The Trump administration wants to fundamentally change the way the US government regulates tobacco and e-cigarette products, and the plan to move regulatory authority out of the FDA is being met with strong condemnation from the public health community
Partial e-cigarette 'flavor ban' goes into effect today. Here's what happens nextThe plan is laid out in a small note in the Trump administration's $4.8 trillion budget proposal released on Monday. The proposal would shift the oversight of tobacco products out of the FDA and create a new agency under the US Department of Health and Human Services.
"What the FDA does with e-cigarettes over the next 12 months means we either have a youth vaping epidemic that will be with us for decades to come or they could take decisive action now," Myers said. Restructuring now would shift the focus to creating a new agency, not protecting public health."This is the wrong policy at the absolute wrong time if you care about public health and kids.
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