Underutilisation of no-tobacco-sale orders against retailers that repeatedly sell to minors, 2015-2019, USA.

Importance: Research demonstrates that policies aimed at retailers who sell to minors must be strongly enforced to have an impact on youth usage rates.

Objectives: In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducts compliance checks, issues fines, and can order retailers to stop selling tobacco products (ie, no-tobacco-sale orders (NTSOs)) to enforce the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. We sought to assess FDA's utilisation of NTSOs.

Closing the Regulatory Gap for Synthetic Nicotine Products.

In July 2017 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new "comprehensive plan for tobacco and nicotine regulation.

Communicating Tobacco Product Information to the Public.

The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) requires tobacco companies to disclose information about the harmful chemicals in their products to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Emotion in the Law and the Lab: The Case of Graphic Cigarette Warnings.

The decision in (2012) to invalidate FDA's proposed graphic health warnings was based in part on the reasoning that the proposed graphic warnings cued emotional responses and therefore could not be considered "factual." However, this reasoning demonstrated the courts' fundamental misunderstanding of current behavioral-science research. In contrast to the courts' artificial separation of emotions from fact, we synthesize and interpret relevant research in basic decision sciences and describe an evidence-based characterization of how emotions influence consumer decision making through multiple mechanisms.

Evidentiary Support in Public Comments to the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products.

Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) were introduced into the US market in 2007, and until recently these devices were unregulated at the federal level. In 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asserting its intention to regulate ENDS and requesting public comments on numerous related issues, including potential limits on the sale of flavored ENDS. This article analyzes key comments submitted to the FDA on the issue of flavor regulation in ENDS and examines the weight and credibility of the evidence presented by both supporters and opponents of regulation.

Online E-cigarette Marketing Claims: A Systematic Content and Legal Analysis.

Objectives: Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), or e-cigarettes, are heavily marketed online. The purpose of our study was to perform a systematic identification and evaluation of claims made within ENDS retailer and manufacturer websites, and the legal status of such claims.

Methods: We employed a systematic search protocol with popular search engines using 6 terms: (1) e-cigarettes; (2) e-cigs; (3) e-juice; (4) e-liquid; (5) e-hookah; and (6) vape pen.