07 May 2010.
The FDA has been busy setting up its Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee, as well as issuing a final rule to restrict the access and marketing of tobacco products to youths.
Marketing – labelling, advertising and promotion
Prohibits tobacco brand-name sponsorship of any athletic, musical or other social or cultural event, or any team or entry in those events;
Prohibits using a trade or brand name of a non-tobacco product for a cigarette or smokeless tobacco product, unless the name was so used on 1 January 1995;
Requires that audio advertising use only words with no music or sound effects.
FDA Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee - Voting members
Chair: Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS, professor and Flora L. Thornton Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles;
Acting executive secretary: Cristi L. Stark, MS Center for Tobacco Products
Neal L. Benowitz, MD, professor, chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Departments of Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco;
Mark Stuart Clanton, MD, MPH, chief medical officer, American Cancer Society;
Gregory Niles Connolly, DMD, MPH, acting director, Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health;
Karen L. DeLeeuw, MSW, director, Center for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment;
Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD, Forster family professor in Cancer Prevention and Professor of Psychiatry, Tobacco Use Research Center;
Patricia Nez Henderson, MPH, MD, vice president, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health;
Jack E. Henningfield, PhD, vice president, Research and Health Policy, Pinney Associates; and
Melanie Wakefield, PhD, director, Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Victoria/Australia.
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