Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee Purpose

The Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) advises the Commissioner or designee in discharging responsibilities as they relate to the regulation of tobacco products.
The Committee reviews and evaluates safety, dependence, and health issues relating to tobacco products and provides appropriate advice, information and recommendations to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs.
Specifically, the Committee will submit reports or recommendations on tobacco-related topics, including:

• The impact of the use of menthol in cigarettes on the public health, including such use among children, African Americans, Hispanics and other racial and ethnic minorities
• The nature and impact of the use of dissolvable tobacco products on the public health, including such use on children
• The effects of the alteration of nicotine yields from tobacco products and whether there is a threshold level below which nicotine yields do not produce dependence on the tobacco product involved
• Any application submitted by a manufacturer for a modified risk tobacco product

The Committee may provide recommendations to the Secretary regarding any regulations to be promulgated under the act and may review any applications for new tobacco products or petitions for exemption under Section 906(e) of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.  The Committee may consider and provide recommendations on any other matter as provided in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

Committee Membership

The Committee shall consist of 12 members including the Chair.  Members and the Chair are selected by the Commissioner or designee from among individuals knowledgeable in the fields of medicine, medical ethics, science, or technology involving the manufacture, evaluation, or use of tobacco products.  Members will be invited to serve for overlapping terms of up to fours years.  Almost all non-Federal members of this committee serve as Special Government Employees.  The Committee shall include nine technically qualified voting members, selected by the Commissioner or designee.  The nine voting members shall be physicians, dentists, scientists, or health care professionals practicing in the area of oncology, pulmonology, cardiology, toxicology, pharmacology, addiction, or any other relevant specialty.  One member shall be an officer or employee of a state or local government or of the Federal Government.  The final voting member shall be a representative of the general public.  In addition to the voting members, the Committee shall include 3 non-voting members who are identified with industry interests.  These members shall include one representative of the tobacco manufacturing industry, one representative of the interests of tobacco growers, and one representative of the interests of the small business tobacco manufacturing industry.  This final position can be filled on a rotating, sequential basis by representatives of different small business tobacco manufacturers based on areas of expertise relevant to the topics being considered by the committee.

Catch Up The Style Flow With Harley Davidson and Marlboro Man Leather Motorcycle Jacket

Harley Davidson is a word that gives an instant imagination of a rough and tough motor biker, wearing rugged attire, riding a stylish motorbike. Movies could not escape the Harley Davidson wave too, and year 1991 saw Harley Davidson and The Marlboro man hitting the screens. The movie acclaimed for bringing up a "unique culture" to the frontiers, and fashion industry could not escape from its influence too. The audience simply loved the bold apparel carried on by the movie stars. From the rebellious youth to professional bikers, every man on this planet wanted to look like Harley Davidson. Out of all the stylish clothing that the actors sported in the movie; the most prominent and influential piece of fashion wear was the Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man Jacket.

Chemotherapy is far more toxic than smoking cigarettes

Smoking toxic chemicals is about as idiotic as injecting them, and yet an entire medical industry now exists around the idea of injecting far deadlier chemicals than what you'll find in cigarette smoke. It's called chemotherapy, and it will kill you even faster than smoking an entire case of cigarettes a day.

Notice that the FDA does not require graphic warnings about chemotherapy? People vomiting, their muscles wasting away, their hair falling out and eyes looking hollow... that's the true face of chemo, and those who undergo it and somehow manage to come out alive are actually "chemo survivors" more than "cancer survivors."

FDA unfairly maligns tobacco plant with graphic new cigarette warning labels

The FDA has released nine new graphic warning labels that will be required on U.S. cigarettes, offering grotesque visual images designed to dissuade smokers from purchasing cigarettes. At first glance, this might seem like a clever and effective strategy for reducing deaths from smoking cigarettes. After all, there's a lot of scientific evidence that says smoking cigarettes is bad for you. But there's something missing in this whole debate that neither the FDA nor health authorities dare talk about: there is a huge difference between smoking chemically-laced "processed" cigarettes versus natural tobacco leaves.

In the minds of most people, "cigarettes" and "tobacco" are synonymous. If cigarettes are bad for you, then so is tobacco, they believe. In fact, we've all been trained to use the terms interchangeably.<br />
&nbsp;If someone is "addicted to cigarettes," we also say, without even thinking about it, that they are "addicted to tobacco." But as you'll learn here, tobacco is a plant while cigarettes are a highly processed product laced with a recipe of deadly synthetic chemicals.

"Tobacco" is not equivalent to "cigarettes" any more than an ear of corn is equivalent to a can of soda sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.

98 percent of Big Tobacco settlement money being used to fund something other than smoking prevention programs

The vast majority of the $246 billion rolling settlement awarded to all 50 U.S. states as part of the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement is apparently being spent on things other than the anti-smoking cigarette programs and campaigns for which the money was intended, according to a new report. Entitled Broken Promises to Our Children, the new report highlights the fact that, 14 years later, as little as two percent of the settlement money is actually going towards smoking prevention programs, while the other 98 percent is being funneled elsewhere into the unknown.

Each year, states are given varying amounts of the settlement money specifically to develop programs aimed at curbing tobacco use among citizens, and particularly among children. For the 2013 fiscal year, the states will collectively be given $25.7 billion in settlement revenues for the purpose of fighting smoking. But according to this latest report, which was issued by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, only about $460 million of this extremely large sum will actually be used for anti-tobacco purposes.

"This year, our report finds that states continue to spend only a miniscule portion of their tobacco revenues to fight tobacco use," says the

Japan Tobacco, the first half of the domestic and international cigarette shipments growth

Japan Tobacco Inc. from April 2012 to September 6 domestic cigarette sales of 59.6 billion, to be adversely affected after the earthquake in March 2011 than the company from April 2011 to September cigarette sales increased by 17 %. Japan Tobacco Company's core income from domestic cigarette sales grew by 16.8%, to 335 billion yen, adjusted EBITDA grew by 24.4%, to 154.2 billion yen.

 At the same time, Japan Tobacco International, Inc. in the six months from January to June, the total cigarette shipments of 212.4 billion, an increase of 3.7%, more than the total cigarette shipments from January 2011 to June. The total cigarette shipments grew partly because the company acquired Haggar cigarette and tobacco factories. Total cigarette shipments, the international flagship brand shipments grew 7.2%, to 130.8 billion. Japan Tobacco International's total core income increased by 3.7%, to 457 billion yen, its adjusted EBITDA grew 6.6%, to 172.9 billion yen.

 According to consolidated financial results announced on October 30, the results of operations to include other business, Japan Tobacco International, the company's total income increased 6%, to ¥ 10574000000000000 adjusted EBITDA grew 151%, to ¥ 329.1 .


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Greece: tobacco companies from the controversial due to trademark applications

British American Tobacco Company (Brand) with a distinctive attitude to the the trademark management committee of the Greek and Trademark Office proposed objections the the Kent cigarettes trademarks with the Community trademark containing a common trapezoidal composition, and components The Community trademark former Philip Morris products in Greece two trademark applications was questioned on the ground. British American Tobacco said that if the The trapezoidal composition trademarks of Philip Morris Products Company almost BAT trademarks trapezoidal, may cause confusion and dilution of its famous trademark.

The BAT also submitted a market survey to support his argument - which is rare in the Property Management Committee happening. Greece trademark management committee rejected all two oppose. About possible confusion, Greece trademarks Management Committee accepted the view of Philip Morris mentioned earlier Administrative Court jurisprudence, and believe in the word part of the trademark correlation biggest problem for consumers of tobacco products.