Historique
Article de Périodique
Finally the US regulates e-cigarettes as tobacco (2016)
Auteur(s) :
KAMEROW, D.
Année
2016
Page(s) :
i2596
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
3
Domaine :
Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette
Discipline :
SAN (Santé publique / Public health)
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Thésaurus mots-clés
E-CIGARETTE
;
REGLEMENTATION
;
INDUSTRIE DU TABAC
Résumé :
Treating them as tobacco will outlaw sales to children.
It seems a long time coming. We watched electronic cigarettes grow without regulation from an oddity to a pastime of nine million Americans, from boutique businesses to a $3.5bn (£2.4bn; €3bn) industry dominated by major tobacco companies. Now e-cigarettes are more popular among our high school students than tobacco cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration tried to regulate e-cigarettes as drug delivery devices in 2010 but was beaten back in the courts by the fledgling industry. In 2014 the FDA announced new draft rules after it gained authority in 2009 to regulate tobacco products. We waited for the final rules. And we waited. Apparently it took a lot of time to respond to the public comments and iron out numerous compromises in the policy. [Extract]
It seems a long time coming. We watched electronic cigarettes grow without regulation from an oddity to a pastime of nine million Americans, from boutique businesses to a $3.5bn (£2.4bn; €3bn) industry dominated by major tobacco companies. Now e-cigarettes are more popular among our high school students than tobacco cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration tried to regulate e-cigarettes as drug delivery devices in 2010 but was beaten back in the courts by the fledgling industry. In 2014 the FDA announced new draft rules after it gained authority in 2009 to regulate tobacco products. We waited for the final rules. And we waited. Apparently it took a lot of time to respond to the public comments and iron out numerous compromises in the policy. [Extract]
Affiliation :
Robert Graham Center for policy studies in primary care, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA