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[Virginia] FDA's top tobacco regulator pledges 'fair' enforcement of products

“You all make a lawful product,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, told those attending the Tobacco Merchants Association’s annual meeting in Williamsburg. “Our job is to regulate the manufacture, sale and marketing of the
Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch
added May 16, 2013 14:24
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Justices decline to hear challenge to tobacco law

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a tobacco industry challenge to a federal law that expanded restrictions on the advertising and marketing of cigarettes. The provisions of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act unde
Reuters
added Apr 22, 2013 12:50
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Merlyn Griffiths: The Unhappy Hookah

The campus craze is regarded by smokers as a healthy alternative to cigarettes. It's not.
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
added Feb 28, 2013 10:49
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A “Transformed” Tobacco Company? Reynolds’ Actions Show Otherwise

Rather than changing, Reynolds continues to market its products to kids, mislead the public about the health risks of its products and fight proven strategies that prevent kids from smoking and reduce the death and disease caused by its products. Far fr
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK)
added Feb 25, 2013 20:48
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[Canada] Jesse Kline: E-cigarettes are not your father’s smokes

policy-markers must realize that, as a harm-reduction technology, e-cigarettes have the potential to save many lives. And, ultimately, adults who choose to use them should be free to make their own decisions.
National Post (ca)
added Feb 4, 2013 10:05
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Cigar Manufacturer Fights Back Against Waxman

Prime Time sends letter to FDA . . . "We're simply asking them to consider the broad-based studies of more validity rather than the smaller CDC study," Deer told Tobacco E-News, specifically citing the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis
Convenience Store/Petroleum (CSPNet)
added Oct 8, 2012 07:35
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BAT explores alternatives as cigarette market dips

Speaking to the Financial Times yesterday, BAT CE Nicandro Durante said the company was looking at lower-risk alternatives to traditional cigarettes such as noncombustible cigarettes, which heat tobacco rather than burn it, and nicotine inhalers.
Business Day (za)
added Oct 2, 2012 17:27
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[West Virginia] VIDEO: Big Tobacco and Smokers Battle in Controversial Case

Marjory Moses, Director of Community Wellness at Davis Memorial Hospital, said, "To say that a cigarette could have been safer, that less nicotine makes it safer, or that a filter could make it safer, is just saying it could be different. It can't ultimat
WDTV CBS Channel 5 (Bridgeport, WV)
added May 15, 2013 19:53
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FDA considers an independent body to monitor tobacco research

is considering a recommendation that an independent body should monitor some research put to the agency by tobacco companies, underscoring the growing concern about conflicts of interest in scientific research. The recommendation was submitted by the Ins
Thomson Reuters
added Mar 28, 2013 12:57
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Researchers to study how young adults use e-cigarettes, snus

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Health Research and Policy have received a $2.3 million federal grant to study how young adults use hookahs, snus, electronic cigarettes, and other new tobacco products.
ScienceDaily
added Feb 11, 2013 10:16
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