In March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it was cutting more than 10,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring that will impact operations at the U.S.
ACS CAN worked with tobacco control partners in filing numerous amicus briefs supporting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in cases across the nation in which the agency issued marketing denial orders (MDOs) for flavored e-cigarette products as part of the premarket review process.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been issuing marketing denial orders (MDOs) for certain flavored e-cigarette products in accordance with Family Smoking and Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA).
ACS CAN and other tobacco control partners have helped defend rules requiring graphic warnings on cigarette packs and advertisements throughout over a decade of litigation.
The citizens of California voted to ban the sale of most flavored tobacco products in a ballot initiative on November 9, 2022. The tobacco industry attempted to get an emergency stay of the law by petitioning the US Supreme Court in the case of RJ Reynolds v.
After the massive Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between states and the tobacco industry regarding fraud associated with the sale and marketing of cigarettes, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) decided to file a similar lawsuit against the industry.
ACS CAN and other tobacco control groups urged the US Attorney General to ensure that attorneys who worked for the tobacco industry and have now moved to the Department of Justice observe conflict of interest standards and recuse those lawyers from government litigation in related cases.
