New e-cigarette regulations kick in today

“That’s what we know with cigarettes and that’s the concern here”, Zeller said.

On Monday, people who are younger than 18 will be banned from purchasing tobacco- related products including e-cigarettes, hookahs and cigars.

“The high cost of the application process means most e-cig businesses will be forced to shut down, eliminating choices of dramatically safer alternatives to combustible cigarettes, which will leave smokers with fewer options to compete against the most harmful form of nicotine consumption, [again, ] combustible tobacco”. Other rules include making products childproof and placing health warnings on packages and advertisements. Now I won’t get into the debate of whether or not that’s true because there are a lot of opinions on this, but it does merit pointing out here that minors in the United States will no longer be able to buy e-cigarettes.

The FDA additionally will have the authority to approve tobacco products not previously regulated that went on sale after February 15, 2007.

The new rules halt the sale of e-cigarettes and any other tobacco product to anyone younger than 18. The researchers said that long-term benefits to using e-cigarettes to quit smoking are still unclear as 80 percent of the youth who started vaping in order to quit smoking were continuing to smoke cigarettes even after six months.

That’s why this historic rule is so important.

Government health officials hope new rules going into effect Monday will keep more tobacco products out of the hands of children.

A report published in the Lubbock Online said, “New guidelines on electronic cigarettes set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have the local vaping businesses preparing to take a hit, and at least two have decided it’s not worth staying in business”. We also continue to offer webinars for retailers and manufacturers and support from our Office of Small Business Assistance.

These regulations have major consequences for public health.

“Prior to August 8, 2016, it’s been the Wild Wild West when it comes to the sale of those products to minors”, said Mitch Zeller, J.D., Director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products. This survey also showed that high school boys now smoke cigars at a higher rate than cigarettes – 14 percent for cigars and 11.8 percent for cigarettes.

There are more than 12,000 e-cigarette stores in the US, including around 400 in Ohio.

The United States has made enormous progress in reducing smoking, but tobacco use remains the nation’s No. 1 cause of preventable death, killing almost half a million Americans and costing the nation about $170 billion in health care bills each year.