The justices will hear arguments about the FDA's rejection of some e-cigarettes. High schoolers are at the center of the case.If you don't know much about vaping, be assured that teenagers do. For the uninitiated, vaping is the inhaling of an aerosol mist from an electronic cigarette or other similar device, which heats up a liquid containing nicotine to create a vapor that looks like smoke.
Indeed, according to national surveys conducted by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of high school kids who reported daily vaping of e-cigarettes jumped from 9.7% in 2014 to 30% in 2023. What's more, he says, the decision had an additional and"aggressive" feature that"threatened to make this decision the de facto rule for the country as a whole, one that would require the FDA to completely remake it's regulatory regime."