On August 8, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began restricting retailers’ ability to sell additional tobacco products beyond simply cigarettes. Such products include e-cigarettes and vaping products, rather than only traditional combustible cigarettes. These products became subject to minimum purchasing age (18) requirements and associated customer age identification verification requirements, as well as marketing and advertising restrictions and a prohibition of vending machine sales of e-cigarettes. The rules also impose these restrictions on hookah, pipe tobacco, and cigars.
10-07-2016The Food and Drug Administration’s “deeming regulation,” imposing restrictions on e-cigarettes, vape pens, as well as cigars and pipe tobacco, contains several important restrictions on tobacco retailers that take effect August 8.
08-05-2016The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized a new regulation that would extend its regulatory authority to cover all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vaping products, rather than only traditional combustible cigarettes.
05-09-2016Orton Motor Company won a significant victory for tobacco retailers in recent weeks, successfully convincing a judge that the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products has exceeded its authority in its tobacco enforcement efforts. The legal battle was waged alongside the National Association for Convenience Stores.
02-29-2016The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act contains a penalty structure under which penalties increase in severity for each successive violation a retailer commits (e.g., the penalty for a […]
12-03-2015The Food and Drug Administration has issued a rule to extend its authority to regulate tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vape-pens, which are currently unregulated at the federal level. In […]
12-03-2015The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 15 issued orders to stop the sale and distribution of four R.J. Reynolds cigarette products because they did not meet requirements set forth in the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
09-18-2015Retailers must remove four tobacco products made by Jash International from store shelves after the Food and Drug Administration ordered a halt in their sale and distribution.
02-25-2014The federal government last week formally asked for a full court review of the U.S. Court of Appeals decision that struck down the FDA’s graphic labeling requirements for cigarette packages.
10-15-2012The McLane-黑料社区Foundation Index is produced quarterly and offers 黑料社区members the opportunity to compare their weekly convenience store purchases with travel plazas and truckstops convenience stores served by McLane.
09-10-2012U.S. Court of Appeals struck down the law requiring the graphic health warnings.
09-10-2012