New Data on Youth E-Cigarette Use Prompts Legislators to Pass Regulations

Recent news report from Reuters have shown that advocates of public safety and health are putting pressure on the U.S. legislators to pass restriction regulation on the accessibility and use of e-cigarettes among children from high school and middle school.

New data reveals that just last year e-cigarette use has dangerously tripled by children from high school and middle school.  These figures were released and collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last Thursday as health officials have shown concern that these e-cigarettes have created an entirely new and harmful generation of addicts to nicotine.  This addiction may also lead to eventually turning to smoking the conventional cigarettes.

Studies have shown that smoking of conventional cigarettes have fallen more than 25% over a year.  With the e-cigarette popularity, it has somewhat diverted the young generation away from smoking cigarettes but advocates of tobacco control have rejected this study.

The government has issued a regulation through the Food and Drug Administration on conventional cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or roll-on tobacco.  The regulation should even extend to hookahs and the widely-used e-cigarettes.

Michael Felberbaum, an FDA spokesman said that their agency is making every possible means to finalize negotiations on the enactment of the law to ban use of e-cigarettes among minors.

This is not easy as the FDA has received a lot of comments from the public regarding the proposal on the regulation and according to law, they should review all 135,000 comments.

In addition, the regulation must also be passed to the Department of Health and the Human Services before finally going to the Office of Management and Budget of the White House as this is the body that analyzes any potential consequences on the economy with the proposed regulation.