Star Scientific Files Stonewall Moist-BDL™ Application with FDA for Approval as Modified Risk Tobacco Product

GLEN ALLEN, Va., Feb. 2, 2011 (PRNewswire) Star Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CIGX) filed an application yesterday with the U.S. Food & Administration (FDA) for approval to market a moist-snuff product, Stonewall Moist-BDL™, as a modified-risk tobacco product (MRTP). The company believes that this is the first application filed with the FDA for approval of a tobacco product in a longstanding market segment. The data submitted in the application to the Center for Tobacco Products at FDA document TSNA levels in Stonewall Moist-BDL™ that are below limits of detection, or "BDL", by current standards of measure. Continued