banishment of most fruity flavours.<\/a><\/p>\nFrom now on, only menthol-flavoured cigarettes will be allowed.<\/p>\n
Sales of e-cig products will also be restricted to “adult areas” in stores. I have no idea, and I think few people do, how exactly this would work. It sounds like it could literally be a storage closet in the back with a curtain. This was a huge step back from the \u00a0proposal put forward by Gottlieb a few months ago. He originally proposed that e-cig sales would be restricted solely to tobacco shops, not convenience stores. I liked that idea, because there’s about 1\/10th as many tobacco shops as convenience stores.<\/p>\n
But, the convenience store industry balked at that and now we have this hybrid policy that no one knows how is going to work.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, with Gottlieb stepping down and a very pro-industry Trump administration in power at the moment, I remain cynical whether the FDA will actually go through with these regulations. Don’t be shocked if this all gets mysteriously dropped in the next few weeks. Gottlieb was a huge advocate (in the Trump administration, weird, huh) against teen smoking and teen vaping. Teen vaping has in particular skyrocketed the past five years, as the largely unregulated vaping industry was absolutely brazen about using \u00a0friuity, kiddie flavours like bubble gum and Sprite and marketing their products to teens very much like the tobacco industry did 30 and 40 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Even with FDA chief Scott Gottlieb stepping down, the agency went ahead this week with its new rules regulating the sales of e-cig products — the big change being the banishment of most fruity flavours. From now on, only menthol-flavoured cigarettes will be allowed. 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