Evaluating Analytical Methods for Characterization of Tobacco Products Challenge The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act requires premarket approval of all new tobacco products commercially marketed after Feb. 15, 2007 —unless they are shown to be “substantially equivalent” to an existing tobacco product. The act defines "substantially equivalent" as “having the same characteristics or having different characteristics but not raising different questions of public health. ” The high cost of conducting exposure studies for premarket approval gives tobacco companies a significant incentive to demonstrate that newly marketed products are substantially equivalent to products already on the market. Regulators also need to have data that allows them to determine whether or not a new

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