Cigarettes Do Not Have FDA Approval

Misbar’s investigation found that the FDA does not approve of cigarettes or any other tobacco product. As stated on their own website, the FDA doesn’t approve tobacco products because there is no tobacco product that they consider safe.

Social media users are confused on the difference between FDA approval and FDA regulation. CNET describes FDA approval as when the agency decides that the benefits of using the product are greater than any risk it could pose to the public. The FDA can only regulate cigarettes, exemplified when in 2000 The Supreme Court ruled the FDA had overstepped the power granted to it by Congress. The case originated when the FDA changed their tactics 

The agency had cited for years the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 as prohibiting them from banning cigarettes, granted that cigarette manufacturers did not say that cigarettes had any health benefits. The Clinton administration pushed for heavier regulations of tobacco by the FDA, which prompted the findings by the Supreme Court for the FDA to back down.

This disinformation belies efforts the FDA managed to make anyway, hopeful to ensure that future generations never begin smoking. On April 29, the FDA announced it will commit itself to advance standards that ban menthol additives from cigarettes and cigars. This is a follow-up to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which banned the use of all flavors, other than menthol, from cigarettes and cigars. Thanks to the creation of the 2009 act, “The Real Cost” campaign was created — which has lowered the number of teenagers taking up smoking by between 350,000 and 587,000 in only the two years following its creation in 2014.