Tobacco Campaign

• Anti-Tobacco Campaigns
• Tobacco Prevention and Education Program
• TOFCO Agenda

National Tobacco Campaign

• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
• FDA Laws
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Burning Issues

• Grassroots Network
• Hookah Lounges
• Tobacco Discriminates