E-cigarettes should be regulated, say 40 U.S. attorneys general
Attorneys general from 40 states are asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week to start regulating electronic cigarettes in the same way that it regulates other tobacco products.
“Unlike traditional tobacco products, there are no federal age restrictions that would prevent children from neither obtaining e-cigarettes, nor are there any advertising restrictions," wrote Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to the FDA Tuesday.
DeWine was one of 40 attorneys general who signed a bipartisan letter urging the FDA to address the advertising, ingredients, and sale to minors of e-cigarettes before Oct. 31.
E-cigarettes are, in their most common form, battery-operated products that heat liquid nicotine into a vapor which is then inhaled.
Despite the fact that their long-term health effects have not yet been studied, many manufacturers tout their products as a safer alternative to smoking. This, say the attorneys general, puts the public at risk.
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