{"id":18396,"date":"2018-09-12T16:38:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:38:34","slug":"fda-threatens-to-pull-e-cigarettes-to-fight-rise-of-youth-vaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/18396","title":{"rendered":"FDA Threatens to Pull E-Cigarettes to Fight Rise of Youth Vaping"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FDA Threatens to Pull E-Cigarettes to Fight Rise of Youth Vaping<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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  • Agency asks five makers for plans to stop use by children<\/li>\n
  • Commissioner Gottlieb cites an \u2018epidemic\u2019 of youth vaping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n
    By\u00a0Anna Edney<\/p>\n

    (Bloomberg) —\u00a0<\/section>\n

    The Food and Drug Administration is threatening to pull flavored electronic cigarettes like Juul off the market if the tobacco industry doesn\u2019t do more to combat growing use of the products by children and teens.<\/p>\n

    FDA Commissioner\u00a0Scott Gottlieb\u00a0said the agency will soon release data that show a \u201csubstantial increase\u201d in youth vaping this year compared with 2017.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI have grown increasingly concerned around what we see as rising youth use in these products, and I\u2019m disappointed in the actions the companies have taken to try to address this,\u201d Gottlieb said in an interview.<\/p>\n

    The FDA told five major e-cigarette manufacturers Wednesday to come up with ways to address youth use in 60 days or the agency could require them to stop selling flavored products that appeal to children. The products being targeted are: Juul,\u00a0Altria Group Inc.\u2019s MarkTen, Fontem Ventures BV\u2019s blu,\u00a0British American Tobacco Plc\u2019s Vuse and\u00a0Logic.<\/p>\n

    To gain clearance to return to the market, the companies would have to prove that the benefits to adults who use e-cigarettes to stop smoking outweigh the risks associated with youth vaping.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI certainly am in possession of evidence that warrants that,\u201d Gottlieb said, adding that the problem has reached \u201cepidemic proportion.\u201d He declined to disclose the evidence.<\/p>\n

    Juul\u2019s Popularity<\/h3>\n

    Of the 3.6 million middle- and high-school students who said in 2017 they are current tobacco-product users,\u00a02.1 million\u00a0used e-cigarettes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThere is no question that a lot of the youth use is being driven by Juul,\u201d Gottlieb said.<\/p>\n

    Produced by San Francisco-based Juul Labs Inc., Juul devices resemble a USB thumb drive and have become popular among students. The company has more than two-thirds of the U.S. e-cigarette market, according to Nielsen data. The FDA is currently developing a survey to determine what percentage of youth vapers are using Juul products, Gottlieb said.<\/p>\n

    A nationwide sting operation from June through August resulted in more than 1,300 warning letters and fines to retailers who sold Juul products and other e-cigarettes to kids. It was \u201cthe largest coordinated enforcement effort in the FDA\u2019s history,\u201d according to the agency.<\/p>\n

    Read more: E-cigarette sting operation prompts warnings to retailers<\/p>\n

    Gottlieb recently began to ask whether the use of Juul and other similar products by kids is overshadowing any benefit to adult smokers using the devices to help them quit cigarettes. He\u00a0said\u00a0in June tobacco companies \u201cbetter step up and step up soon\u201d but he didn\u2019t divulge what consequences the industry could face — until now.<\/p>\n

    In July 2017, the FDA said it was considering\u00a0lowering nicotine levels\u00a0in traditional cigarettes. In addition, the agency pushed back until 2022 a deadline for electronic-cigarette companies to submit applications to the FDA. Gottlieb said at the time he was trying to ease the regulatory pathway for products that are potentially less harmful sources of nicotine than smoking. Critics of pushing back the deadline raised concern that more kids would take up vaping.<\/p>\n

    Congress gave the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco products in 2009. The agency extended that reach to other tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, in August 2016 and allowed those products that were already on the market to continue sales while preparing an application for FDA clearance. The FDA is investigating whether some products on the market were introduced after the 2016 date and may need to halt sales, though didn\u2019t name which ones may be violating the law.<\/p>\n

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    FDA Threatens to Pull E-Cigarettes to Fight Rise of Youth Vaping Agency asks five makers for plans to stop use by children Commissioner Gottlieb cites an \u2018epidemic\u2019 of youth vaping By\u00a0Anna Edney (Bloomberg) —\u00a0 The Food and Drug Administration is threatening to pull flavored electronic cigarettes like Juul off the market if the tobacco industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18398,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions\/18398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}