Concerned that new types of cigarettes, snuff and other tobacco products are filling store shelves despite a law meant to prevent the introduction of new tobacco products, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) joined with 35 other organizations to demand that the FDA explains what it will do about this serious public health concern. A letter to Mitchell Zeller, J.D.,

The American Lung Association’s “State of Tobacco Control 2016” sounds the alarm about the troubling increase of youth tobacco use in our nation. While significant progress has been made in reducing youth cigarette smoking—an almost 42 percent decline in high school smoking rates since 2011—youth use of other tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and hookah, is skyrocketing. This report finds that the significant