# Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco To Protect Children and Adolescents
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2010-03-19 · Effective 2010-06-22 · 75 FR 13225
## Document
- **Document number:** 2010-6087
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 75 FR 13225
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 1140
- **Publication date:** 2010-03-19
- **Effective date:** 2010-06-22
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-1995-N-0259
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reissuing a final rule restricting the sale, distribution, and use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. As required by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act), FDA is issuing a final rule that is identical to the provisions of the final rule on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco published by FDA in 1996, with certain required exceptions. The rule prohibits the sale of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to individuals under the age of 18 and imposes specific marketing, labeling, and advertising requirements. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, FDA is issuing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to obtain information related to the regulation of outdoor advertising of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/03/19/2010-6087/regulations-restricting-the-sale-and-distribution-of-cigarettes-and-smokeless-tobacco-to-protect)
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