Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is Out of Its Mind Declaring that Appropriations Rider Would Have Been a Gift to the Tobacco Industry

Unfortunately, the budget deal reached in Congress this week fails to include a rider which would have changed the "grandfather" or predicate date for electronic cigarettes from February 15, 2007 to the effective date of the regulation. This means that every electronic cigarette and vaping product on the market will have to submit a new tobacco product application to the FDA in order to stay on the market. In contrast, when the Tobacco Act was originally enacted in 2009, almost all cigarettes on the market received a free pass, not having to do anything to stay on the market. And since that time, not a single safety requirement has been placed on cigarettes by the FDA. In other words, the FDA's regulation of cigarettes has given these products a free ride with no safety requirements, no applications, and no required changes.Despite the free ride given to cigarettes and the burdensome and prohibitively expensive new product applications required for electronic cigarettes, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids had the gall to declare that regulating e-cigarettes in the same way as real cigarettes would have been a "giveaway" to the tobacco industry.In a press release yesterday, entitled "Budget Agreement Protects Kids and Health by Rejecting Tobacco Industry Giveaways," the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids stated:"The budget agreement reached by congressional negotiators delivers critical victories for America’s kids and health over the tobacco industry by rejecting proposals to...
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