Specifically, the initial challenge that got a major boost on Friday was filed by Nicopure Labs, a manufacturer of e-cigarette liquid, against the FDA’s Deeming Rule, which was finalized in May.
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The low cost of the devices and the promise they can help teens quit smoking tobacco are the two strong predictors of continued use, said senior researcher Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin.
E-cigarette use among high school students jumped more than nine times in the past five years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The law gave the FDA immediate authority over cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, smokeless tobacco and roll-your-own tobacco and authorized the agency to extend its jurisdiction to all other tobacco products. She now studies various e-cigarette topics including device types, labeling, and co-use with marijuana. “Is that going to be the start of nicotine addiction?”.
An estimated 16% of the nation’s high school students were using e-cigarettes in 2015, according to the National Youth Tobacco Survey.
More than half the youths surveyed stated that they tried the devices out of curiosity, 41.8 percent cited “good flavors” and nearly a third because their friends used them. The investigators compared the reasons for continued use against those given for first use.
Clark also says that since we live in a largely “cashless society”, asking a vape shop to charge a penny – as some shops may do as a means of thumbing their nose at the FDA – or even a dollar, “doesn’t make any sense”, as vape shops will still have to pay a service fee from the credit card companies.
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. States could tax the devices, hiking their prices, she suggested. Norman Edelman, senior scientific advisor for the American Lung Association.
“Having a discussion about whether or not e-cigarettes are more healthy than real tobacco-product cigarettes is akin to deciding which crook, Hillary or Donald, should get your vote”.
Many consider vaping or smoking an e-cigarette as a “safer” alternative to smoking regular cigarettes.
The study was published online August 8 in the journal Pediatrics. “The fact that 20 percent of those who reported using vaping to quit smoking succeeded should be looked at positively, as pharmaceutical nicotine replacement therapy products have been repeatedly shown to have pathetic success rates”.
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Since the study was conducted, most provinces have created legislation around the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes.
