Table 1.

Tobacco regulatory roles by the United States Food and Drug Administration

Center for Tobacco Products: Implementation of Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

Require disclosure of tobacco products

Create standards for tobacco products

Review premarket applications for new or modified risk tobacco products

Establish and enforce tobacco sales and marketing restrictions

Require strong health warnings on tobacco packaging

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research:

Regulate smoking-related products marketed for therapeutic benefit

Ensure that health benefits of therapies outweigh known risks

Ensure truth in advertising

Oversee research, development, manufacture, and marketing of drugs