Law updates: Changes for Alabama Vape laws and the ugly reality of the PMTA deadline

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Good evening All.

Alabama has new this to worry about with the New Vaping laws. And in case you have missed all the commotion over the PMTA deadline, here is a short video discussing the ugly truth,


Alabama vaping laws changed yesterday, as announced by AL.com.
The new law implemented changes such as:

• Vape shops are required to have a tobacco license. According to the Alabama Retail Association, almost 8,000 retailers sell tobacco products, though since licenses were previously not required it’s unclear how many offer vaping products.
• Advertising of vaping and other alternative nicotine products as healthy options to replace smoking are prohibited.
• The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board will regulate e-cigarettes and vaping products.
• Restricts selling of vaping and nicotine products to anyone under age 19. Violating this provision could result in a fine of up to $300 and up to 30 days in jail.
• Prohibits advertising vaping products near schools or opening vape shops within 1,000 feet of a school, childcare facility, church, youth center or public library, playground or park.
• Limits billboard advertising for vaping liquid to offers for only three flavors – tobacco, mint or menthol. Critics said fruit-flavored vaping liquids attracts younger users.

Alabama’s vaping laws changing Aug. 1



Snippet | Surviving the PMTA Deadline

Mountains of paperwork, clinical trials, endless frustration and most of all, heartbreak. This describes the onerous Premarket Tobacco Application process (or PMTA) now thrust upon the vaping industry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: it could destroy vaping as we know it.

In this RegWatch preview regulatory lawyer and FDA compliance expert Deanna Clark-Esposito shares insight into the PMTA process and talk through some of the challenges to surviving the PMTA deadline.




I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.