FDA

The Premarket Tobacco Application (PMTA) was rolled out on August 8th, 2016. This means new responsibilities for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The organisation must deliver market authorisations for any product in the electronic…

For decades, movie stars were the unofficial mascots of the cigarette industry. Internal documents revealed years after the fact indicated that cigarette companies rolled out product placement from 1927 to 1990!…

In the last few months, the FDA has been keeping constant pressure on Juul because of the company’s popularity amongst teenagers. The American health organization has demanded that the company…

Former director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Ned Sharpless has just taken the position of FDA commissioner. The nomination was made in the wake of Scott Gottlieb’s unexpected resignation, declared only…

Just how far is the FDA willing to go to slander the electronic cigarette in the eyes of public opinion? The FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s latest words suggest that vaping…

The announcement was made on March 11: the Donald Trump administration is seriously considering applying a new tax—called a “user fee”— to all vaping products. The money made from these…