Abstract

After a decade of fits and starts in regulating commercial tobacco products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has built the infrastructure needed for robust tobacco product regulation. This article lays out a vision for the FDA in its second decade of tobacco product regulation. To realize the promise of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the FDA must move quickly to adopt high-impact tobacco product regulation, define and operationalize the public health standard in a way that advances health equity, and bring all of its authority and resources to bear to reduce health disparities. In addition, the agency must engage more productively with states to reduce and eliminate tobacco use.

摘要

经过十年对商业烟草产品的监管时断时续，美国食品和药物管理局 (FDA) 已经建立了强有力的烟草产品监管所需的基础设施。本文阐述了 FDA 在其烟草产品监管的第二个十年中的愿景。为实现《家庭吸烟预防和烟草控制法》的承诺，FDA 必须迅速采取行动，采用高影响烟草产品法规，以促进健康公平的方式定义和实施公共卫生标准，并发挥其所有权威和为减少健康差距而承担的资源。此外，该机构必须更有效地与各州合作，以减少和消除烟草使用。