May 2nd, 2014
From: The Boston Globe
By Eric Moskowitz
Keep Calm and Vape On,” a sign behind the counter in David Bershad’s Newton electronic cigarette store proclaims. But proposed federal regulations for e-cigarettes have him fired up.
“I hope there’s going to be some uproar,” said the co-owner of Vape Daddy’s, who plans to encourage customers to contact the Food and Drug Administration. “I’m sure going to stir it up.”
The FDA proposal unveiled Thursday would bring e-cigarettes and their ingredients under the agency’s review for the first time and ban sales to minors. Bershad, who already imposes age restrictions, supports the FDA on both counts.
April 24th, 2014
From: National Public Radio
by Rob Stein
The Food and Drug Administration says it will formally propose regulating e-cigarettes.
Early Thursday, the agency unveiled a long-awaited rule that would give it power to oversee the increasingly popular devices, much in the way that it regulates traditional cigarettes.
“It’s a huge change,” FDA Commissioner told reporters in a briefing Wednesday, before the official announcement of the agency’s plans. “We will have the authority as a science-based regulatory agency to take critical actions to promote and protect the health of the public.”
April 17th, 2014
From: BidnessEtc
The World Health Organization is looking to regulate e-cigarettes in the same way as traditional tobacco products, which will hurt the multi-billion-dollar industry as new players will think twice before entering it
By Troy Kuhn
Altria Group Inc (MO), Reynolds American Inc (RAI), Lorillard Inc (LO), and British American Tobacco PLC (BTI) will likely be revisiting their decision to enter the e-cigarette industry, as the World Health Organization reportedly plans to regulate e-cigarettes in the same way traditional tobacco products are. The planned regulation comes in light of fears that tobacco usage will “renormalize” as more people start using e-cigarettes, and that current antismoking laws like advertising bans would be undermined.
April 10th, 2014
From: The Washington Post Editorial Board
IF ELECTRONIC cigarettes, known as e-cigarettes, live up to their potential, millions of nicotine addicts in the United States will use them. To some public health advocates, that sounds terrible. People should kick nicotine rather than cultivate their dependence with a barely regulated product that seems designed to addict children. The concentrated, nicotine-laced liquid that these devices vaporize is also toxic when inappropriately consumed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just reported that, with the rise in the use of e-cigarettes over the past several years, the number of calls to poison control centers stemming from misuse of e-cigarette liquid also has increased, from about one a month in 2010 to 215 a month now. “These poisonings will continue,” CDC Director Tom Frieden ominously warned.
April 4th, 2014
From: Consumerist
By Ashlee Kieler
While critics of e-cigarettes raise concerns about everything from exploding devices to poisoning risks to marketing and advertising to minors, there are currently no specific federal regulations on these products. That is likely to change soon, says the head of the FDA.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told senators at a Congressional budget hearing today that a proposed rule that would establish FDA authority over e-cigarettes should be ready for release “very soon,” Reuters reports.
Currently, the proposal is being examined by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to assess its potential economic impact.
