“State and Community Tobacco Control Regulation: What's Possible and What Works”

Indiana historically has had one of the highest smoking rates in the United States and is representative of a number of states with stagnant adult smoking rates. Additionally, Indiana has played an historic role as one of the frequent pilot sites used by tobacco companies to test new products, including the current testing of dissolvable tobacco by R.J. Reynolds under the brand name Camel Orbs. The recent enactment of the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” creates new possibilities to address state and local policies related to the time, manner and place in which tobacco products are marketed and sold through new legislative and regulatory opportunities for state and local authorities that were previously pre-empted by federal law. State and local tobacco programs will also have numerous opportunities to expand their efforts as new federal regulations are implemented by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).