iowa health groups push $1.50 per pack cigarette tax increase would hurt small businesses As cancer rates climb, Iowa

This past May, the Irish Ministry of Health proposed legislation that would ban the use of cigarette pack branding

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A Pragmatic Approach to Product Evaluation and Authorization It is worth considering the approach to premarket authorization recommended in the 2001 Institute of Medicine report Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction : In the absence of any claim of reduced exposure or reduced risk, manufacturers of tobacco products should be permitted to market new products or modify existing products without prior approval of the regulatory agency after informing the agency of the composition of the product and certifying that the product could not reasonably be expected to increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, pulmonary disease, adverse reproductive effects or other adverse health effects, compared to similar conventional tobacco products, as judged on the basis of the most current toxicological and epidemiological information

"Their unchanged content over decades, as well as their small size and lack of images, undermines the current warnings' effectiveness," the FDA said in a statement