A step in the right direction--House Leadership Calls for a Change to the Grandfather Date

[JustJulie]

Just before Thanksgiving, Rep. John Boehner (House Speaker), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (House Majority Leader), and Rep. Fred Upton (Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee) cosigned a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Burwell. (The full text of this appears in the blog linked below.) In this letter they asked the FDA to consider changing the February 15, 2007 grandfather date for newly deemed tobacco products. They go on to suggest that the grandfather date be moved, perhaps to April 25, 2014, the day that FDA’s proposed regulations were submitted, or to a future date when the regulations are finalized.

See CASAA's analysis here: CASAA: A Step in the Right Direction: House Leadership Calls for a Change in the Grandfather Date for the Tobacco Control Act.

Stay tuned . . . Call to Action will be issued in the coming days.

 

[mountaingal]

That would be good news for sure. Otherwise we will be stuck with old technology!

 

[mountaingal]

Any guesses who picked 2007 as a date? (Big tobacco?)

 

[JustJulie]

Any guesses who picked 2007 as a date? (Big tobacco?)

Well, the Tobacco Control Act is sometimes referred to with some disdain as the Philip Morris Protection Act.