FDA Can Regulate E-Cigarettes as Tobacco Products

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U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can regulate electronic cigarettes only as tobacco products. The Court’s decision means the FDA is entitled to monitor the marketing and sales of the products, but has no authority to restrict them. The FDA initially asked the court whether it can ban electronic cigarettes or regulate them as drugs.
An inhalator is used to inhale medications in the form of a mist. An electronic cigarette is battery-powered device,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], containing a cartridge with liquid nicotine. When used,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the battery heats the liquid and it is inhaled in vaporized form. So,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], both devices work in a similar way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so that is strange that the court has decided that e-cig is not a drug-delivery device,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], delivering nicotine, a highly addictive and harmful substance.
Nicotine is highly poisonous and its ingestion can lead to poisoning, nervous breakdowns, vomiting and other adverse effects,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including death.