FDA Extends Comment Period on Proposed Cigar and e-Cigarette Restrictions

The Food and Drug Administration is allowing more time for comments on its proposal to extend its current restrictions on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco so they also apply to electronic “e-cigarettes,” cigars, pipe tobacco, nicotine gels, hookah tobacco, and nicotine dissolvables. The proposed rule issued by FDA in April would set requirements for registration, FDA review, and health warning labels on e-cigarettes and other tobacco products (see 14042426). Comments are now due Aug. 8.