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Agenda Announced – Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor, Nicotine, and Tobacco Law Symposium

By Azim Chowdhury on February 23, 2026
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We are pleased to announce the agenda for Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor, Nicotine, and Tobacco Law Symposium, being held Monday, May 4 – Tuesday, May 5, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada, right before the CHAMPS Trade Show! Click here to view the full program agenda.

Click here to register and save $100 on your registration with the early-bird discount. You won’t want to miss this comprehensive seminar designed to provide in-depth knowledge on legal, regulatory, and scientific issues essential for tobacco, nicotine, and CBD/hemp product manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and retailers. 

Join us in May to hear from our knowledgeable attorneys, scientists, and industry experts who will cover a variety of timely topics, specifically designed to help vapor, oral nicotine, and deemed tobacco product manufacturers stay in compliance with rapidly evolving federal, state, and global laws and policies. Topics that will be discussed during the program include:

  • Federal and state regulatory updates for e‑vapor, nicotine, and tobacco products, including PMTA/MRTP pathways and enforcement trends
  • Litigation developments – MDO challenges, state enforcement actions, civil penalty disputes, and PMTA directory cases
  • Distribution and PACT Act enforcement across federal, state, and third‑party actors
  • Requirements and best practices for setting up U.S. ENDS and oral nicotine manufacturing facilities, including TPMP readiness
  • Environmental compliance for nicotine product manufacturing
  • Toxicology and pharmacokinetics considerations for PMTAs involving ENDS and pouches
  • FDA expectations and common pitfalls in PMTAs for oral nicotine products
  • Product design strategies to reduce youth appeal and improve likelihood of FDA authorization
  • Technology‑based youth access prevention systems for ENDS (e.g., SAVE® system)
  • JUUL‑related PMTA litigation strategy and navigating refusals and denials
  • Scientific, legal, and policy considerations surrounding nicotine analogs and synthetic nicotine
  • Rapidly evolving state regulatory frameworks – flavor bans, PMTA directory laws, oral nicotine regulation, and restrictions on foreign-made products
  • Updates on California, Canada, the EU/UK, China, and emerging markets
  • International Trade Commission (ITC) litigation trends reshaping the ENDS market
  • Hemp, cannabinoids, and cannabis regulation
  • …and much more!

Link to SEMINAR DETAILS SEMINAR DETAILS

Dates
Monday, May 4 – Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Registration Fees
Early-Bird Rate: $1,099 if registered by Friday, March 27, 2026
Standard Registration Rate: $1,199 if registered after March 27, 2026

Location
Paris Las Vegas Hotel
3655 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV 89109

Click here to book your hotel room. Keller and Heckman has negotiated a preferred room rate of $124.95 and $134.95 per night, plus tax, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel. Please book your room by Friday, April 3, 2026, in order to take advantage of the negotiated room rates.

Group Discount
Register three or more people from the same company and receive 10% off the total registration fee. Contact kyle@khlaw.com for instructions on how to receive the discount.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
CLE credit is available, pending individual state approval.

Certificate of Attendance
All seminar attendees will be eligible to receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the course.

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations are accepted, and registration fees are refunded if notice is received by April 3, 2026. If notice is given after April 3, no refunds will be granted; however, substitutions are welcome.

For questions concerning the 2026 E-Vapor, Nicotine, and Tobacco Law Symposium, please contact:
Emma Kyle
Marketing and Events Coordinator
kyle@khlaw.com
202.434.4283

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Azim Chowdhury is a regulatory and public policy attorney with a focus on vapor, nicotine and tobacco product regulation. He is a Partner in Keller and Heckman’s nationally-ranked food and drug law practice.

Mr. Chowdhury advises domestic and foreign corporations in matters of…

Azim Chowdhury is a regulatory and public policy attorney with a focus on vapor, nicotine and tobacco product regulation. He is a Partner in Keller and Heckman’s nationally-ranked food and drug law practice.

Mr. Chowdhury advises domestic and foreign corporations in matters of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and international regulatory compliance. In particular, he has developed expertise in tobacco and vapor product regulation relating to the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, and spearheaded the Tobacco and E-Vapor practice at Keller and Heckman. Specifically, Mr. Chowdhury has experience representing tobacco, e-cigarette and e-liquid manufacturers, distributors, retailers, suppliers and trade associations in matters of FDA, state and global regulatory compliance. He also assists corporations in establishing clearances for food and drug additives in the U.S., Canada, and European Union, with an emphasis on indirect additives used in food-contact materials.

Mr. Chowdhury has authored and edited numerous articles and publications, including Tobacco Regulation and Compliance: An Essential Resource, FDA Regulation of Tobacco: A Comprehensive Guide – An FDLI Primer and Tobacco and Nicotine Delivery: Regulation and Compliance, 2nd Edition. He is a frequent contributor to the Food and Drug Law Institute’s (FDLI) Update Magazine and has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Law Journal.  In addition, he has been interviewed in the U.S. News and World Reports Best Lawyers Edition (2016) and was named one of “10 Names to Know in the Vape World” in the October 2015 issue of Vape Magazine. Mr. Chowdhury received the 2018 National Law Review Go-To Thought Leadership Award for his consistent coverage of the emerging issues surrounding vaping and e-cigarettes on Keller and Heckman’s law blog, The Continuum of Risk.  As an industry leader, Mr. Chowdhury frequently speaks at industry conferences and events.

Mr. Chowdhury also has an active pro bono practice through Keller and Heckman’s Pro Bono Program, and has been featured in the Baltimore Sun for successfully obtaining asylum in the United States for a family who fled their home country of El Salvador because of violence they faced from an international gang.

Prior to entering private practice, he served as a judicial law clerk on the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. Mr. Chowdhury received a B.A. and B.S. from Johns Hopkins University, a MBA from the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, and a JD, cum laude, from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., B.S., 2003); University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business (M.B.A., 2006); University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., 2006, cum laude).

Admissions: District of Columbia; Maryland

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