September 11th, 2014
From: American Dental Association
By Craig Palmer
Dental researchers want to know the oral effects of the increasingly popular battery-powered devices that deliver cigarettes electronically and in an array of flavors, vapors and venues ranging from convenience store to “vape shop” and including the Internet.
As public health officials cast regulatory eyes on the relatively new and expanding e-cigarette market, an “evolving frontier” as the World Health Organization describes it, there’s little research available on the health risks to users and non-users and almost nothing on the oral effects of the contents and emissions of these nicotine delivery systems.
September 5th, 2014
From: The Guardian
Critics of WHO bid to curb vaping believe the devices are powerful aid to help smokers quit tobacco
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Switching from tobacco to e-cigarettes could save more than 50,000 smokers’ lives in the UK, according to experts who are critical of the World Health Organisation‘s recommendations for curbs on vaping.
The WHO called on governments last week to regulate the advertising and marketing of e-cigarettes and ban indoor vaping over concerns about the possibility that young people may be tempted to take up e-cigarettes and later change to tobacco. The government said it would not ban the indoor use of e-cigarettes, although more regulations over their marketing, sale and content were on their way.
August 21st, 2014
Editor’s Note: Cross-Posted from OIRA Watch.
From: CSPnet.com
Proposed regulations won’t go into effect for at least a year
By Thomas A. Briant, Executive Director
MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed the public to submit comments in response to the agency’s proposed tobacco deeming regulations until August 8th. The FDA issued the deeming regulations on April 24, 2014. When the comment period closed earlier this month, almost 82,000 individual comments had been submitted on-line in response to the deeming regulations. So, what happens next?
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August 14th, 2014
From: The Flordia Times-Union
TALLAHASSEE | Attorney General Pam Bondi said the federal government is going “overboard” with proposed regulations to link electronic cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products to the same rules as the cigarette industry.
Bondi wrote in a letter that she wants the Food and Drug Administration to consider the potential impact of the announced rule changes on Ybor City cigar manufacturer J.C. Newman Cigar, urging the federal agency to “more narrowly tailor these overboard regulations.”
