WASHINGTON ? The Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday that it plans to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products and won?t regulate them as drug-delivering devices.
The FDA said in a letter to stakeholders that it intends to propose rule changes to treat e-cigs the same traditional cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Bloomberg reports: ?The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said in December the FDA can only regulate e-cigarettes as a tobacco product if they aren?t marketed for therapeutic purposes. The ruling meant the government can oversee the sales of the products.
?E-cigarette maker Sottera Inc., which does business as Njoy, argued in the case that its products ? battery-powered devices that generate a nicotine vapor instead of smoke ? are tobacco products and not drugs. E-cigarettes are marketed as a tobacco alternative for ?smoking pleasure,? rather than for therapeutic uses, the company said.?
Be on the lookout for the May issue of NACS Magazine and a feature article on e-cigarettes.
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