E-cigarettes Win a Round
August 13, 2017
8/12/17 – The Food and Drug Administration has delayed regulations that would have nearly halted sales of electronic cigarettes and at the same time signaled a willingness to allow the devices to be marketed as smoking-cessation aids. The shift would leave room for a proposal offered recently in Issues by a community health specialist to conduct a series of policy experiments to assess the full health effects and possible benefits of e-cigarettes and other alternative products to identify the best ways to reduce the harm caused by conventional smoking.