FDA takes significant steps to protect Americans from dangers of tobacco through new regulation

Thursday, May 5, 2016 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule extending its authority to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco, among others. This historic rule helps implement the bipartisan Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and allows the FDA to improve public health and protect future generations […]

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