This Week in CTP -- Updates from the FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)

• FDA announced the first round of Stakeholder Discussion Sessions.
• The Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) will meet on August 30.
• FDA has awarded compliance and enforcement contracts to Maryland and Pennsylvania.
• Watch the archived webcast and presentations from the June 30 Web-Based Public Meeting on Issues Related to Development of Enforcement Plan.
• Watch the archived webcast and information from the July 19 Compliance Training for Tobacco Retailers Session in Boston.

Daily Updates by FDA on Tobacco Control Act

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Read more: The Latest FDA Propoganda on Tobacco

More "good" news from our friends at FDA.  Cigarette or smokeless tobacco sales to minors have been and already are illegal.  I guess the message isn't getting through to "the children".  Is it the American educational system, poor parenting, or can the kids just not hear the message because they are listening to music on their iPods?

Whatever the cause, Big Government to the rescue!  All I see is a lot of money being squandered, new Government Jobs, and another series of kicks at the Free Market.  Here is what FDA did for the children and to American tax-payers; tobacco using and non-using alike.

Welcome to Amerika 2010.

Read more: FDA Update on Tobacco Products - April 7, 2010

Internet Tobacco Purchase Ban Moves Forward...with help from your local convenience store!

The PACT Act, legislation to ban the sale of ALL tobacco products over the Internet, has been quietly moving forward.  Back on September 21, 2008, SnusCENTRAL.org published an incredibly incisive and brilliantly written detailed article entitled  Cigarettes, Snus; ALL Tobacco (except Cigars): Internet Purchases to be BANNED in the USA???? The bill didn't make it through the the 110th Congress before the Session ended.  It was quickly re-introduced during the current 111th Congressional Session to some but little fanfare.

Read more: PACT Act Vote Next Week: Bans internet Tobacco Sales!