NAQC Newsroom: Tobacco Control

Groups Ask FDA to Act on 2013 Citizen Petition.

Thursday, November 19, 2020  
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
On November 9, 2020, sixty-eight public health and medical organizations sent the FDA a letter urging it to grant a long-pending Citizen Petition calling for the FDA to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes. The Tobacco Control Legal Consortium (now the Public Health Law Center) filed this Citizen Petition on April 12, 2013, on behalf of twenty leading national organizations, and the FDA has yet to provide a substantive response.
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