The Food and Drug Administration issued a much-anticipated policy on Wednesday designed to restrict how and where flavored e-cigarettes are sold — an effort to combat what the agency’s commissioner has called “an epidemic” of underage vaping.
U.S. health regulators are moving ahead with a plan to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers by restricting sales of most flavored products in convenience stores and online.
The initiative, a signature effort of departing FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, reflects a major departure in how the agency regulates vaping products. It limits sales of fruity and kid-friendly vaping products to stores that bar minors or have separate adult-only sections. And it says online sellers must tighten age verification and restrict the quantities they sell.
They would not apply to mint, menthol and tobacco flavors — unless those products were being sold in a way that targeted minors — because the agency says those products are most often used by adult smokers trying to quit.The policy was issued as a draft guidance and is similar to the plan Gottlieb outlined in November to combat youth vaping. Its issuance disproves rumors that the White House was thwarting his efforts to crack down on vaping.
The latest effort to regulate vaping represents a much tougher stance than the lenient one Gottlieb adopted soon after becoming FDA commissioner nearly two years ago.
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