APA Dictionary of Psychology

a 2009 law giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate how tobacco products are made, distributed, and marketed. Among numerous provisions, the act created a center within the FDA focused entirely on tobacco control, restricted the advertising and sale of tobacco to children, required smokeless tobacco products to carry more visible health warnings and all tobacco products to disclose their ingredients, created rigorous criteria that tobacco products must meet to legally use terms in advertisements that suggest modified risk (e.g., light and mild), and banned flavored cigarettes.