FDA Finalizes New Rule “Clarifying” When a Tobacco Product is Actually a Medical Product By Azim Chowdhury & Keller and Heckman LLP on January 27, 2017 Posted in Deeming Rule, Tobacco Control Act The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) “Deeming Regulation” became effective on August 8, 2016, extending the Agency’s regulatory authority over tobacco products beyond traditional cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco products to include “other” tobacco product categories such as cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah/shisha, electronic vapor and e-liquid products, and components and parts …