WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's administration announced on Wednesday it would soon ban flavoured e-cigarette products to stem a rising tide of youth users, following a spike in vaping-linked deaths.
Trump was accompanied by Ned Sharpless, the acting head of the Food and Drug Administration that regulates e-cigarettes and by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who responded to a question about the proposed timeline by saying his agency would issue rules in the coming weeks. But Azar also tweeted:"If data show kids migrating to tobacco-flavoured products, we will do what's necessary to tackle continued youth use of these products."
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has urged people to cease vaping while a nationwide investigation is underway. While e-cigarettes do not contain the estimated 7,000 chemical constituents present in traditional cigarettes, a number of substances have been identified as potentially harmful and the vapour could contain traces of metal, according to a 2018 study prepared for Congress.
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