February 22nd, 2012
Sleepy Eye Hearld Dispatch
Sleepy Eye, Minn. —
An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is meeting to discuss the risks and benefits of dissolvable tobacco.
According to a FDA memo, the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee will discuss issues ranging from accidental poisoning from dissolvable tobacco, the effects of product packaging, marketing practices, youth perception of the products and the behavioral, toxicological and physiological effects of dissolvable tobacco.
Will the design of this product appeal to youth and addict younger adolescents and adults to nicotine?
February 19th, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The following is a statement from Jason Healy, President of blu Cigs:
Flavored cigarettes and to a lesser extent, electronic cigarettes, are a topic of much debate, so I’d like to examine both sides of the argument and add some more perspective to the discussion.
First, a question for each side – slightly tongue in cheek, but pertinent to the discussion nonetheless. At what age does one cease liking flavors? It may sound silly but I’ll ask again. At what point does one stop liking chocolate, mint, strawberry or bubble gum? The obvious answer to the question is, never (in most cases) does one cease liking flavors. But more important than the question is the answer, which is core to the solution, and the main argument against anti-smoking groups’ claims.
February 14th, 2012
By Patricia Molteni, Tobacco Project Counsel
NAAGazette
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma, in Edmondson v. Native Wholesale Supply, 2010 OK 58, 237 P.3d 199 (2010), recently issued a ruling affirming the authority of the state of Oklahoma to regulate the sale of cigarettes in Oklahoma even though the cigarettes as issued were manufactured by an Indian tribe, distributed through a business owned by a tribal member, and sold to a tribal wholesaler located on an Oklahoma reservation. Similar litigation has arisen against Native Wholesale Supply (NWS) in New Mexico, California, and Idaho, as each of these states seeks to enforce their tobacco laws to prevent the alleged unlawful sale of cigarettes into their states.
