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Schroeder Institute researchers raise questions about safety, usage and future implications of new nicotine delivery productsDevices marketed as "electronic cigarettes" are in reality crude drug delivery systems for refined nicotine, posing unknown risks with little new benefits to smokers, according to tobacco control experts.In a "Perspective" published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Legacy's Steven A. Schroeder National Institute for...
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Devices marketed as "electronic cigarettes" are in reality crude drug delivery systems for refined nicotine, posing unknown risks with little new benefits to smokers, according to tobacco control experts.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101101/DC86294LOGO) In a "Perspective" published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Legacy's Steven A. Schroeder National Institute for...
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers are getting a glimpse of graphic images that will be alternating on all cigarette packages and advertisements within 15 months--an effort by health officials to discourage smoking by bringing Americans face-to-face with tobacco-related disease. The Food and Drug Administration unveiled the nine color images--including some of bodies ravaged by disease--at a Tuesday news conference. The images, which are paired with text health...
Statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids WASHINGTON, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The large, graphic cigarette health warnings unveiled today by the Food and Drug Administration represent a milestone in the fight against tobacco use in the United States. The stark new warnings will provide a much-needed boost to efforts to prevent kids from smoking, encourage smokers to quit and make sure all Americans fully understand the deadly consequences of...
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Lung Association heralds the announcement today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its final rule requiring graphic health warning labels on all cigarette packages and advertisements. At long last, starting in the fall of 2012, these large, graphic warning labels will appear on the top 50 percent of the front and back of all cigarette packs - replacing the 25 year-old warnings that are ineffective and hidden...
Amendment Would Cripple Efforts to Protect Kids from Tobacco Statement of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association and American Lung Association WASHINGTON, June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected an amendment offered to an appropriations bill by U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) that would have given a $392 million gift to the tobacco industry and crippled efforts to...
GREENSBORO, N.C., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO), the third largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the United States, today announced the appointment of Dr. Neil L. Wilcox, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) science policy analyst, as senior vice president of product-related regulations and chief compliance officer. In the newly created role, Dr. Wilcox will oversee and manage regulatory affairs, including plans to achieve regulatory compliance with...
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Statement of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association and American Lung Association: Less than two years after Congress passed a bipartisan law to protect America's kids from the tobacco industry, the House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved an amendment by Representative Denny Rehberg (R-MT) that would weaken critical provisions of the law and unleash the tobacco...
LOS ANGELES, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a highly public effort to compel the FDA and the World Health Organization to recognize, and act on, the opportunity that the electronic cigarette represents for helping to end the tyranny of tobacco inhalation, The Safe Cig, an electronic cigarette company, has published an open letter to the World Health Organization in The New York Times. The provocative letter, which challenges the FDA's current stance on electronic cigarettes, also...
SILVER SPRING, Md., May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it issued 11 warning letters last week to online retailers for illegally marketing tobacco products with misleading or unsubstantiated claims or descriptors indicating that they can be used to reduce harm or the risk of tobacco-related disease. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090824/FDALOGO) "There is no known safe tobacco product. It is illegal for tobacco companies...
