The Troutman Sanders Tobacco practice will be presenting at the Tobacco Merchants Association Annual Meeting and All-Industry Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia on May 16th.
Ashley Taylor will present on “Promotions in Rhode Island & New York.” Bryan Haynes will participate in a panel entitled “Deeming Regulations — A Conversation,” which…
On April 22, 2013, the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari in a First Amendment challenge to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act’s graphic warning label requirement. The law requires that cigarette packages display graphic warning labels covering 20 to 50 percent of the product packaging.
The Troutman Sanders Tobacco practice is proud to be participating in the Food and Drug Law Institute’s (FDLI) 2013 Annual Conference, the largest and longest-running legal conference for regulated industry. This year’s conference will cover legal, regulatory, policy and economic issues spanning the gamut of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority, by bringing together experts from industry, Congress, and federal agencies. FDLI’s Annual Conference provides a valuable educational opportunity to discuss and debate emerging issues.
The new head of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, Mitchell Zeller, started work this week.
Zeller (who is a trained lawyer) has a long record in tobacco control, having led FDA’s failed effort in the mid-1990s to regulate tobacco products. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected that effort, finding that FDA lacked congressional authority to regulate tobacco products. Now that FDA has been given congressional authority, Zeller takes over as head of those efforts, assuming the position held by Dr. Lawrence Deyton since the inception of FDA’s tobacco authority.
A bill pending in the Utah legislature, House Bill 372, would tax and regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products under Utah law.
If enacted, the bill would redefine the term “tobacco product” to include e-cigarettes and cartridges. This would impose the tobacco products tax on e-cigarettes, which is 86% of…
Bryan Haynes of the Troutman Sanders Tobacco practice was recently quoted in The Atlantic article, “The FDA is Keeping New Cigarettes Off the Market“.
Haynes explains why tobacco companies believe this violates the obvious intent of the law. “Why would you have a 180-day review for a presumably
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The Tobacco Control Act requires specific health warnings for smokeless tobacco products. The packaging and advertising of smokeless tobacco products must contain one of the following four specified warning statements:
Officials with the American Lung Association and American Cancer Society are complaining about an advertisement aired during the Super Bowl for electronic cigarettes.
Fox’s Washington, D.C. affiliate WTTG recently did a report on electronic cigarettes. The report discusses the recent popularity of e-cigarettes, and cites an FDA statement that “FDA intends to propose regulation that would extend the agency’s ‘tobacco product’ authorities … further research is needed to assess the potential public health…
We enjoyed seeing our friends and meeting new ones at the Tobacco Plus Expo show in Las Vegas on January 30-31. We also attended a meeting of electronic cigarette companies just before the show.
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