Tobacco, Vape & Nicotine Product Rule Watch

Track nicotine product rules in the United States, reported neutrally. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: FDA premarket authorizations, marketing denials, warning letters and seizures for vapes, pouches, menthol and flavored products; state and city flavor bans, tax increases, Tobacco 21 and ID rule changes with effective dates; retailer compliance actions and product removals at 7-Eleven, Circle K, Walgreens, CVS successors and major gas station chains; nicotine pouch and oral product rule changes; illegal and counterfeit vape alerts with the products named; Medicaid, Medicare and insurer cessation coverage changes, state quit line and free nicotine replacement program openings; workplace, housing and multiunit smoking rule changes; hemp-derived product rules where they affect nicotine users; and class actions and settlements paying consumers with claims deadlines. Prefer the FDA, state legislatures and health departments, city councils, retailer announcements, court documents and established health reporting; ignore industry and advocacy marketing on either side, and never give individual medical advice. Put the agency, state or product first in the title with the rule and the date. Use high severity for a flavor ban or tax taking effect within 90 days in a state over 5 million people, an illegal product alert for a widely sold product, or a free cessation program opening. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the date, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.