U.S. E-Cigarette Regulations – 50 State Review

This report from the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) presents progress on the implementation of the tobacco control provisions set forth in the 2005 Convention. The tenth edition of the report, it presents data collected from 134 member countries, providing an overview of tobacco control measures, implementation needs and challenges, and recommendations. The report provides data on the implementation of key tobacco measures,  including price and taxes, protection from tobacco smoke,…

This article in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report summarizes what is known about the U.S. outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI). 82 percent of 2,668 EVALI patients hospitalized between August 2019 and January 2020 used products with THC; many of these THC-containing products contained Vitamin E acetate as an additive. Though U.S. cases peaked in mid-September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that individuals avoid THC vaping products…

This article in Vox describes the U.S. policy decision in December 2019 to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products—including cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and vaping products with nicotine—from 18 to 21. This move represents a months-long bipartisan process, emerging from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and also through an end-of-year federal spending bill in Congress. Public health professionals are hopeful that this federal law will help prevent teens—the population most likely to become addicted—from…