Center for Tobacco Products

**What We Do** The FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) is responsible for carrying out the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which Congress passed in 2009. This law—commonly called the Tobacco Control Act—gives us broad authority to regulate the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products. CTP takes a comprehensive approach to reduce the negative health effects of tobacco product use. We develop policy, issue regulations, conduct research, educate people on tobacco products, and make decisions on whether new tobacco products and claims can be marketed—including the review and evaluation of applications and claims before the new products are allowed on the market. This cohesive, comprehensive approach can help us reach our goals of: - Preventing people from starting to use tobacco products - Encouraging people who use tobacco to quit - Reducing the harm caused by tobacco use As we work to protect the public’s health, we use the full power of the law to protect people from the dangers of tobacco use. **Our Vision** To make tobacco-related disease and death part of America's past, not America's future, and, by doing so, ensure a healthier life for every family. **Our Mission** To protect Americans from tobacco-related disease and death by regulating the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products and by educating the public, especially young people, about tobacco products and the dangers their use poses to themselves and others.