By Richard Craver
The Food and Drug Administration is forging ahead with implementing a controversial set of new regulations on tobacco and nicotine products.
The rules, made official May 5, are set to go into effect Aug. 8 for electronic cigarettes, vaporizers, cigars, hookahs (water pipes), pipe tobacco, nicotine gels and certain dissolvables. The agency’s intent is clarifying the products’ potential for causing or reducing public harm.