The Government's Foolish War on Vaping
Misguided health police are cracking down on e-cigarettes.
Misguided health police are cracking down on e-cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration can't ban cigarettes outright. But the agency appears to be planning a workaround.
Even among teenagers, efforts to prevent underage e-cigarette use may do more harm than good.
If the FDA does not try to reduce underage vaping, Gottlieb says in a Reason interview, congressional intervention could wreck the industry.
The new rules arguably violate the law that gave the agency authority to regulate tobacco products.
The health burden on adults who continue smoking far outweighs the risks for teenagers who vape.
The FDA's decree will make vaping less appealing and less accessible to smokers interested in switching.
The company's plan to prevent underage vaping, which includes limits on constitutionally protected speech, goes beyond what the FDA is expected to require.
The new rule, aimed at preventing underage consumption, threatens public health by making vaping less appealing and less accessible to adult smokers.
Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb's claims about an "epidemic" of underage vaping are hard to evaluate without access to the survey results he cites.
On the upside, agency promises to review over-the-counter drug rules, approve more new drugs, and liberate French dressing.
A new Public Health England report suggests the U.S. has fallen far behind in taking advantage of this harm-reducing alternative.
The senator's claim is based on some highly implausible assumptions.
FDA regulations aimed at discouraging underage vaping may also deter smokers from switching.
The agency is willing to sacrifice the lives of adult smokers in the name of preventing adolescent vaping.
In this sample of nearly 19,000, moving from smoking to vaping was much more common than the reverse.
Bans like San Francisco's hurt smokers by making the potentially lifesaving switch to vaping less attractive.
This will hurt innocent people. It may harm legal businesses. And it won't actually work.
What if the e-cigarette features that appeal to teenagers also appeal to grownups?
Everything we do entails risk. The question is our tolerance for it.
FDA took unconstitutional action when it made electronic cigarettes subject to the Tobacco Control Act (even though they contain no tobacco), lawsuits argue.
An FDA-sponsored report confirms the harm-reducing potential of vaping yet worries, implausibly, that it will boost adolescent smoking.
Keeping up with New York regulations is enough to shut down some businesses.
Past-month cigarette use by high school seniors has fallen by 73 percent since 1997.
A new critique of the surgeon general's report on e-cigarettes puts underage use in perspective.
Federal officials deny big reductions in adolescent tobacco use and obscure the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
If "light" cigarettes were a scam, how can "nonaddictive" cigarettes be a boon?
Embracing harm reduction, the agency's new head tries to make e-cigarette regulations less onerous.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb extends a crucial application deadline by four years and promises "a greater awareness" of vaping's health advantages.
Quit rates rose with e-cigarette sales, and vapers are more likely to stop smoking.
Politicians are using speculative public health studies to restrict individual liberty.
Because lawmakers didn't understand that the future might bring new, better products, we'll soon be stuck with only the old, dirty options.
Defying its own data, the CDC continues to obscure the enormous harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
The Swedish-made cigarette alternative knows all about the FDA's "slow and burdensome" permitting process. Some changes could make Americans healthier.
Why do U.S. officials insist on obscuring them?
According to federal regulators, companies that talk about reducing health risks by switching from smoking to vaping are breaking the law.
Crack downs on vaping often use the idea of it being a gateway as justification.
Updating rules to include "the use of electronic cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems" in national parks.
The latest survey results deal another blow to the hypothesis that vaping leads to smoking.
The FDA is extending the meaning of the Tobacco Control Act to cover cigars, pipe tobacco, and even pipes.
Q&A with "A Billion Lives" director Aaron Biebert.
Vivek Murthy's concern about adolescent vaping is overwrought, and his propaganda is pernicious.
The United Nations' public health agency achieves consensus through mass detentions and media censorship.
A new study that links e-cigarettes to smoking has things backward.
By portraying vaping as a public health menace, the government promotes misconceptions that deter smokers from quitting.
Very few nonsmoking teenagers vape regularly, and even fewer vape nicotine.