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Regulations Restricting the Sale, Distribution and Marketing of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco
Jump to full article: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 2010-03-18
Intro: Scientists have proven the link between tobacco product advertisements and promotion and adolescent tobacco use. To protect kids from becoming addicted to tobacco products and suffering the deadly effects of tobacco, the FDA Center for Tobacco Products issued a new rule limiting the sale, distribution, and marketing of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.
Every day nearly 4,000 kids under 18 try their first cigarette and 1,000 kids under 18 become daily smokers. Many of these kids will become addicted before they are old enough to understand the risks and will ultimately die too young of tobacco-related diseases. This is an avoidable personal tragedy for those kids and their families as well as a preventable public health disaster for our country.
The new rule, authorized by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act), prohibits the sale, distribution, marketing and promotion of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to children and adolescents (under age 18). Titled Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco to Protect Children and Adolescents, the rule is effective June 22, 2010 and has the force and effect of law.
Like the prohibition against certain flavored cigarettes, which went into effect on September 22, 2009, these legal requirements aim to prevent our kids from becoming the next generation of Americans to die early from tobacco-related diseases.
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