While at least 55 countries have prohibited or restricted the sale of e-cigarettes, they have remained largely unregulated in the United States. That is slated to change this year, as the Food and Drug Administration plans to begin regulating “vaporized nicotine products,” or VNPs —by taking such steps as preventing manufacturers from luring kids with edgy ads or flavored e-cigs.
But seven prominent tobacco experts writing in Addiction, a journal of the Society for the Study of Addiction, are trying to get ahead of the rules, urging regulators to keep a more open mind and take a restrained approach to e-cig regulation.
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