The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized guidance Wednesday to make clear that it’s ban on free samples of tobacco products includes electronic cigarettes. The FDA said in the 10-page ...

Tobacco samples: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is drafting new tobacco guidelines. The FDA’s deeming rule prohibits companies from providing free tobacco samples, but the agency’s ...

BOSTON (AP) - Marie Evans recalled she was 9 years old when she first started getting free cigarettes in the Boston housing project where she lived... BOSTON (AP) – Marie Evans recalled she was ...

They also ban free tobacco samples and most vending-machine sales. "Some of these regulations will be very restrictive," said Ray Story, founder of industry group TVECA (Tobacco Vapor Electronic ...

While Marlboro occasionally sends coupons to registered customers, tobacco advertising and promotion is heavily restricted (including a prohibition on free samples) and is highly unlikely to ever ...

Marie Evans grew up in the Orchard Park housing complex, where she said free sample packs of Newport cigarettes were handed out to residents, even children. Three weeks before her death ...

GREELEY — A ban on handing out free tobacco samples — including chewing tobacco — will be up for a City Council vote Tuesday, a move that could cost the annual Greeley Stampede a major sponsor.

where they were also given samples. The idea, Schneider said, was to turn them into lifelong smokers. With all the free cigarettes floating around, Ulman said, constituents complained that "kids ...

OLYMPIA – The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday banning the distribution of free tobacco samples, something critics say routinely get into the hands of minors. The bill, which has ...

A major tobacco company will no longer be allowed to give away free samples of chewing tobacco at the Greeley Stampede, though it remains unclear if the company will pull its sponsorship of the event ...

Among other provisions, the rules ban free tobacco samples. Whether that specifically applies to donated cigars is unclear, but several companies already have announced they are ending a decades ...