San Francisco officials are proposing changes that could ban vape sales in the city and jeopardize the headquarters of leading e-cigarette company Juul Labs
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"I would like for [Juul] to have been gone yesterday," Supervisor Shamann Walton told reporters Tuesday. To help fight vaping, schools look to their own studentsHe and City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced a four-pronged initiative that includes legislation which, if passed, could ban the sale of e-cigarettes that haven't undergone premarket review by the US Food and Drug Administration, according to a statement Tuesday.
Last week, the FDA proposed moving up its deadline for e-cigarette companies to submit applications for premarket review to August 8, 2021 -- and not the following year, as is the current case.The agency released a policy draft that, if finalized, would take action against stores selling flavored e-cig products that are accessible to minors and against websites selling them without verifying buyers' ages and limiting the maximum quantities they sell.
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