Calling For CTP Reform:

Change Can’t Wait!

The Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has publicly acknowledged cigarette smoking is the most harmful form of nicotine use, and recognized the critical need for reduced-risk options.

The CTP is required by law to review and decide on premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) within 180 days of receiving them.

Despite their $712 million budget, it takes the CTP an average of three years to make decisions – a clear bureaucratic roadblock that fails to provide adults who smoke with alternative smoke-free choices.

Here are the facts:

The CTP is legally required to review applications for new tobacco products within 180 days, but has failed to meet this deadline.

There are 28 million adults in the U.S. who continue to smoke cigarettes – they need accessible, CTP-authorized smoke-free options.

Bureaucratic delays have prevented the authorization of new smoke-free products.

The CTP has only authorized roughly 50 out of the more than 26 million tobacco product applications it has received since 2009.

The CTP is in urgent need of reform to better serve the public’s health.

Prioritizing the review and authorization of new smoke-free nicotine products is essential to help adults transition away from cigarettes.

The Center for Tobacco Products must prioritize the review and authorization of scientifically backed smoke-free nicotine products in order to achieve the CTP’s mission and better serve public health.

Will YOU join us? America’s health depends on it!

THE TIME IS NOW: Congress and the Trump Administration have a vital opportunity to reform the CTP and advance innovative smoke-free options.

Will you join us in calling for change?

“[CTP staff] report that ‘scientific disagreement is frowned upon, if not entirely suppressed’ and that its leadership was ‘unsupportive of a reviewer’s fundamental duty to provide an unbiased review using the best available science.’

The lack of clarity about CTP’s direction, its priorities, and its near-term and longer-term goals and objectives, hinders CTP’s ability to effectively carry out its mission, establish efficient programs to accomplish its goals and objectives, and set appropriate metrics to assess outcomes.”

– The Reagan-Udall Foundation

“[CTP staff] report that ‘scientific disagreement is frowned upon, if not entirely suppressed’ and that its leadership was ‘unsupportive of a reviewer’s fundamental duty to provide an unbiased review using the best available science.’
The lack of clarity about CTP’s direction, its priorities, and its near-term and longer-term goals and objectives, hinders CTP’s ability to effectively carry out its mission, establish efficient programs to accomplish its goals and objectives, and set appropriate metrics to assess outcomes.”

– The Reagan-Udall Foundation

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