Here are some of their top priorities in 2022:
In the U.S., where the youth e-cigarette crisis continues and the FDA has yet to take decisive action, we will:
- Make the strongest possible case for the FDA to eliminate all flavored and high-nicotine e-cigarettes – and continue to defend the FDA’s authority from legal attacks by the tobacco industry.
- Address the growing threat of synthetic nicotine (nicotine made in a lab, rather than derived from tobacco), which some e-cigarette manufacturers are now using to evade FDA regulation.
- Fight at the state and local level to eliminate all flavored tobacco products and counter increasingly aggressive opposition from the tobacco industry.
- Critical fight: We’re gearing up to defend California’s statewide ban on flavored e-cigarettes, menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, which is on the ballot in Fall 2022.
- Deepen our work to reduce the devastating health disparities caused by tobacco use.
- Key deadline: By April 2022, the FDA must keep its promise and issue proposed rules to prohibit menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
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