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An excise tax on e-liquids is in limbo after the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned a partial veto by the US state’s governor, saying he overstepped his authority
Wisconsin governor Tony Evers has announced that his administration will work to curb youth vaping in the state through various actions including bills to ban sales to minors and an e-cig ban in schools
The $83.4bn, two-year Wisconsin state budget proposal for 2020-2021 proposes a tax of 71% on e-cigs products, by placing them under the existing state tobacco tax
This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filed a memo in opposition to a motion for a summary judgment in US District Court in Maryland for a lawsuit against the tobacco deeming extensions. The lawsuit arose from the FDA s defence of its extension of the initial deeming rule compliance deadlines.
Commissioner Gottlieb seemingly wants to streamline the premarket approval process
The lack of long-term scientific studies into e-cigarettes is a common complaint. But the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (CTRI) is now starting to address that through a multi-year investigation of e-cigs’ health effects, backed by $3.7m in funding from the U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute.
U.S. tobacco maker Reynolds American is preparing to test-market a heat-not-burn product which it hopes the regulator will approve as reduced-risk.
A new proposal clarifying that use of e-cigarettes should be allowed indoors, and explicitly distinguishing it from tobacco smoking, has been approved by a senate committee in the Wisconsin state legislature.
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