US Health officials recognize an e-cigarette crisis from nicotine-addicted adolescents and call for rapid action at the state and local level
Walley SC, Wilson KM, Winickoff JP, Groner J. A public health crisis: electronic cigarettes, vape and JUUL. Pediatrics. 2019; 143(6):e20182741. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31122947“More than 3.5 million US middle and high school students and a similar number of college-aged young adults are on a path to nicotine addiction because of slickly marketed, highly flavored, nicotine-salt e-cigarettes. Given the propensity for youthful e-cigarette users to move to traditional cigarettes and the deleterious outcomes of nicotine addiction on the adolescent brain, this generational wave of addiction is a public health crisis.”
See Also: Crane R, Berman ML, Waxman J. Empowering State and Local Regulation of Tobacco and Nicotine Products to Protect Youths. JAMA Health Forum. 27 Jan 2021
https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/2775946
Comment: Because of inadequate US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) action, the article above advises: “Rather than wait for the FDA, US Congress must eliminate federal preemption on the regulation of nicotine product ingredients to allow local and state governments all the tools they need to develop their own effective policy responses more rapidly.” NOTE: Health professionals are calling for action at the local or state level in the US since the Federal government has failed to act. Stephen Hamann
Stephen Hamann
