Guidance Documents: Tobacco

Business Information

  • Memorandum to Potential Cigarette Manufacturers and Importers [TEXT]
  • List of Approved Cigarette Health Warning Plans (as of March 21, 2011) [PDF]

Rules and Acts

  • Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act [PDF]

Commission and Staff Reports

  • Orders To File Special Reports -- To Collect Information Concerning Sales and Practices and Methods of Advertising and Promotion of Cigarettes Employed Throughout the United States During Calendar Years 2009 and 2010 -- Issued To Five Firms (August 2011) [PDF]
  • Orders To File Special Reports -- To Collect Information Concerning Sales and Practices and Methods of Advertising and Promotion of Smokeless Tobacco Products Employed Throughout the United States During Calendar Years 2009 and 2010 -- Issued To Five Firms (August 2011) [PDF]
  • 1999 Report on Cigarette Sales, Advertising and Promotion, Covering 1997 [PDF]
  • Section III. Recommendation Regarding the FTC Cigarette Test Method [PDF]
  • Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report for 2004 and 2005 (April 2007) [WP] [PDF]
  • Federal Trade Commission Smokeless Tobacco Report for 2002 Through 2005 (April 2007) [WP] [PDF]
  • 2000 Report on Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide, Covering 1998 [WP] [PDF]
  • 1999 Report on Cigar Sales, Advertising and Promotion
  • 1999 Report on Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide, Covering 1997 [WP] [PDF]
  • 1998 Report on Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide, Covering 1996 [WP] [PDF]
  • Staff Report: Competition and the Financial Impact of the Proposed Tobacco Industry Settlement (9/97) [PDF]

Commission and Staff Comments and Letters

  • November 19, 1998 Letter from the Commission to the Department of Health and Human Services [PDF]
  • FTC Staff Evaluation of the Tobacco Industry Analysis Submitted to Congress (10/97) [TEXT]
  • Prepared Statement of FTC on Advertising, Marketing and Antitrust Issues in the Global Tobacco Settlement Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate (3/98) [TEXT]
  • Prepared Statement of FTC on the Proposed Tobacco Settlement Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition, Senate Committee on the Judiciary (10/97) [TEXT]

Last Modified: Wednesday, August 31, 2011