FDA Seeks Public Input on Tobacco Regulation
Have an opinion or idea on how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should exercise its new power to regulate tobacco products? If you do, the FDA wants to hear it, advertising in the Federal Register that they are accepting public comment on tobacco regulation and enforcement under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed June 22 by President Obama.
According to the Federal Register notice, the FDA is looking for the public’s view on topics from the contents of tobacco products to advertising and marketing of tobacco products.
“We're interested in receiving input from across the country as the FDA begins to implement this important new authority intended to reduce the enormous toll of suffering and death caused by tobacco products in the United States,” said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, Commissioner of Food and Drugs in a press release. “We look forward to the public's response.”
Keep in mind that the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act did not give the FDA the authority to ban tobacco products altogether.
How to Submit Comments: Comments must be received by Sept. 29, 2009, and can be submitted online at the Regulations.gov web site, or via surface mail to:
Division of Dockets Management (HFA–305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 106
Rockville, MD 20852
Comments submitted by mail should refer to Docket No. FDA-2009-N-0294.
Also See:
FDA’s Power Under the New Tobacco Control Law
List of Organs Damaged by Smoking Expanded
'Lite' Cigarettes No Safer
Comments
i do not feel the government should be involved with or allowed to regulate the use of tobacco products. prohibition of alcohol products failed miserably and the ability to levy “sin” taxes excedes our governments authority.