By Kurt R. Karst – Earlier this week, a group of five tobacco companies (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Commonwealth Brands, Inc., Liggett Group LLC, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc.) filed a four-count Complaint against FDA in the U.S. District Court for …
By Ricardo Carvajal – The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") issued the latest in a series of reports on sales, advertising, and promotion of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. The reports are based on data submitted to FTC by industry. The cigarette report states that the “total number …
By Jennifer D. Newberger – On April 25, 2011, FDA announced the availability of two guidance documents issued by the Center for Tobacco Products ("CTP"). The first, a final guidance document issued in March 2011, is titled “Civil Money Penalties and No-Tobacco-Sale Orders for Tobacco Retailers.” …
By Ricardo Carvajal – Rep. Henry Waxman, Ranking Member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, sent FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg a letter urging the agency to investigate Kretek International’s (Kretek) marketing of clove-flavored cigars, and to ban flavored cigars that are “marketed for the purpose …
By David B. Clissold – In a federal lawsuit filed on Friday, February 25, 2011 in the District of Columbia, Lorillard, Inc., Lorillard Tobacco Company, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company sued the FDA, DHHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Margaret Hamburg, and Lawrence Deyton for declaratory and injunctive relief …
By Ricardo Carvajal – Totally Wicked-E.Liquid (“TWI”), an importer and distributor of electronic cigarettes, filed suit to prevent FDA from regulating TWI’s electronic cigarettes as drugs, devices, or combination products, and from barring their importation into the U.S. TWI claims that the nicotine in its product …
By David B. Clissold – Last week, FDA released Agency's first guidance for tobacco product manufacturers concerning the introduction of “new” tobacco products. The guidance was issued in final form since some manufacturers will need it to help them submit reports to FDA over the next few months. A “new …
By Susan J. Matthees – Last Tuesday, FDA announced the availability of final results from its experimental study of graphic cigarette warning labels. As we previously reported, FDA proposed 36 graphic warning images to accompany the health warning statement required under section 201 of the Family …
By Ricardo Carvajal – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the D.C. District Court’s grant of an injunction that bars FDA's regulation of e-cigarettes as drug/device products absent claims of intended use to that effect (for our prior posting on the district court decision, see …
By Ricardo Carvajal – The graphic artists working on behalf of FDA have been busy, busy, busy! The agency posted 36 proposed graphic health warnings that would accompany the new health warning statements required under section 201 of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. …
By Nisha P Shah – In a letter to the Electronic Cigarette Association, FDA stated its intention to regulate electronic cigarettes (also referred to as e-cigarettes or e-cigs) as drug products. Specifically, FDA maintained that e-cigarettes “meet the definitions of both a drug and device …
By Ricardo Carvajal – June 22 looms large on the calendar for firms subject to the requirements of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (“FSPTCA”) and FDA’s final rule curbing promotion and sale of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to underage consumers. In anticipation …
By Ricardo Carvajal – Some smaller cigarette manufacturers have sued FDA to invalidate a provision in FDA’s recently issued final rule that would restrict a manufacturer from using certain product names on the ground that the restriction violates the First and Fifth Amendments, among other …
By Peter M. Jaensch – On March 23, 2010, Judge McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a memorandum decision in U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Manufacturing Company, LLC, and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Brands, Inc. v. City of New York denying …
By Jamie K. Wolszon & David B. Clissold – FDA published two Federal Register notices Friday, March 19th related to its oversight and regulation of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, including a much heralded final rule to restrict the sale of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to …
