In the United Kingdom, for example, the Royal College of Physicians in April embraced e-cigarettes as a way to reduce smoking, which the group says is far more unsafe.
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The requirements apply to “new tobacco products” on the market before February 2007, but reports noted that almost all e-cigarettes debuted after that date.
The new rules will ban the sale of e- cigarettes to minors – something IL state law already does.
Manufactures will have to meet public safety standards while retailers can’t give out free samples or sell products in vending machines.
The regulation extension affects all tobacco products on the market since February 15, 2007, which includes the newest electronic tobacco trends, USA Today reports. The FDA will now require companies who make e-cigarettes to submit newer tobacco products for govenrment official, as well as place health warnings on packages. The FDA also said it will bring regulation of cigars, as well as pipe and hookah tobacco, in line with rules for cigarettes.
“We’ve agreed for many years that nicotine does not belong in the hands of children”, Mathews Burwell said at a news conference. It explicitly prohibits the sale of the tobacco products mentioned to individuals who are younger than 18. What we know is absence of federal restriction means that enforcement is uneven and at times nonexistent, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said during a news conference.
If the FDA regulates e-cigarettes the way they now treat cigarettes, Stier believes it will discourage people from switching.
E-cigarettes consist of plastic or metal tubes that contain a heating element that vaporizes a liquid solution containing nicotine.
She’s anxious the new FDA rules could ruin her business.
While teenagers seem to be tiring of traditional cigarettes, their smoking habits have given rise to other nicotine products, specifically e-cigs-battery-operated devices that turn nicotine and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
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The new rule will be published in the Federal Register May 10 and will take effect 90 days later on August 8, 2016.
