Flavored liquids for e-cigarettes at a New York smoke shop. By Alex M. Azar and Scott Gottlieb March 20 at 10:56 AM Alex M. Azar is the secretary of health and human services. Scott Gottlieb is the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
In earlier years, e-cigarette proponents shrugged off adolescent use, arguing that it was mostly infrequent and experimental. Well, not anymore. And last week, through the FDA, the Trump administration took new steps to limit the access and appeal of these products to children by proposing to prioritize enforcement against flavored e-cigarette products that are too easily available to young people — such as when e-cigarettes are sold without heightened age verification, whether at retail shops or online.
But we’ve also been confronted with epidemic levels of e-cigarette use by kids in middle school and high school. One popular brand, Juul, has even become a verb, with teens “juuling” in high-school restrooms. There’s also the reality, as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reported last year, that a young person who tries an e-cigarette is more likely to try a regular tobacco cigarette.
E-cigs should have never been approved for sale because in doing so they made millions of Americans addicts of nicotine, a substance the FDA fought hard to stop big tobacco from adding to cigarettes in an effort to keep smokers from quitting.
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When I was a teen we smoked cigarettes instead.
tobacco industry didn't seem to need the same standard. Still see kids ages 11 smoking cigs. To be fair, vaping as well..
E cigs became popular after cities targeted smokers and raised taxes on them. Smokers move to e cigs and now you want to ban those, because of teens, who will do what they're not supposed to regardless of any law.
Why doesn't it depend on the PARENTS' willingness to protect their teens?
No it doesn’t it depends on like everything else how much gpvt will regulate