US war on e-cigarettes
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Food and Drugs Administration has withdrawn nearly a million e-cigarettes from the US market. Does this signal a turning point for the vaping industry? Small manufacturers like Amanda Wheeler, owner of Jvapes in Arizona and president of the American Vapor Manufacturers Association, are concerned about heavier regulation, as she tells Joshua Thorpe. Tim Phillips, managing director of ECigIntelligence, explains the impact of heavier regulation on the wider e-cigarette industry. In the UK, Public Health England promotes vaping as a method to stop smoking, as we hear from Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, associate professor at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, at the University of Oxford. But Desmond Jenson, a lawyer at the Public Health Law Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota argues that regulators need to do more to tackle a youth vaping epidemic.
(Picture: a woman vaping. Credit: Getty Images.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Joshua Thorpe. Welcome to Business Daily. On the program today, we're looking at the e-cigret industry. This month in the US, millions of vaping products were withdrawn from the market, as they didn't satisfy the regulators. |
| 0:14.6 | I don't think the impact can be overstated. To remove that many products from the marketplace all at once, it is going to ripple |
| 0:22.7 | throughout the whole economy of the vapor industry. |
| 0:25.9 | The dust-heavy regulation of the industry come at the expense of what many say are the |
| 0:30.1 | benefits of e-cigarettes as a tool to stop smoking. |
| 0:33.1 | If I can buy a cigarette but I can't buy a nicotine containing e-cigarette. That's going to |
| 0:38.3 | suggest to me that it's because the nicotine e-cigarette is more dangerous. And I think we really need |
| 0:42.6 | to be careful when we think about not only what regulations we put in place, but how we |
| 0:47.6 | communicate those regulations. Is this a turning point for vaping manufacturers? And where does |
| 0:53.5 | this leave the public health |
| 0:54.7 | message on e-cigarettes? That's all coming up on Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:02.7 | There's an epidemic spreading. Scientists say it can change your brain. It can release dangerous chemicals like formaldehyde into your blood. |
| 1:14.1 | Well, that's not, as you may be thinking, a public health message warning about the dangers |
| 1:18.2 | of coronavirus or another infectious disease, but a warning about the dangers of vaping. |
| 1:23.3 | It's not a parasite, not a virus, not an infection. |
| 1:29.2 | It's vap a parasite, not a virus, not an infection. It's vaping. |
| 1:36.7 | That advert was put out by the Federal Drugs Administration in the US a few years ago. |
| 1:41.8 | The agencies in charge of regulating the tobacco and e-cigarette industry in the US. |
| 1:45.3 | Earlier this month, the FDA reviewed millions of applications for products from vaping manufacturers. They rejected 5 million of them, mostly from the smaller |
| 1:51.0 | manufacturers, so those products can no longer be sold. But what came as a surprise to many observers |
| 1:57.0 | was that the FDA delayed its decision to approve or reject products made by the industry's |
| 2:02.7 | bigger manufacturers, companies such as Jewel or Enjoy, that have been at the center of |
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