{"id":2091,"date":"2018-09-12T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/us-plans-crackdown-on-e-cigarette-firms-citing-epidemic-teen-use\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:14:05","slug":"us-plans-crackdown-on-e-cigarette-firms-citing-epidemic-teen-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/us-plans-crackdown-on-e-cigarette-firms-citing-epidemic-teen-use\/","title":{"rendered":"US plans crackdown on e-cigarette firms citing &#8216;epidemic&#8217; teen use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/16241\/production\/_103398609_gettyimages-866274606.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    FDA Chief Scott Gottlieb has warned of a crackdown on e-cigarette companies<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The US Food and Drug Administration is considering banning the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes, citing an &#8220;epidemic&#8221; of use among teens.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, announced on Wednesday, is part of a broader effort to curb teen use of the nicotine devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/NewsEvents\/Newsroom\/PressAnnouncements\/ucm620185.htm\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">FDA chief Scott Gottlieb said<\/a>: &#8220;The disturbing and accelerating trajectory of use we&#8217;re seeing in youth, and the resulting path to addiction, must end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The toughened approach comes after firms ignored prior concerns, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been warning the e-cigarette industry for more than a year that they needed to do much more to stem the youth trends,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my view, they treated these issues like a public relations challenge rather than seriously considering their legal obligations, the public health mandate, and the existential threat to these products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m here to tell them that this prior approach is over.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45500894\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Image caption FDA Chief Scott Gottlieb has warned of a crackdown on e-cigarette companies The US Food and Drug Administration is considering banning the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes, citing an &#8220;epidemic&#8221; of use among teens. The proposal, announced on Wednesday, is part of a broader effort to curb teen use of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}