Trump calls for ending FDA authority for regulating tobacco

By Kimberly Leonard

Published February 10, 2020 6:02pm ET

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Trump calls for ending FDA authority for regulating tobacco — A man smokes a Japan Tobacco Inc. Mevius brand cigarette in an arranged photograph in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Japan Tobacco, the maker of Mevius, Winston and Camel cigarettes, is expected to announce its third quarter earnings on Feb. 5. | (Yuriko Nakao/Bloomberg)

President Trump has proposed removing the Food and Drug Administration’s responsibility for tobacco regulation in his latest budget request, an ask likely to be met with backlash from tobacco control advocates.

The budget request, released Monday, calls for creating an entirely new agency nested under the Department of Health and Human Services to regulate tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.

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