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The scientific community in the United States and Europe are primarily concerned with the possible effect of electronic cigarette use on public health. [1] There is concern among public health experts that e-cigarettes could renormalize smoking, weaken measures to control tobacco, [2] and serve as a gateway for smoking among youth. [3]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a list of additional tobacco products they are seeking to regulate, including electronic cigarettes. [74] Most approved NRT products have been approved for over 20 years, [75] however the FDA has also approved nicotine inhalers as a form of NRT. [76] [77]
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act; Long title: To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal Employees’ Retirement System, and for other purposes.
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The UK's Royal College of Physicians says there is resounding evidence that e-cigarettes are "much safer" than smoking and aid quitting. Doctors: E-cigarettes 'much safer' than smoking and aid ...
Tobacco 21 is produced and funded by the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation, a public health nonprofit organization established in 1996. [5] Several national non-profit organizations, including the American Cancer Society in Oregon, [6] had supported raising the tobacco age.
The Royal College of Physicians suggest that any association between e-cigarette and conventional cigarette use is likely due to common liability to use these products and the use of e-cigarettes to reduce smoking. [34] Dual use of tobacco products and non-tobacco nicotine by continuing smokers is another aspect which has raised concern.
The AMA also proposed declaring snuff and chewing tobacco a health hazard, increasing the tax on cigarettes, prohibiting smoking on public transportation and urged medical facilities to ban smoking on their premises. [94] In 2014, the Association created the AMA Opioid Task Force to evaluate prescription opioid use and abuse. [95]