IPCPR

IPCPR State and Local Year In Review

In 2017 the premium tobacco industry encountered many legislative and regulatory challenges at the state and local levels. The International Premium Cigar and Pipe...
Beverly Hills Passes Landmark Ordinance Banning Tobacco Sales

Beverly Hills Passes Landmark Ordinances Banning Tobacco Sales

There have been local ordinances limiting the sales and availability of tobacco products in the past but none as restrictive as the one recently...
Republican Senator Pushes for More Smoking Restrictions in Florida

Republican Senator Pushes for More Smoking Restrictions in Florida

There's a new effort in Florida to give the state's counties and municipalities the ability to impose more smoking restrictions within the boundaries of...
FDA ANPRM Extension

FDA Extends Tobacco ANPRM Deadlines

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it will be extending the deadlines for the three advanced notice of proposed rule...
Minneapolis Menthol Ban

Minneapolis City Council Considers Menthol Ban

An ordinance has been proposed in Minneapolis that if passed would drastically limit the sale of menthol cigarettes and menthol, mint and wintergreen tobacco...
Hunter Vaping Bill

Proposed Bill Would Spare Vapor Products from FDA Regulation

A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives on April 27, 2017, by Republican Representative Duncan Hunter of California would exempt e-cigarettes and...
All Politics is Local

All Politics is Local

“All politics is local” is the title of the opening chapter in former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tip O’Neill’s biography. It...
Cigarette Smoking | FDA Regulation

FDA Tobacco Regulation Update

The following was contributed by the National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO) FDA Begins Reviewing Comments on Proposed Regulations Banning Menthol in Cigarettes and Flavored...
Los Angeles County Considering Flavored Tobacco Ban

Los Angeles County Considering Flavored Tobacco Ban

Los Angeles County could become the largest jurisdiction in the U.S. to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products if a newly proposed ordinance...
FDA Extends Commenting Period for Substantial Equivalence Draft Guidance

FDA Extends Commenting Period for Substantial Equivalence Draft Guidance

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it has extended the commenting period for the agency's draft guidance on Substantial Equivalence...
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