22nd Century Group Calls On HHS And FDA Secretary Kennedy, Acting FDA Commissioner Diamantas And CTP Director Koplow To Enact And Implement The Reduced Nicotine Content Standard
22nd Century Group Calls on HHS Secretary Kennedy, Acting FDA Commissioner Diamantas and CTP Director Koplow to Enact and Implement the Reduced Nicotine Content Standard Administration’s Reported Move to Accelerate Vape and Nicotine Pouch Authorizations Addresses Only Part of the Continuum of Risk MOCKSVILLE, N.C., Sept. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 22nd Century Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: XXII ), a tobacco products company focused on reducing the harms of smoking through nicotine reduction, today called on political leaders and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to enact and implement the proposed "Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products," 90 Fed. Reg. 5032 (Jan. 16, 2025) ("Proposed Rule"), which remains pending more than eight years after the FDA first announced its intent to act and more than a year after the public comment period closed. The Company’s call follows a Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday that the Trump administration plans to change federal rules to speed the authorization of tobacco products such as flavored vapes and nicotine pouches, with the FDA expected to announce in coming days t
, Sept. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 22nd Century Group, Inc. S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to enact and implement the proposed "Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products," 90 Fed.
Reg. 5032 (Jan. 16, 2025) ("Proposed Rule"), which remains pending more than eight years after the FDA first announced its intent to act and more than a year after the public comment period closed. S.
Regulators Plan Major Move to Speed Authorizations of Vapes, Tobacco Pouches," WSJ, Sept. 23, 2026). 22nd Century supports those efforts and believes they represent only one component of a comprehensive continuum-of-risk strategy to address the harms of tobacco. 70 milligrams per gram of total tobacco in cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, most cigars and pipe tobacco, a level low enough to no longer create or sustain addiction.
The FDA first issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the subject on March 16, 2018 (83 Fed. Reg. 11818). The Proposed Rule was issued on January 15, 2025, and the comment period closed on September 15, 2025.
To date, there is no final rule, no published timeline and no public update from the agency.