FDA Maintains Heightened Enforcement Against Sellers of Illegal E-Cigarettes
In December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to online retailers for reportedly selling unauthorized e-cigarette products. Consistent with the Center for Tobacco...
View ArticleFDA’s Center for Tobacco Products Publishes Strategic Plan
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (“CTP”) has released a strategic plan intended to guide the Center’s activity for the next five years. While the strategic plan highlights...
View ArticleTroutman Pepper Tobacco + Nicotine Team to Present at TPE24
The Troutman Pepper Tobacco + Nicotine Team will attend the Total Product Expo in Las Vegas, January 31 to February 2. TPE is a business-to-business trade show that brings manufacturers, distributors...
View ArticleMultiple States Consider Establishing Vapor Product Directories
This year, several state legislatures will consider bills to establish vapor product directories. Amid heightened scrutiny of illicit vapor products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),...
View ArticleFDA’s Center for Tobacco Products Releases Annual Regulatory Agenda
We recently discussed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products’ (CTP) strategic plan intended to guide CTP’s activity for the next five years. On the same day, CTP...
View ArticleEn Banc Fifth Circuit Solidifies Circuit Split on Flavored ENDS Product MDOs
In early January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc in Wages & White Lion Investments, L.L.C. v. U.S. Food & Drug Administration, held that the U.S. Food and Drug...
View ArticleMore States Consider Establishing Vapor Product Directories
We recently reported that several state legislatures are considering bills to establish vapor product directories this year—namely Florida, Indiana, Missouri, and Virginia. Throughout January and early...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to California’s Flavor Ban
Over the past decade, at least five states and hundreds of localities have passed, or attempted to pass, laws banning flavored tobacco products. To date, litigants have brought many challenges to these...
View ArticleState Excise Tax Considerations for Tobacco and Nicotine Manufacturers,...
A couple of years ago we posted an overview of state licensing and excise tax considerations for tobacco companies. In this post, we take a closer look at state excise tax considerations. When...
View ArticleMassachusetts High Court Upholds Local Tobacco Sales Ban
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently upheld, in a unanimous decision, the town of Brookline’s ordinance banning the sale of tobacco and e-cigarette products to anyone born after Jan....
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