The [b]US Food and Drug Administration[/b] is proposing sweeping new rules that would extend its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes. [s]The New York Times[/s] reports that the regulatory blueprint, with broad implications for public health, the tobacco industry and the nation’s 42m smokers, would also cover pipe tobacco and cigars, tobacco products that have long slid under the regulatory radar and whose use has risen sharply. The regulations would ban the sale of e-cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco to under-18s. They will establish oversight of what has been a ‘market free-for-all’ of products, including vials of liquid nicotine of ‘varying quality and unknown provenance’.
[link url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/health/fda-will-propose-new-regulations-for-e-cigarettes.html?emc=edit_th_20140424&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=42505380&_r=0]Full report in The New York Times[/link]