What laws govern tobacco use and tobacco sales in the united states?

Law, legislation, and regulation play an important role in tobacco control. The section about Laws and Treaties provides resources on signed and enacted tobacco control measures, such as the WHO FCTC. To learn more about legislation that involves the tobacco industry, visit the page tilted “Legislation Involving the Tobacco Industry”. The section about Regulation of Smoking and Tobacco Products includes links to regulatory bodies, proposed product regulations, and current tobacco use regulations.

This site includes a timeline of legislative acts affecting tobacco such as the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, Cigarette Safety Act of 1984, Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972, and many others.

 ANR has tracked, collected, and analyzed tobacco control laws around the country since the early 1980s, and provides maps, lists, and data about state and local laws for clean air, youth access restrictions, advertising and promotion restrictions, tobacco excise taxes, and conditional use permits.

This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report reviews the history, scope and impact of smoke-free air laws across the country and their growing popularity.

A federal statute of the United States, signed into law by President Obama on June 22, 2009. The act gives the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate the tobacco industry.

In April 2010, the Australian government announced that it would introduce legislation to mandate plain packaging of tobacco products from 1 January 2012 with full implementation by 1 December 2012. This measure forms part of a comprehensive suite of reforms the Australian government is implementing to reduce smoking and its harmful effects.

Tobacco Plain Packaging Act of 2011

The FCA is made up of over 350 organizations from more than 100 countries working on the development, ratification and implementation of the international treaty, the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This website keeps a running total of the number of people that have died, known as the Death Clock, since the first meeting of the working committee in 1999.

The WHO FCTC was developed in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic and is an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health.

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Protocols and Guidelines

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Parties and Signatories

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Implementation Database

This site includes a timeline of legislative acts affecting tobacco such as the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, Cigarette Safety Act of 1984, Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972, and many others.

 This website provides searchable summaries of more than 600 legal cases regarding smoking in the workplace and other places. Whether the dispute is about smoke in the home, disability discrimination, prisons, employment, or child custody, this is where you will find information about it.

 The O’Neill Institute is researches the use of litigation as an approach for reducing tobacco use, partners with domestic and international organizations to draft shadow reports and works with advocates in low-and middle-income countries to target rights-based and constitutional arguments to their specific cultural, economic, and political environments.

This blog features the latest US tobacco litigation news.

A listing and links to state level litigation against tobacco companies.

Under the Master Settlement Agreement, seven tobacco companies agreed to change the way tobacco products are marketed and pay the states an estimated $206 billion. The tobacco companies also agreed to finance a $1.5 billion anti-smoking campaign, open previously secret industry documents, and disband industry trade groups which Attorneys General maintain conspired to conceal damaging research from the public.

This document includes excerpts from U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler’s 2006 opinion that briefly summarize the major findings and conclusions of the court with respect to the evidence presented in the case against the major tobacco industry by the Department of Justice.

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler’s 2006 Final Ruling Against Major Tobacco.

This document is a compilation of select quotes and findings from the full legal document. This resource highlights excerpts of the court’s findings that help tell the story in a direct and easily understandable way.

On September 22, 1999, the United States filed a lawsuit against the major cigarette manufacturers and two industry affiliated organizations. The Department of Justice provides links to all the litigation documents.

Statement by Matt Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, regarding Judge Leon’s ruling against graphic warning labels.

Judge Leon’s Memorandum Opinion & Order from the 2012 ruling to block implementation of new, graphic cigarette warning labels in the U.S.

This resource highlights litigation between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and various major tobacco companies pertaining to the FDA’s 2011 ruling requiring larger, more prominent cigarette health warnings on packaging and advertisements.

On August 24, 2012, The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the February 2012 ruling of Judge Leon that stopped the U.S. FDA from implementing regulations to require large graphic warnings on cigarette packs and on all cigarette advertising.

Worldwide examples of recent, pending, or under appeal legal challenges against tobacco control legislation.

This interactive American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network map shows the level of smoke-free legislation in each state.

 The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has compiled numerous fact sheets discussing the Master Settlement Agreement. Topics include state payments, restrictions, shortcomings, securitizing payments, and many other issues.

How does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decide whether or not to allow a new tobacco product to enter the market? To help explain this regulatory process, the Consortium has developed a 6-part series of short video clips on the FDA’s premarket review of tobacco products.

This site includes a timeline of legislative acts affecting tobacco such as the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, Cigarette Safety Act of 1984, Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972, and many others.

The Tobacco Labeling Resource Center provides information on global plain packaging research, reports, and regulations. The website also provides a toolkit to serve as a guide in implementing FCTC Article 11.

The FDA oversees the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Some of the Agency’s responsibilities under the law include setting performance standards, reviewing premarket applications for new and modified risk tobacco products, requiring new warning labels, and establishing and enforcing advertising and promotion restrictions. This resource is also available in Spanish.

The STATE System, developed by the CDC Office of Smoking and Health, is an interactive application that houses and displays current and historical state-level data on tobacco. Trend data, interactive maps, and state comparisons are available for topics such as legislation for indoor smoke-free policies, vending machines, smoke-free school campuses, and advertising restrictions.

 The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has compiled numerous fact sheets about FDA regulation of tobacco products.

The Federal Regulation of Tobacco Fact Sheets are a series of fact sheets, prepared by the Public Health Law Center, that will aid in the understanding and evaluation of complex federal tobacco legislation and help state and local advocates and policymakers address legal issues raised by the new legislation and take advantage of the new opportunities it creates.

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