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[...] to be able to specify how it intends to regulate the unfettered marketing of many dangerous tobacco products." Makers of e-cigarettes said they were happy. "I think we are pleased the FDA is [...]

[...] , created by people looking for a way to quit smoking cigarettes. It was not created by tobacco companies, nor by pharmaceutical companies. It was created by people like me, for people like me, [...]

[...] soon after the agency was given regulatory power over tobacco in 2009. Hamburg noted that tobacco companies then started making flavored cigars and she said that worries her. Last year, the FDA found [...]

[...] a rational basis. But if the FDA's lack of approval constitutes such a basis, the agency's new regulations promise to obviate it in due course. As for increasing the "social acceptability of [...]

[...] only became popular within the past decade. Now more than 250 brands have proliferated. The new regulations would extend limits that are currently on cigarettes to other tobacco products, including e- [...]

[...] liquid in e-cigarettes, Dr. Burstyn was able to determine that the levels of contaminants e-cigarette users are exposed to are insignificant, far below levels that would pose any health risk.   [...]

[...] , unless of course, my government makes me, which is what this story is about. The “electronic cigarette” was invented in 1963, but the current vaping industry is grassroots, created by [...]

[...] make the products more addictive. JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES FILE Michael Crespo enjoys an electronic cigarette at the Vapor Shark store on Feb. 20, in Miami. The FDA has proposed the first rules on e- [...]

[...] at quitting between summer 2009 and February 2014. The adjusted results suggest that e-cig users were 60 percent more likely to succeed than those trying nicotine replacement or quitting [...]

[...] often cite the lack of research and carcinogens in e-cigs as reason for caution — but e-cig users note that they’ve kicked their tobacco habit by vaping instead. Ultimately, as the surgeon [...]