7 September 2022 By Marvin Tort, Business World In late June, I wrote about how a global public health issue — vaping by young people — had made its way to a US court. It was a case of legal review, before a Washington DC appeals court, after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …
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11 July 2022 By Tita C. Valderama, Source The Manila Times THE Supreme Court recently reversed a regional trial court decision to uphold the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate cigarettes and tobacco products. The ruling came 13 years after a petition was filed for the court’s intervention in the legal battle between …
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3 May 2021 Kenneth E. Warner, PhD, MEDPAGETODAY: — Actually implementing a ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars could take years Cigarette smoking annually claims the lives of 480,000 Americans, accounting for a sixth of all deaths (a seventh in the extraordinary pandemic year of 2020). That is more — a lot more — than …
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1 December 2020 Brendon Pierson, Westlaw Today: (Reuters) – A federal appeals court has upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products, rejecting challenges from the e-cigarette industry claiming the agency had violated the Constitution. A unanimous panel of the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the …
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