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Cigsweb.com was cited for selling cigarette products with modified risk claims without FDA authorization, violating the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The company's website marketed various cigarette brands (including Camel, Marlboro, and Kent products) using descriptors such as "light," "super light," "mild," and claims of "low content of tar and nicotine" and "safer smoking technology," which constitute implied or explicit representations that the products are less harmful than other commercially marketed tobacco products. These modified risk claims rendered the cigarette products adulterated under FDA regulations because they were sold or distributed without an FDA order permitting such sales.