FDA unveils sweeping anti-tobacco effort to reduce underage vaping and smoking

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

FDA unveils sweeping anti-tobacco effort to reduce underage vaping and smoking

Agency targets e-cigarettes, flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes.

By Laurie McGinley November 15 at 10:11 AM

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday launched a multipronged attack on the rising underage use of tobacco products, imposing sharp sales restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes and announcing plans to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.

The FDA says it will limit sales of many flavored e-cigarettes to brick-and-mortar outlets that have either age-restricted entry or areas inside stores that are not accessible to people under 18. Such restrictions are tantamount to a ban for many convenience stores and gas stations, but not for specialty vape and tobacco stores, said a top agency official. The FDA also will require stepped-up age verification for online sales.

The new limits reflect health experts' concerns that e-cigarette use could lead to nicotine addiction early in life and affect the developing adolescent brain, and that some e-cigarette users will go on to smoke more dangerous regular cigarettes.

Perhaps even more significant than the e-cigarette steps are the FDA’s commitments to propose bans on menthol in cigarettes and cigars, as well as other flavors in cigars. Such prohibitions will require new regulations that could take years to go into effect, and could be derailed by opposition from the cigarette industry. If successful, though, the bans could have an especially significant impact on African-American adults and youth, who smoke menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars at higher rates than other groups.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2018/11/15/fda-unveils-sweeping-anti-tobacco-effort-reduce-underage-vaping-smoking/

[d_r]

1. well

by that logic they should ban cigarettes from convenience stores that don't have a separate over 18 section too

[RainCaster]

2. Add grocery stores to that list too

[workinclasszero]

3. I think tobacco companies are behind this

To much competition from Juul and others.

Kids will still will be able to buy the most deadly legal product on the market at gas stations and convenience stores, cigarettes.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. I vape and my guys in the vape stores say the same: Big Pharma and Tobacco are behind it.

[Autumn]

5. Tobacco and big pharma always create crises where there are none.

[blogslut]

6. Maybe it's a Texas thing but...

All of that stuff - cigarettes, cigars, vape devices, juice, is sold behind a counter or is displayed behind locked plexiglass cabinets in grocery stores, drug stores and convenience stores, even at gas stations.

Is it not this way in other states?