Radient Technologies Inc V.RTI.H

FDA 's new comprehensive plan for Nicotine regulation

[good2004]

Excerpt of news release of another stock regarding Nicotine regulation. https://www.stockwatch.com/News/Item.aspx?bid=U-b005925-U%3aXXII-20171003&symbol=XXII®ion=U 22nd Century Group, Inc. (NYSE American: XXII), a plant biotechnology company that is focused on tobacco harm reduction, announced today that the Vermont Center on Behavior and Healths 5th Annual Conference will focus on Tobacco Regulatory Science and will include the prodigious science surrounding 22nd Centurys Very Low Nicotine tobacco cigarettes. This national conference will take place on October 5-6, 2017 in Burlington, Vermont and will feature, as its keynote speaker, Mitch Zeller, J.D., Director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products. Director Zellers address comes on the heels of FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottliebs July 28th announcement that the FDA is planning to reduce nicotine content in cigarettes to non-addictive levels. In his address to open the conference, Director Zeller will expand upon FDAs New Comprehensive Plan for Nicotine Regulation. This Tobacco Regulatory Science conference gathers together many of the worlds foremost scientific experts on the important behavioral impacts of Very Low Nicotine tobacco cigarettes. Chairing the panel on Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes is Neal Benowitz, M.D., Core Director and Investigator, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science. Dr. Benowitz recently authored a paper: Comprehensive Nicotine Regulation to End the Combustible Tobacco Epidemic where he states that an FDA-mandated 95% reduction in nicotine content would make it impossible to compensate by smoking cigarettes more intensively or smoking more per day.