WASHINGTON -- As part of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee's required report to the Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS), the committee will meet January 18-20 to continue discussing issues related to the nature and impact of the use of dissolvable tobacco products on the public health, including such use among children.
Discussion will include such topics as the composition and characteristics of dissolvable tobacco products, product use, potential health effects and marketing.
The FDA is encouraging interested parties who cannot attend to connect via webcast to each day's session.
TPSAC will address the risks and benefits to the population as a whole including users and nonusers of tobacco products, the increased or decreased likelihood that existing users of tobacco products will stop using such products and the increased or decreased likelihood that those who do not use tobacco products will start using such products.
At this meeting, the committee will hear and discuss presentations from the FDA, research institute RTI and various experts on dissolvable tobacco products.
Presentations will be given on the following topics:
- Use of Swedish oral tobacco and related health effects.
- Health effects of long term use of therapeutic nicotine replacement therapy.
- Chemistry and constituents of dissolvable tobacco products.
- Analysis of constituents and heavy metals found in dissolvable tobacco products.
- Topography of use of dissolvable tobacco products.
- Accidental poisoning from tobacco and dissolvable tobacco products.
- Effects of product packaging.
- Summary of the peer-reviewed literature on dissolvable tobacco products.
- Marketing research and marketing practices of dissolvable tobacco products.
- Behavioral effects of dissolvable tobacco products.
- Toxicological and physiological effects of dissolvable tobacco products.
- Youth perception of dissolvable tobacco products.
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