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Preteen girl tries e-cigarette with her friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I’ve written about in the past, the Food and Drug Administration passed regulations almost exactly a year\u00a0ago<\/a> on e-cigarettes. These regs will likely drive most small companies out of business and further help Big Tobacco consolidate their e-cig holdings (A lot of people have no idea Big Tobacco already controls about 75 percent of the e-cig market … interesting, huh?).<\/p>\n

Anyway, Big Tobacco was attempting to weaken these admittedly fairly tame FDA regulations on e-cigs via the budget process. Big Tobacco was lobbying to have these regs apply only to existing e-cig products and to exempt large cigars (including large, candy-flavoured cigars).<\/p>\n

These provisions were rejected in the budget, so the FDA’s regs on e-cigs from last year will remain in place … which surprises me a bit, to be honest. I fully expect Trump to try and gut FDA before all is said and done.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting about this is a lot of e-cig advocates screamed bloody murder that Big Tobacco was behind these regs so they could drive out the smaller e-cig companies (the regulations require that each and every e-cig product, which includes each individual flavouring, undergo rigorous testing before receiving FDA approval, which is cost-prohibitive to a lot of small companies). Now, it seems Big Tobacco — yeah, keep driving this through your head, dammit — BIG TOBACCO is fighting e-cig regulations.<\/p>\n

Do you get it, now? Big Tobacco\u00a0IS e-cigs. They are not in competition. E-cigs have become a wholly owned subsidiary division of RJ Reynolds, Altria and British-American Tobacco. I’m gonna start calling it Big Vape.<\/p>\n

From a Campaign for Tobacco-Free Children (which is more strongly opposed to e-cig than I am) press release:<\/a><\/p>\n

Tobacco companies waged an all-out effort to insert these provisions in the funding bill. The New York Times has reported<\/a> that Altria drafted the first of these provisions and that it was endorsed by R.J. Reynolds. Altria and Reynolds gave $500,000 and $1 million respectively to President Trump\u2019s inauguration, and tobacco interests spent more than $4.7 million in federal lobbying in the first quarter of 2017 alone.<\/p>\n

The budget agreement also provides $205 million for the CDC\u2019s tobacco prevention and cessation programs, rejecting a House proposal that slashed funding to only $100 million (compared to $210 million in FY2016). The CDC will be able to continue initiatives such as the Tips from Former Smokers media campaign that has been so cost effective at helping smokers quit, as well as its assistance to state tobacco prevention programs and quitlines that help smokers trying to quit.<\/p>\n

While this agreement is an important step forward, the tobacco industry is certain to continue its attacks on FDA and CDC efforts to reduce tobacco use \u2013 and even expand them. Legislation introduced last week by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) would repeal the FDA\u2019s current authority to regulate electronic cigarettes and essentially allow the e-cigarette industry to regulate itself. Tobacco interests have also filed multiple lawsuits against the FDA\u2019s 2016 rule establishing oversight of e-cigarettes and cigars. Congress and the Trump Administration must continue to reject these harmful tobacco industry efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I get it that e-cigs legitimately seem to help a lot of people quit cigarettes. My biggest gripe with e-cigs is the marketing toward kids, and the FDA regs do little or nothing to reel that in.<\/p>\n

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As I’ve written about in the past, the Food and Drug Administration passed regulations almost exactly a year\u00a0ago on e-cigarettes. 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