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Statement from Cheryl G. Healton, DrPH, President and CEO WASHINGTON, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin - the leading authority on public health in the United States - released a report providing the most current and comprehensive analysis of tobacco's impact on our nation's young people. Drawing on research from a number of disciplines, the report examines the social, environmental, advertising and marketing influences that...

Elected Officials Must Step Up Fight to Protect Our Children WASHINGTON, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) The U.S. Surgeon General's report released today makes two things perfectly clear: The tobacco industry's marketing is still addicting America's kids, and elected officials - especially in the states - need to do more...

The Surgeon General released a report today alongside a campaign that addresses smoking among youth and young adults. For every tobacco-related death, two people under the age 26 pick up the practice. That's the startling news outlined in today's report. The report: "Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: We Can Make the Next Generation Tobacco-Free" is accompanied by a Surgeon General video released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and...

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The e cigarette is under fire again by special interests and misguided politicians using now debunked FDA testing as their reasoning for a ban of the electronic cigarette in public places. According to science, it is the combusted plant material that is inhaled deep into the lungs that cause over 99% of the harm generated by tobacco. Electronic cigarettes have the same or lesser amounts of these nicotine based chemicals than...

New Survey Data Indicate Need for Policies that Address Dual Use WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Since the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority over tobacco products, the United States began to implement its regulatory authority to curb an epidemic that kills more than 400,000 people each year. To date, however, the FDA has not exercised its authority to assert jurisdiction on...

A new Institute of Medicine report specifies the types of research that the Food and Drug Administration should require before allowing tobacco companies to sell or advertise 'modified risk' tobacco products as being capable of reducing the health risks of tobacco use. While modified risk tobacco products could be one part of a comprehensive strategy to lower tobacco-related death and disease in the U.S., especially among tobacco users who are unable or unwilling to quit entirely, little is...

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Secretaries of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and of Health and Human Services, U.S. Surgeons General, and Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, back to the Johnson Administration, known as The Citizens' Commission to Protect the Truth, today urged the United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Ron Kirk, to accept the determination of a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel...

A ruling and injunction by District Judge Richard Leon blocking tobacco companies from being forced to display graphic images on cigarette packs and advertising, was appealed on Tuesday by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Judge Leon, in the widely expected ruling, said the tobacco companies would likely succeed in their challenge to the new warnings as unconstitutional because it compels speech in violation of the First Amendment and would cause them irreparable harm if not...

In an effort to curb underage smoking, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conducted a sting operation to locate retailers who illegally sell tobacco to minors. The FDA made 27,500 inspections nationwide and found only 1,200 retailers who needed warning letters for allowing the sales to underage individuals. Ann Simoneau, Director of compliance and enforcement for FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products told Convenience Store News, “The fact that youths can walk into 1,200 retail...

Warning Letters issued to more than 1,200 tobacco retailers SILVER SPRING, Md., Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent Warning Letters to more than 1,200 retailers, the majority of which respond to violations relating to selling tobacco to minors, as part of its ongoing effort to reduce tobacco use among children. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090824/FDALOGO) While most retail establishments inspected by the FDA have been found to...