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Thomas A. Briant

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Thomas A. Briant

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Tobacco

Providence, R.I., Coupon and Promotion Ban Appeal Update

Last year, a federal lawsuit was filed against the City of Providence, R.I., seeking to overturn two tobacco-related ordinances. One of the ordinances bans adult consumers from redeeming tobacco produ...

Tobacco

State Tobacco Tax Update

With some 40 state legislatures either having adjourned their 2013 regular legislative sessions or will have adjourned their session by the end of June, the outcome of cigarette and tobacco tax increa...

Tobacco

States and E-Cigarette Legislation

With the continued growth of the e-cigarette category in terms of the number of e-cigarette manufacturers, the number of brands on the market, and the increasing consumer demand for electronic cigaret...

Tobacco

U.S. Senate Seeks Tobacco Tax Increases

Five U.S. Senators have introduced Senate Bill Number 826, which would increase the cigarette tax by $.94 per pack for a new federal rate of $1.95 per pack, and impose tax parity on other tobacco prod...

Tobacco

Legal Age Becoming An Issue

First, it was cigarette vending machines. Then, it was self-service displays in retail stores. Smoking bans followed with a subsequent effort to raise cigarette and tobacco excise taxes. More recently...

Tobacco

NATO Launches Campaign Against Federal Tax Increases

NATO is launching a national petition drive among the association’s tobacco store members to oppose President Obama’s proposal to increase the federal cigarette tax by 94 cents per pack in...

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FDA Regulatory Update

June marks the fourth anniversary of the FDA’s regulation of tobacco products.

Tobacco

Obama Seeks to Raise Cigarette and Tobacco Taxes a Second Time

Just four years ago in 2009, President Obama signed into law the single largest increase in the federal cigarette and tobacco tax rates in the history of the country. At that time, the federal cigaret...

Tobacco

Local Governments Seek More Retail Tobacco Restrictions

It began in 2011 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) using stimulus funds to give tobacco-related grants to local governments to adopt additional restrictions on the promotion an...

Tobacco

FDA Issues Report on Retail Compliance Inspections

This month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a report that summarizes the agency’s retail compliance inspection program that is on-going in 41 states, the District of Columbia a...

Tobacco

FDA Decides Not to Appeal Court Decision on Graphic Warnings

According to a news report issued today by the Associated Press, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter on Friday, March 15 to House Speaker John Boehner informing him that the U.S. Food and ...

Tobacco

New FDA Director to Participate in Panel at NATO Show

Mitchell Zeller, the new director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), has agreed to participate in a NATO-FDA panel discussion at the upcoming 2013 NATO Show. The NATO-FDA panel dis...

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