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February 7th, 2010 
admin How did that one grab you? Okay let us start with the conclusion. CTP is the Center for Tobacco Products. This is a modern department that was made after the FDA gained the right to regulate tobacco in the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
Orbs, Strips and Sticks are tobacco products being marketed by RJ Reynolds (parent company Reynolds American) that are smokeless. Too involved in this tale are products called Ariva and Stonewall tablets. All of these deliver nicotine to the user without the use of a cigarette. They are likely safer than smoking and maybe even safer than snuff, chew or betel quid, but they are not without risk. Nicotine is a psychoactive drug. It alters one’s mood and it is addictive.
So RJR and Star Scientific, which owns the two other products, have fair received letters from this newly made CTP. The letters are requesting (demanding) information from both companies on these products, who is using them and what adverse effects have been found through the companies own research. The Center for Tobacco Products is concerned because these items are flavored and subtle and appear to be targeted to our youth. Of issue is that they may in and of themselves cause harm – and they may lead to a case of addiction which leads the user to seek out a product that delivers more nicotine more quickly, i.e. cigarettes.
Apparently, the CTP thinks that the thought that the product is meant for current adult smokers is hogwash. Current adult smokers are doing two things that make this somewhat unlikely. They are quitting smoking and/or they are dieing. It is too expected that whether the companies ARE targeting these current smokers, they want them to continue to smoke while using the tic tac or tooth pick or breath striplikeproducts in times and places where they cannot smoke.
I am happy the FDA/CTP and Office on Smoking and Health are being proactive. In reading this but, I recalled that Phillip Morris, parent company Altria, did NOT oppose the FDA r
By noreply@blogger.com (Deirdre Dingman, MPH, CTTS, CHES, PAPHS)
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