The FDA Is Late in Banning E-Cigarettes That Tempt Kids
Teen vaping has reached epidemic proportions. The agency should have taken action on popular brands of high-nicotine and menthol-flavored products weeks ago.
Dangerous.
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The Food and Drug Administration needs a wake-up call.
More than 3 million U.S. high-school students and another half a million middle-school students use e-cigarettes, many of which are loaded with so much nicotine they could not be legally sold in Canada, the U.K. or Europe. The addictive nature of these products makes them a menace to students’ health, and it’s clear that kids are being drawn in by a tactic the industry has long used to hook young smokers: sweet, flavored products, including menthol.