Spending time on tracking unauthorized electronic signals actually more harm than the health benefits of Americans-IJR

The Trump administration faces a significant problem: millions of unauthorized flavored tobacco products and couples continue to spread throughout the country, while bureaucratic agencies are lagging behind in approving these products on the market. In response, the United States on US Nutrition and Medicines (FDA) cooperates with the Ministry of Justice (Doj) and other organizations to contain the import of millions of e -cigarettes.

Despite the fact that removing technically illegal products may seem useful, increasing control limits the access of adult consumers to safer alternatives and neglects record use of e -cigarettes of youth. Meanwhile, valuable resources are distracted by adult -oriented products, instead of solving the influx of much more dead substances, such as fentanyl, which causes more than 100,000 US deaths annually.

Unlike alarming rhetoric from public health groups, e -cigarettes and other new nicotine products, they are proven tools to reduce tobacco. More than a decade of evidence shows that e -cigarettes are much safer than combustible cigarettes, and contribute to a sharp decrease in smoking rate in all age groups.

Unfortunately, millions of adult smokers, as well as electronic cigarette manufacturers and retailers, are faced with significant obstacles. FDA refuses to recognize the role of scents in facilitating the stopping smoking and the Commissioner simply 34 Electronic Cigarette ProductsAll are limited by tobacco and menthol aromas. Despite the lack of FDA approval, the electronic cigarette market-special Vapes-growth, coinciding with a 70.5% decrease in Vaping’s youth since peak reaches in 2019. By 2024, only 5.9% of medium and high school students reported the use of e -cigarettes. Meanwhile retail sale of e -cigarette units increased by 47% for the same period.

IN June 2024FDA and Doj launched a federal special group of a lot of agency to “combat illegal distribution and selling e -cigarettes”, involvement of agencies such as alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives and the USAl Marshal. From the moment of their creation of the working group helped to give out Constant ban Against the e -cigarette company of Western Virginia and capture millions Electronic cigarette products. IN JanuaryFDA, US domestic security and customs protection and border protection “have announced a profit of more than 628,000 unauthorized electronic cigarette products from Miam … (which) were estimated at over $ 7 million.”

These efforts do not notice critical facts: Youth Vaping is at the lowest level for decades, and adults are consumers of flavored electronic cigarettes, as confirmed by retail sales and consumer surveys. Survey nearly 2018 nearly 70,000 American adults “The aromas found play a vital role in using electronic cigarettes and Vaping devices.” About 83.2% and 72.3% Respondents survey Informed about the fetkotic and dessert tastes, respectively, “at least for a while.”

Moreover, young people are primarily attracted to e -cigarettes for fragrances, and for self -medication during the growing mental health crisis. According to the CDC, in 2021, among young people who currently used electronic cigarettes, the most common cause of use was because of anxiety, depression and/or stress, as reported by 43.4% of young people. Only 13.2% is quoted with e -cigarettes due to scents.

But while youth drawing is declining, young overdose is increasing. According to National Association of Primary School DirectorsIn 2023, “the United States recorded more than 40,000 emergency visits to overdose in children under 15 years of age.” Approximately 22 teenagers were fatally overdose on a week 2022 – or approximately the equivalent of the audience. Yet, Sorrowful parents And the epidemic of fentanyl, it is not possible to get the same federal focus as flavored electronic cigarettes.

If the FDA is intended to eliminate unauthorized steam products, it must process its approval process, which suffocates innovations in reducing tobacco products. Only three tobacco companies also sell cigarettes issued orders for marketing E-cigarettes FDA. However, in a rare step The agency has recently issued an order For non-traditional tobacco aromas of oral nicotine products, the agency can finally recognize a role played by aromas, helping adults quit smoking.

Doj should review his partnership with FDA, and President Trump, along with Congress leaders, should press on FDA to determine priority threats to health care. The doj weapon to limit flavored e -cigarettes reflects the fundamental incorrect distribution of resources and misunderstanding of health care needs. Appeal to the fentanyl epidemic and adopting a science -oriented policy will be much better to protect health than bureaucratic inefficiency and improper performance.

Lindsey is a free market and a Vaping lawyer based in Florida, USA.

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