FDA Extends Deadline For Product and Establishment Registration
As part of the deeming regulations set forth by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), manufacturers are expected to not only register with...
Minnesota County Seeks Cigarette-Like Restrictions for Vapor Products
In an unanimous vote, the Board of Commissioners in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, decided to treat vapor products as conventional cigarettes. Effective January 1, use...
California Cig Tax Ballot Initiative Passes
Introduced for the third time in 10 years, California’s Proposition 56 finally passed—and by a wide margin (63 percent to 37 percent). The measure...
FDA Deeming Regulations: What They Mean for Your Store
Five months after the FDA’s deeming regulations were released, there are still a lot of questions and much confusion around what they mean for...
Sizing Up the Sampling Ban
1. What is a free sample?
The FDA defines a free sample as a tobacco product that does not cost the recipient anything. In other...
Judge Rules on Label Changes
In August, Federal Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot consider a label revision for a tobacco...
Colorado Organization Seeks Cigarette/OTP Tax Increase
A group known as the Campaign for a Healthy Colorado has announced that it is pursuing a petition drive to support Ballot Initiative 143...
Pennsylvania Raises Cigarette Taxes and Sets OTP Tax Rates
On July 13, 2016, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed into law House Bill 1198, which increases the state cigarette tax by $1 per pack,...
Alaska Proposed Tax Increase
In Alaska, two bills (House Bill 5002e and Senate Bill 5002e) propose to increase the tax on cigarettes by $ per pack, increase the...
Indiana Announces E-Liquid Enforcement Plan
The Indiana Alcohol Tobacco Commission (ATC) has announced that it will not enforce for a period of 60 days the provisions of a 2015...
