FDA To Announce Revised Tobacco Action Plan Mid-November

FDA by mid-November will announce a new comprehensive tobacco and nicotine action plan focused on curbing youth use of and addiction to e-cigarettes, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Wednesday (Oct. 31). The plan, according to Gottlieb, will be driven in part by recent discussions between FDA and leaders of five major e-cigarette companies -- Altria Group, JUUL Labs, Reynolds American, Fontem Ventures and Japan Tobacco International USA. Since its September enforcement blitz of e-cigarette retailers, during which FDA also put...