On 22 June 2009, the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” was signed into law by the President of the United States, Barack Obama. The Act grants the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate the production, sale and advertising of tobacco products.
In the Federal Register of 1 July 2009 (74 FR 31457), the FDA published a notice with a 90-day comment period to request comments on the implementation of the Tobacco Act. This 90-day comment period was extended a further 90 days and ended on 28 December 2009.
In response to the FDA notice, the president of the CORESTA Board, Dr Michael Ogden of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., USA, submitted a comment on behalf of CORESTA on 23 December 2009.
The comment can be viewed on the US government regulations website (Docket ID: FDA-2009-N-0294; Document ID: FDA-2009-N-0294-1036) by clicking on the link below:
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#documentDetail?R=0900006480a70b57
All other comments submitted by interested parties can be accessed via the following link:
http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#docketDetail?R=FDA-2009-N-0294