More Challenges for E-Cigs Ads – Congress and FTC Looking at Marketing Practices While States Impose Bans

By |2019-10-04T07:38:04-05:00October 4th, 2019|Legal News|

We recently wrote about some of the challenges for e-cig advertising based on Federal and state actions to restrict the sale of flavored vaping products. Even though advertising for e-cigarettes is not currently illegal at the Federal level (see our articles here and here that discuss the disclaimer that must accompany those ads and the... Continue Reading…

New Concerns About Ads for E-Cigs and CBD

By |2019-09-12T10:10:33-05:00September 12th, 2019|Legal News|

We’ve written many times about the legal concerns about advertising for various vices – including e-cigs (see, for instance, our article here) and CBD (see for instance our articles here and here). The issues with these products never seem to go away, and in recent days, they have become even more pronounced. On e-cigs and... Continue Reading…

A Call to Regulate E-Cig Advertising – What is the FCC’s Role in Regulating Advertising For the Vices?

By |2019-02-20T08:54:01-06:00February 20th, 2019|Legal News|

In recent months, there have been many calls to regulate e-cigs, and potentially to regulate the marketing of all sorts of vaping products, including a call last week by an FCC Commissioner in an op-ed article in USA Today.  As we wrote several months ago, these suggestions have been based in the fear that increased...… Continue Reading

Advertising for E-Cigs – Concerns about Targeting Children

By |2018-09-13T10:07:41-05:00September 13th, 2018|Legal News|

E-cig advertising has been one of those areas where broadcasters and other media companies have been looking warily at the potential for regulatory intervention. So far, as we wrote here, the FDA has only required general disclosures that “e-cigs contain nicotine and that nicotine is an addictive chemical” – an obligation that took effect last month,...… Continue Reading

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