June 2015
This week, the ATS joined several other physician and public health groups in a letter to House of Representatives expressing opposition to provisions in the fiscal year 2016 Agriculture Appropriations bill that would undermine the authority of the Food and Drug Administration to regulate candy-flavored cigars and e-cigarettes. The provision, commonly referred to as the "grandfathering provision" would exempt them from an important FDA product review requirement and leave FDA with far fewer tools to take prompt action to protect children from the thousands of fruit and candy-flavored e-cigarettes and little cigars that flooded the market in recent years.
The ATS will continue to oppose legislation intended to delay or weaken FDA's authority to regulate all tobacco and nicotine products.
