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USA: FDA plans to impose restrictions on sale of e-cigarettes at c-stores

U.S. federal regulators are planning a ban on the sale of most flavoured e-cigarettes at retail locations like gas stations and convenience stores.



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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will issue a ban on the sale of fruit and candy flavoured electronic cigarettes at convenience stores to tackle the recent surge in teenage use of e-cigarettes, according to an agency official.

The FDA’s new measure means that only tobacco, mint and menthol flavours can be sold at these outlets. The agency will also introduce stricter age-verification requirements for online sales of e-cigarettes.

"The bottom line is that we are creating a whole pool of kids addicted to nicotine through e-cigarettes, some proportion of them are going to become longer term users of combustible tobacco that otherwise might never have initiated on tobacco," said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in Politico's podcast Pulse Check.

Recent efforts to clamp down on flavoured e-cigarettes and menthol cigarettes have seen British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands lose $9 billion in their stock market value, reports The Guardian. 

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