5 takeaways from the AP's report on Chinese disposable e-cigarettes flooding the US market

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How good a job is the Food and Drug Administration doing in its crackdown on kid-friendly electronic cigarette flavors? The Associated Press sought to answer that question by looking at tightly controlled sales data.

from China. Their influx has forced the agency to try to eliminate thousands of illegal products sold by under-the-radar importers and distributors.E-CIGARETTES KEEP FLOODING INTO THE U.S. WITHOUT FDA PERMISSION

The number of unique e-cigarettes sold in the U.S. has mushroomed to over 9,000 since 2020, when the FDA began restricting vaping flavors and requiring manufacturers to request permission to stay on the market. The FDA says it has reviewed millions of vaping applications, rejecting 99% of them because they have not been shown to benefit public health. That should mean fewer e-cigarettes being sold in U.S. stores, but hundreds of new varieties appear each month, flouting FDA rules.The increase in e-cigarettes has been almost exclusively driven by Chinese-manufactured disposables, with more than 5,800 disposables currently being sold in U.S. stores, according to the IRI data.

 

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