Analysis Regarding the Food and Drug Administration's Jurisdiction Over Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco Products; Extension of Comment Period

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is extending to January 2, 1996, the comment period for the notice that appeared in the Federal Register of August 11, 1995 (60 FR 41453). The document contained FDA's factual and legal analysis regarding nicotine in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products and whether the products are drug delivery devices within the meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act). As a result of this extension, the agency is providing a comment period of more than 140 days on the notice, and a comment period of more than 90 days from the date that additional documents that the agency considered were placed on display.