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November 18, 2021 by inquirer.com

Last month, for the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized certain electronic cigarette products, citing evidence that the products can help smokers cut back or quit by switching from smoking to vaping. The FDA’s decision has left experts divided. On the one hand, smokers should have access to every option that can help them quit, but if young people believe e-cigarettes are “safe,” could they get hooked on vaping and transition to smoking cigarettes?

We asked two local experts to weigh in on whether or not the FDA was right to allow the marketing of some e-cigarette products. [...]

November 16, 2021 by stamfordadvocate.com

The upcoming arrival of Philip Morris International has revealed a conflict Gov. Ned Lamont and other officials have with the tobacco giant.

Lamont and legislators who represent Stamford at the state Capitol and in Congress say they are non-smokers, but they are keen to tout the economic benefits of another Fortune 500 company moving to Connecticut — despite their distaste for cigarettes and recognition that tobacco use has caused thousands of deaths in the state each year.

November 16, 2021 by None

The Food and Drug Administration’s renewed push to regulate e-cigarettes could interfere with the Biden administration’s plans to ban menthol-flavored tobacco products, a long-sought goal of public health groups.

On Nov. 18, the agency will square off in a federal district court with anti-tobacco groups that say it has unreasonably delayed action to limit the minty flavor in tobacco products, despite ample evidence of menthol’s toll on public health.

November 12, 2021 by thehill.com

President Biden's
Build Back Better agenda depends a lot on smokers and their compulsive habit. Smoking generates tax revenue — lots of it. Part of the theory is that high taxes, restrictions on advertising, research on the deleterious health effects of smoking, and the cultural stigma surrounding smoking will wean Americans off tobacco, but too much success on that front also will dry up big tax revenue. As part of the package of funding measures, the administration had sought to raise federal taxes on cigarettes by 50 percent and on other tobacco products like dipping tobacco by 1,600 percent. [...]

November 12, 2021 by marketwatch.com

House Democrats are poised to vote on imposing a new federal excise tax on e-cigarettes—but without a tax increase on traditional cigarettes—leading some public-health experts to warn that the provision could push vapers back to cigarette smoking.

The House bill includes a measure intended to tax vaping products on par with the existing federal cigarette tax rate of $1.01 per pack. It would raise about $9 billion over a decade. The nicotine tax would apply to e-cigarettes, vaping liquids and oral nicotine pouches. It wouldn’t apply to nicotine gums, patches or other smoking-cessation aids approved as medical products by the Food and Drug Administration.

November 04, 2021 by filtermag.org

There’s an ongoing theory about the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the vaping community: The agency did not anticipate the onslaught of 6 million-plus premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) it received by a September 2020 deadline, and had to devise some way to try to sort through them all by the following year. It would be no easy feat, but the bar for authorization would be set incredibly high—and that, in the FDA’s view, would help.

November 03, 2021 by nationalreview.com

The Food and Drug Administration is facing backlash from anti-vaping members of Congress and other public-health campaigners for officially authorizing an e-cigarette as “appropriate for the protection of public health.”

The FDA’s decision to approve the Vuse Solo e-cigarette last month is a historic one: It marks the first time that America’s leading public-health agency officially recognized the potential of e-cigarettes to help smokers quit. “The manufacturer’s data demonstrates its tobacco-flavored products could benefit addicted adult smokers who switch to these products — either completely or with a significant reduction in cigarette consumption,” [...]

November 03, 2021 by cincinnati.com

Building strong families and communities is the key to unlocking the potential of our next generation. Unfortunately, Kentucky leads the nation in too many cancer statistics – including the rate of new lung cancer diagnoses. These chronic health issues prevent our youth from getting the right start.

Everyone, from policymakers to advocates to educators to parents, needs to be involved in the effort to keep vaping products like Juul away from our children. That’s why I’m so alarmed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to drag its feet in regulating or outright banning flavored e-cigarette and vaping devices.

October 28, 2021 by reuters.com

Triton Distribution can continue selling its flavored e-cigarettes, a federal appeals court has ruled, despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to the contrary.

In a unanimous opinion on Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that when the FDA last month denied the Richardson, Texas-based company's application to sell its products, the agency did not give adequate consideration to Triton's marketing plan to reduce the products' appeal to youth.

October 27, 2021 by denverpost.com

A push to outlaw the sale of flavored smoking products in Denver has drawn Big Tobacco, mom-and-pop vape shops, hookah lounges, health care providers and social justice advocates into a fight over public health, business rights and the freedom of choice.

The proposal under consideration by the Denver City Council is becoming one of the most intensely debated issues in City Hall in recent years, with public health advocates saying a ban would help end the teen vaping crisis while the opposition argues the city would be going too far in restricting access to products that adults have a right to use.