His advice:
- Talk to teenagers. If the teen is vaping, talk with them about the health concerns, and connect them to resources to help them quit, including your pediatrician.
- Get involved at the school level. Advocate for tobacco- and e-cigarette-free campuses.
- Push for policies that protect youth. Call your representatives at the state, local or federal level. ...
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How can we prevent teens from using e-cigarettes and tobacco products?
Educating teens about the dangers of using any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes, as well as educating retailers about their key role in protecting youth FDA's enforcement actions and youth education efforts designed to protect kids from the harms of e-cigarettes include:
How can I Help my Child quit smoking and vaping?
Here are some of the most effective ways you can steer your kids away from tobacco: Maintain a dialogue. Start early — begin talking with your kids about smoking and vaping in kindergarten. Be honest and open to seeing things from your child’s point of view. And don’t stop.
How can we protect youth from flavoring in vapor products?
Strategy 2: Provide evidence-based messaging to youth and young adults on the harms of flavoring in vapor products. Strategy 3: Use of media communications to educate on the evidence and tactics recommended to protect youth from initiating tobacco and electronic smoking device use.
Are vape products unapproved drugs?
In 2010, The judge ruled in favor of the vapor companies, which stopped FDA from banning vapor products as unapproved drugs – as long as they were not marketed as smoking cessation therapies.
How to keep kids safe from smoking?
What is the Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan?
What is the FDA warning about?
When did the FDA expand work with Scholastic?
How many retailers are affected by the e-cigarette epidemic?
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Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youths, Surgeon General fact sheet
Fact Sheet. This is the 31st tobacco-related Surgeon General’s report issued since 1964. It describes the epidemic of tobacco use among youth ages 12 through 17 and young adults ages 18 through 25, including the epidemiology, causes, and health effects of this tobacco use and interventions proven to prevent it.
Youth and Tobacco | FDA
Almost 90 percent of adult daily smokers started smoking by the age of 18, 1 and about 1500 youth under 18 smoke their first cigarette every day in the United States. 2 In fact, use of tobacco ...
Tobacco Education Resources for Parents and Teachers | FDA
As a parent, educator, or someone who works with youth, you can play an active role in fighting tobacco use among youth. Our data shows that there has been an alarming increase in e-cigarette use ...
Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults
What’s Inside . This Booklet. This booklet contains highlights from the 2012 Surgeon General’s report on tobacco . use among youth and teens ages 12 through 17 and young adults ages 18 through 25.
How many youth use e-cigarettes in 2020?
While we are seeing some progress in youth prevalence rates, the fact that there are still 3.6 million youth e-cigarettes users in 2020 is deeply concerning and underscores the critical need for FDA to address youth use of e-cigarettes and other ENDS.
When did the FDA start regulating e-cigarettes?
It is important to note FDA’s initial efforts to regulate e-cigarettes began more than a decade ago. Between 2008 and 2010, FDA attempted to regulate e-cigarettes as unapproved drug/device combination products. FDA’s action was challenged and ultimately, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that while FDA could choose to regulate e-cigarettes and other products “made or derived from tobacco” under its new tobacco authorities, it could not regulate these products under FDA’s drug and device authority unless they were marketed for therapeutic purposes. 1
How many inspections has the FDA done?
Since 2010, FDA has conducted more than 900 inspections of manufacturing establishments, some of which manufacture ENDS products (including e-liquids). Since the Deeming rule took effect on August 8, 2016, FDA has conducted more than 2,500 vape shop inspections.
What is the FDA's authority to regulate tobacco?
Under the statute, FDA had immediate authority to regulate cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco.
How many warning letters did the FDA issue in 2021?
As of May 31, 2021, FDA had issued more than 120 warning letters to firms selling or distributing unauthorized ENDS and that did not submit premarket applications by the September 9 deadline. Collectively these companies have listed a combined total of over 1,280,000 products with FDA.
What is the FDA's role in tobacco?
In 2009, Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act), which amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) to authorize FDA to oversee the manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of tobacco products and protect the public from the harmful effects of tobacco product use.
Why is the FDA investing in research?
FDA is investing in regulatory science research to learn more about how ENDS products are being used and their health impacts. Research findings help inform the Agency’s regulatory decision-making.
What to do if a friend offers a cigarette?
Discuss what they might say if a friend offers a cigarette or e-cigarette. Set a good example. If you smoke or vape, the best thing you can do is quit. At a minimum, don’t smoke around your children. Establish a smoke-free home. Don’t allow family members or friends to smoke in your home or car.
How to steer kids away from tobacco?
Here are some of the most effective ways you can steer your kids away from tobacco: Maintain a dialogue. Start early — begin talking with your kids about smoking and vaping in kindergarten. Be honest and open to seeing things from your child’s point of view. And don’t stop.
What are tobacco companies targeting?
Tobacco companies are targeting young people with ads, price discounts and enticing new products such as e-cigs designed to look like sleek gadgets. Many teens and young adults exposed to these efforts are highly impressionable and dealing with social pressures to “fit in” with peers.
Can you smoke with your kids?
At a minimum, don’t smoke around your children. Establish a smoke-free home. Don’t allow family members or friends to smoke in your home or car. Make sure the places your child spends a lot of time are tobacco-free. If your child has started smoking or vaping, try to learn why.
When did the FDA stop selling vapor products?
The short story begins in 2009, when the FDA tried to ban the sale of vapor products as “unapproved drugs” being marketed as smoking cessation aids. Vapor companies responded with a lawsuit arguing that their products were not intended to be a smoking cessation treatment, which would require FDA approval as a drug/device in order to be sold. Instead, plaintiffs argued that their products were simply competing with sales of cigarettes. In 2010, The judge ruled in favor of the vapor companies, which stopped FDA from banning vapor products as unapproved drugs – as long as they were not marketed as smoking cessation therapies. Judge Leon also gave the opinion that FDA may be able to regulate vapor products as tobacco under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA or TCA), enacted in 2009.
Who regulates vapor cigarettes?
For a complete history on how the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) came to regulate vapor and other nicotine products, please see CASAA’s Historical Timeline of Vaping and Electronic Cigarettes.
What is PMTA in tobacco?
PMTA is an acronym for “Pre-Market Tobacco Application.” Manufacturers that introduced products to the market (or modified them) after the February 15, 2007 grandfather date are required to submit PMTAs to the FDA if they intend to continue selling them. These applications must demonstrate that the product is “appropriate for the protection of public health.” Because no vapor products were on the market prior to the grandfather date, they are all required to undergo this premarket review process by FDA.
Is synthetic nicotine legal in Alabama?
Synthetic nicotine (nicotine made in a lab, not extracted from the tobacco plant) is a temporary solution, at best. While the FDA has stated that non-tobacco nicotine currently falls outside of its regulatory authority, state and local governments are already updating their laws to include it. Alabama, for example, recently banned the sale of vapor products containing synthetic nicotine unless they receive marketing orders from the FDA. Several states are working on or have already adopted legislation that incorporates synthetic nicotine into existing tobacco regulations.
Is there a future for FDA to regulate nicotine?
FDA may, in the future, have the ability to regulate synthetic nicotine as a tobacco product. Currently, there is discussion about FDA’s authority over lab-made nicotine as a drug. Regardless of which path FDA is able to take, it is likely we will see federal regulation in the near future.
Can you use synthetic nicotine in e-liquid?
As previously discussed, e-liquids made with synthetic nicotine may be available for some time before states or the FDA catch up. And while CASAA cannot advise our members to engage in illegal activities, we can certainly point out the obvious, namely, that informal sources of vapor products are already available.
Tobacco Marketing
The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) implemented many restrictions in 2009 on advertising and marketing of tobacco and tobacco-related products aimed at youth, but these restrictions are specific and only apply to cigarette and other combustible tobacco products. E-cigarette and vape companies have capitalized on this gap in regulations.
E-Liquid, or E-Juice
E-cigarette, or vaping, products are attractive to youths because of their array of bright colors, sleek designs, and a selection of over 15,000 e-juice flavors to choose from. These flavors are often given flamboyant names, such as:
Youth Curiosity
A study conducted by the University of Michigan in 2015 asked students from 8th, 10th, and 12th grades:
Social Exposure
In 2019, among the 32.7% of high school students who were currently using electronic vapor products, 32.6% were frequent users. The high rate of use leads to the assumption youth are constantly exposed to e-cigarette use and vaping among their own peers.
How to keep kids safe from smoking?
To keep kids safe, follow storage tips, know the poison control number, and make sure to properly handle e-liquids. Report sales to minors and other potential tobacco violations. The Tobacco Control Act and related regulations give FDA tools to help keep tobacco out of the hands of America's youth.
What is the Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan?
FDA's Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan. Image. FDA's Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan—a key component of the agency's Comprehensive Plan for To bacco and Nicotine Regulation —is a series of actions to stop youth use of tobacco products, especially e-cigarettes, with special focus on three key areas: Preventing youth access to tobacco products.
What is the FDA warning about?
November 2018: FDA warns company for selling e-liquids that resemble kid-friendly foods as part of the agency’s ongoing Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan. November 2018: Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on proposed new steps to protect youth by preventing access to flavored tobacco products and banning menthol in cigarettes.
When did the FDA expand work with Scholastic?
November 2019: FDA expands work with Scholastic with launch of new youth e-cigarette prevention educational resources for middle and high schools. March 2019: Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on advancing new policies aimed at preventing youth access to, and appeal of, flavored tobacco products, ...
How many retailers are affected by the e-cigarette epidemic?
September 2018: FDA takes new steps to address epidemic of youth e-cigarette use, including a historic action against more than 1,300 retailers and 5 major manufacturers for their roles perpetuating youth access.
Introduction
Background
Regulatory Requirements For Ends Products
Data on Youth Use of E-Cigarettes
FDA’s Actions to Address Youth Use of Ends Products
- Protecting our nation’s youth from the dangers of tobacco products is among the Agency’s most important responsibilities, and we are taking aggressive steps to make sure tobacco products are not being marketed or sold to kids. Our work to protect youth from tobacco products is comprehensive and includes compliance and enforcement, premarket review,...
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