The federal government earned a failing grade in tobacco control last year despite expanding regulatory powers to products including vaping devices, cigars and shisha, according to the American Lung Association (ALA).

In its yearly survey of tobacco control efforts by federal and state governments, ALA said the Food and Drug Administration, “failed to act on removing menthol cigarettes from the marketplace,” while congratulating FDA for expanding its authority last August to previously unregulated tobacco products. “(FDA) also failed to act on reissuing requirements for graphic warning labels on cigarettes,” the association said in State of Tobacco Control 2017. The report is available at: https://goo.gl/PZF0Ox