Food and Drug Administration Defends Refusal To Approve Flavored E-Cigarettes Before the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court heard the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) appeal in Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments, LLC on Monday. The case concerns the FDA's requirement for scientific studies to approve premarket tobacco applications (PMTAs) for flavored electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) manufacturers and distributors.
FDA Defends Rejection of Vape-Flavor Applications Before Sympathetic Supreme Court
"Common sense tells you that a flavor like 'Mother's Milk and Cookies' is going to be disproportionately attractive to children," Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Curtis Gannon told the justices.
Supreme Court poised to enter fray over regulation of flavored vapes
The Supreme Court is scheduled Monday to consider the regulation of flavored e-cigarettes in a case that illustrates an enduring public health conundrum: how to keep kids away from sweet-flavored, addictive vapes while giving adult smokers better options to help them quit cigarettes.
FDA and e-cigarette makers argue before the Supreme Court over flavored vapes
The Supreme Court will rule whether the Food and Drug Administration has the authority to ban the sale of flavored vapes.
Flavored vape fight at Supreme Court goes up in smoke
The high court seemed skeptical that the FDA acted outside its authority to reject marketing applications for flavored e-cigarettes that could appeal to children.
Supreme Court appears skeptical of vaping firm’s challenge to FDA
The Supreme Court appeared unsympathetic Monday to a challenge from the maker of flavored e-cigarette products to an FDA decision denying authorization to bring them to market. Texas-based Triton Distribution argued that the court should affirm a lower court’s ruling that the agency reconsider its applications to sell flavored liquids containing nicotine that e-cigarettes heat for a user to inhale.
Supreme Court hears arguments regarding the banning of vape and e-cigarette flavors
The U.S. Supreme Court listened to arguments regarding the FDA's handling of banned e-cigarette flavors. Supreme Court hears arguments regarding the banning of vape and e-cigarette flavors Supreme Court justices grappled Monday with arguments about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of flavored electronic cigarettes — and whether the agency acted unfairly in its decision to bar two companies from marketing their products with flavors the agency deemed were a risk to young people.
Supreme Court appears sympathetic to FDA’s rejection of flavored vapes
The FDA has rejected applications for more than 1 million fruit, candy and dessert-flavored e-cigarettes and vaping liquids in recent years.
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More than 1 in 4 Louisiana high schoolers reported vaping, e-cigarette use. See national data.
U.S. high school students use e-cigarettes. That's roughly 3 million students nationwide. While most of the U.S. is improving ...
Supreme Court grapples with flavored vape ban: Key takeaways
The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments about the federal regulation of flavored e-cigarettes, in a case pitting the Food ...
What Donald Trump Has Said About Vaping as SCOTUS Looks at Ban
Donald Trump has given a variety of statements on vaping, as well as being the person who signed off on the FDA ban being argued in court today.
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At Supreme Court, vaping may be frowned upon, but that could change with Trump
The focal point of the case is 2009 law enacted by Congress that gives the Food and Drug Administration a mandate to curb the ...
Supreme Court doesn't seem convinced FDA was unfair in blocking flavored vapes as teen use increased
A majority of Supreme Court justices didn’t seem convinced Monday that federal regulators misled companies before refusing to ...
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Latest Surgeon General's tobacco warning focuses on menthol cigarette ban, maximum nicotine levels
The U.S. Surgeon General has released a 35-year update on smoking-cessation efforts that emphasizes two elimination steps — ...
Supreme Court weighs FDA ban on flavored vapes
Supreme Court justices grappled Monday with arguments about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of flavored ...
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Russian Attempts to Smuggle Banned E-Cigarette at Goa Airport
A Russian national, Eroshkin Aleksei, was caught carrying a banned electronic cigarette at Goa's Manohar International Airport. The device was hidden in his socks. Legal action was initiated under ...
Vaping immediately affects vascular health and oxygen levels, study shows, even without nicotine
Vaping has an immediate effect on how well the user’s blood vessels work, even if the e-cigarette doesn’t contain nicotine, according to new research.