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FDA's Deeming Regulations for E-Cigarettes, Cigars, and All Other Tobacco Products

Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of disease and death in the United States.1 Since 2009, FDA has regulated cigarettes, smokeless, and roll-your-own tobacco. FDA finalized a rule, effective August 8, 2016, to regulate all tobacco products. 

How Do the Regulations Affect You?

Manufacturer?

Do you ...

  • mix e-liquids?
  • make or modify any type of vaping device?
  • mix loose tobacco for people to smoke in a pipe?
  • roll or blend tobacco for cigars?
  • manufacture loose tobacco for consumers to roll their own cigarettes?
  • import tobacco products?
  • manufacture any tobacco product?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be a manufacturer.

Retailer?

Do you ...

  • sell cigars?
  • sell hookah tobacco?
  • sell e-cigarettes or e-liquids?
  • sell any tobacco product?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are a retailer.

If you mix e-liquids, make or modify vaporizers, or mix loose tobacco, and you also sell these products, you may be regulated as both a retailer and a manufacturer.


What if I am both a manufacturer and a retailer?


See commonly asked questions about FDA's deeming regulations for e-cigarettes, cigars, and all other tobacco products


Webinars

FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) hosts a series of webinars on federal tobacco regulations to provide compliance education and information to retailers and small business manufacturers. 

Watch additional FDA tobacco compliance webinars.


Final Rule and Accompanying Documents


Guidance Documents



 

 
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