FDA Intensifies Crackdown On E-Cigarette Sales To Teenagers
The Food and Drug Administration said teen vaping has reached epidemic proportions, prompting more than 1,300 warning letters to stores selling e-cigarettes to kids and an ultimatum to four companies.
by Rob Stein
Sep 12, 2018
2 minutes
The Food and Drug Administration announced a set of major new enforcement actions Wednesday aimed at reducing the sales and marketing of electronic cigarettes to teenagers.
Saying vaping among teenagers has reached "an epidemic proportion," the agency said it was taking a "series of critical and historic" measures to curb the alarming trends.
"We must do more to stem what I. "The FDA won't tolerate a whole generation of young people becoming addicted to nicotine."
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