US - General: Philip Morris International (PMI) is preparing to launch its Iqos heated tobacco device in Austin, Texas, media reports. The city
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US - Mississippi: House Bill (HB) 1943 has been introduced. HB 1943 would define heated tobacco products (HTPs), and further establish a tax rate
US - Vermont: Senate Bill 18 has been passed by the House and goes back to the Senate, which passed a different version
15th March 2024 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: A group of nearly 70 House Republicans has sent a letter to president Joe Biden calling on his administration to expedite the
US - Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Supreme Court has upheld a “tobacco-free generation” law passed in 2020 by the town of Brookline that bans
US - West Virginia: The National Taxpayers Union (NTU), the nation’s oldest taxpayer advocacy organisation, has sent a letter to the members of
US - Iowa: House Study Bill (HSB) 725 has been introduced, which would establish a definition of heated tobacco products (HTPs). HSB 725
US - West Virginia: Senate Bill (SB) 863 has been introduced. SB 863 would levy a tax on heated tobacco products (HTPs). These products
US - Utah: House Bill 566 has been introduced, which would make it unlawful to give, distribute, sell or offer for sale the
US - California: Assembly Bill 3218 has been introduced, which would require the attorney general to establish and maintain a list of tobacco
US - New York: Bill A 9224 has been introduced, which would prohibit the sale of tobacco products and vapour products within 500 ft
US - Maine: The Hallowell City Council voted to end the sale of flavoured nicotine products, including menthol, in the city. Hallowell, with a population
US - Alabama: Senate bill (SB) 96 has been introduced, which would define heated tobacco products (HTPs) for state law purposes. Accordingly, an HTP
US - Mississippi: House Bill 856 has been introduced. It would increase the tax rate on cigarettes from $0.034 to $0.059 per cigarette in
2nd February 2024 - North America, United States |
US - General: Philip Morris International (PMI) has announced that it has reached a global settlement with British American Tobacco (BAT) that resolves all ongoing
US - Ohio: Local governments in Ohio cannot enact tobacco and nicotine rules, meaning that those regulations must come from the state level.
US - General: New York Democrat Chuck Schumer is facing criticism from Republicans following his call for a crackdown on Zyn nicotine pouches.
24th January 2024 - North America, United States |
US - General: New York Democrat Chuck Schumer is calling for a federal crackdown on Zyn nicotine pouches, claiming the product is being
US - Hawaii: Senate Bill 2691 has been introduced. It would prohibit the sale of flavoured tobacco products and mislabelled e-liquids that contain
US - New Mexico: Senate Bill 80 has been introduced and would prohibit the sale of flavoured tobacco products in the state. A
US - Colorado: Senate Bill (SB) 24-022 has been introduced. The bill would allow Colorado counties to regulate the distribution of tobacco products and
15th January 2024 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: A group of senators has sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, Shalanda Young, expressing
15th January 2024 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: Senate Democrat Dick Durbin has criticised the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) again for its long-overdue review of premarket tobacco
US - Indiana: Senate Bill (SB) 227 has been introduced. The bill would require manufacturers of alternative nicotine products and vapour products to
US - Maine: Hallowell is yet another city in Maine seeking to ban the sale of flavoured vaping and other tobacco products, including
9th January 2024 - California, United States |
US - Federal: Yesterday (8th January), the US Supreme Court declined to hear tobacco company RJ Reynolds' challenge to a California law banning
20th December 2023 - North America, United States |
18th December 2023 - United States |
US - Federal: US senators sent a letter to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Robert Califf urging the FDA’s Center for
US - New Jersey: S 2667, which would prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes, has been amended by the Senate. The amendment has
US - Maine: The Falmouth Town Council voted 5-2 to impose a flavour ban on the sale of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, that will
7th December 2023 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: The White House will take more time to review the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s proposed rule to end
22nd November 2023 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has published a new webinar, which provides information on
16th November 2023 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it has increased the civil money penalties that tobacco companies
14th November 2023 - United States |
US - Federal: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a report on smokeless tobacco sales and marketing expenditures for 2022. In 2020,
US - Louisiana: The Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control has released a list of approved e-сigarettes and alternative nicotine products, known
US - Colorado: Proposition II, Tobacco and Nicotine Product Tax Revenue Measure (2023) was approved by public vote on the 7th November ballot.
US - New York: Bill A 8243 has been introduced. The bill would require random, quarterly inspections of retail premises authorised to sell
6th November 2023 - United States |
US - General: The American Heart Association and 79 other leading national public health groups expressed their support for a ban on menthol cigarettes
23rd October 2023 - North America, United States |
US - General: Philip Morris International (PMI) has announced that it has submitted premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) and modified risk tobacco product
18th October 2023 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent its proposed rules to end the sale of menthol cigarettes and
2nd October 2023 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: The Community Access, Resources, and Empowerment (CARE) for Moms Act has been introduced in Congress by Democrats Dick Durbin and
US - Oregon: Washington County Circuit Court judge Andrew Erwin has ruled against the county’s flavoured tobacco ban. The ban was part of
22nd September 2023 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: Registration is now open for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s two-day public meeting (23rd and 24th October) on the premarket
19th September 2023 - United States |
US - Federal: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) is requesting nominations by 11th October for a
US - New York: Governor Kathy Hochul has signed public health legislation (A1025/S50) that amends the public buildings law to prohibit the sale of tobacco products in vending
US - California: Bill AB 935 has passed the Senate after amendments, which have been concurred in by the House, and has now
13th September 2023 - Illinois, United States |
US - General: Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois has sent a letter to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Robert Califf.
8th September 2023 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: The Food and Drug Administrations (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has launched new resources to help applicants navigate the
7th September 2023 - North America, United States |
US - Federal: Brian King, director of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) spoke at the Smoker