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Sep 24, 2014
Press Release
Today Reps. Waxman, Dingell, Pallone, and DeGette, and Sens. Harkin, Rockefeller, Durbin, and Blumenthal released a new report that found that hundreds of tobacco advertisements and images glorifying smoking and e-cigarettes appear in magazines with large teen readerships.
Aug 8, 2014
Press Release
U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Dick Durbin, U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman and 20 other Members of Congress today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) expressing concern about FDA calculations regarding the proposed “deeming rule,” which would extend the FDA’s regulatory authority to electronic...
Aug 8, 2014
Press Release
Today Ranking Members Henry A. Waxman, Frank Pallone, Jr., and Diana DeGette called on the FDA to use its enforcement authority to take immediate action to protect children from the harms of tobacco. Once FDA finalizes its proposed regulation to assert jurisdiction over various types of tobacco products, like e-cigarettes and cigars, the agency could do this by bringing enforcement...
Aug 4, 2014
Press Release
Thirteen Members of Congress today called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take immediate action to protect young people from predatory e-cigarette marketing and distribution tactics that are straight out of big tobacco’s playbook. According to the journal Pediatrics, the number of children aged 12 to 17 years exposed to e-cigarette marketing increased by 256% between 2011 and...
Apr 14, 2014
Press Release
Eleven Democratic lawmakers from the Senate and the House of Representatives today released a report that shows a dramatic recent increase in the marketing of electronic cigarettes – or e-cigarettes – with extensive resources being dedicated to social media, sponsorship of youth-oriented events, and television and radio advertisements that reach substantial youth audiences. The...
Apr 8, 2014
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Examining the Implementation of the Tobacco Control Act.” At this hearing, the Subcommittee reviewed a bill introduced by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), H.R. 389, the Transparency in Tobacco User Fees Act of 2013.
Feb 12, 2014
Press Release
Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Sen. Tom Harkin, and Rep. Peter Welch sent a letter to California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, and Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell urging them to classify electronic cigarettes as cigarettes under the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) to prevent e-cigarette companies from targeting youth and getting them...
Feb 5, 2014
Press Release
Today Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman released the following statement on CVS Caremark’s announcement that it will stop selling tobacco products by October 1:
Jan 17, 2014
Press Release
Today Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman released the following statement on the release of The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General: