In 2009, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act authorized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco. This federal law requires products introduced to the marketplace after Feb. 15, 2007, to receive marketing authorization from the FDA prior to being offered for sale. The same marketing authorization requirement was later extended to cigars, pipe tobacco, electronic cigarettes, vapor products, hookah and alternative nicotine products, effective Aug. 8, 2016. The deadline to file premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) has changed several times. Following a lawsuit by public health groups, the District Court of Maryland in July 2019 ordered the FDA to bring forward its due date from Aug. 8, 2022, to May 12, 2020.
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