Not good, but better than smoking | The Economist explains
THE REGULATORS at America’s Food and Drug Administration could be forgiven for wanting a cigarette break. They rushed to meet a September 9th deadline to decide whether more than 6.5m e-cigarette products made by over 500 companies can remain on the market. When the deadline arrived, the agency had made determinations covering about 93% of the products submitted for review. It will block the sale of more than 946,000 flavoured products.
Regulators and politicians are right to worry about the long-term effects of e-cigarettes, but widespread bans risk forgoing the potential health benefits of people turning to e-cigarettes as a substitute for the conventional sort. And the tide may be turning on the vaping epidemic among teenagers. The proportion of America’s high-school students vaping fell from 27.5% in 2019 to 19.6% last year, according to the National Youth Tobacco Survey.
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