{"id":17361,"date":"2018-09-12T16:26:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/us-plans-crackdown-on-e-cigarette-firms-citing-epidemic-teen-use\/29"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:26:29","slug":"us-plans-crackdown-on-e-cigarette-firms-citing-epidemic-teen-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=17361","title":{"rendered":"US plans crackdown on e-cigarette firms citing &#8216;epidemic&#8217; teen use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/us-plans-crackdown-on-e-cigarette-firms-citing-epidemic-teen-use-5b993e357afb0.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Image copyright Getty Images Image caption FDA Chief Scott Gottlieb has warned of a crackdown on e-cigarette companies <\/p>\n<p>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>FDA chief Scott Gottlieb said: &#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<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" aria-hidden=\"true\">  <\/div>\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<\/div>\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":1,"featured_media":17359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[768,7991,6478,988,7992],"class_list":["post-17361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-business","tag-e-cigarettes","tag-smoking","tag-society","tag-tobacco-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}