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FDA regulates e‐cigarettes, but advocates say more action is needed to protect youth
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30131
Subject(s) - food and drug administration , tobacco control , action (physics) , environmental health , business , tobacco use , political science , advertising , medicine , public health , nursing , population , physics , quantum mechanics
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued rules that regulate e‐cigarettes, as well as other tobacco‐related products such as cigars, hookahs, and pipes. The rule extends the FDA's tobacco authority and implements the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009. The main focus is on banning e‐cigarette use by youth under age 18; e‐cigarette use (“vaping”) has been increasing in young people even as there have been tremendous decreases in smoking in that age group.