January 14, 2018 – Family Smoking Prevention & Tobacco Control Act. From the FDA Law Blog. 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 [...]
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U.S. FDA – more on “Substantial Equivalence” Reports for Tobacco Products.
Tobacco firms’ use of YouTube probed
The tobacco industry may be using websites such as YouTube to get around a ban on advertising cigarettes, a study says. Researchers in New Zealand studied the video-sharing site and found a number of pro-tobacco videos “consistent with indirect marketing activity by tobacco companies or their proxies”.They say governments should consider regulating such content on [...]
‘Step Forward’ in Limiting Smoking Scenes in Films
LOS ANGELES — The figures are in: Hollywood has actually been snuffing the smoke out of movies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on Thursday showing that scenes of smoking in high-grossing films fell to 1,935 “incidents” last year, down 49 percent from a recent peak of 3,967 in 2005. The [...]
Malaysia beats industry with warning labels
Despite strong tobacco industry resistance, tobacco control advocates in Malaysia helped implement pictorial warning labels that exceed policy guidelines, a new report found. The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) recently released the report, Implementing Pictorial Health Warnings in Malaysia: Challenges and Lessons Learned, which highlights Malaysia’s experience with implementing pictorial warning labels on tobacco [...]