![]() “There are so many of these products,” she says. “It’s a bit of a game of whack-a-mole, so when policies are aimed at one product, another product pops-up to fill the void,” Delnevo says.ĭelnevo and her collaborators have documented some of the rapid changes in disposable vaping products in a new paper published recently in the journal Tobacco Control. The industry has been very creative at getting new products on the market quickly, despite regulators’ efforts to curb teen use, says Cristine Delnevo, who directs the Center for Tobacco Studies at Rutgers University. The agency has enforcement discretion to take action and in the guidance the agency specified it could take action on any e-cigarette product that’s “targeted to minors.” ![]() Quinton Tran, of Lancaster County, exhales vapor at his kitchen table.Īt any time, the FDA could crack down on the new disposables. “It won’t take the kids and it hasn’t taken the kids any time to make a switch. It focused enforcement on flavored cartridges, like Juul’s popular products.īut it left open some “loopholes,” says Matt Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. The enforcement guidance issued by Food and Drug Administration was aimed at stopping young people from vaping. These products are flourishing despite the Trump administration’s partial ban on flavored e-cigarettes, announced in January and in effect as of Feb 5. “These have just flooded the market,” Berkman says. “Among the disposables are most popular, there’s Puff Bar, there’s Stig, there’s Viigo,” Berkman says. “Juul is almost old school … It’s no longer the teen favorite,” says Meredith Berkman, co-founder of the advocacy group PAVE, Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes. By the time Juul pulled most of its flavored pods from the market in October of 2019, many teens had already moved on to an array of newer, disposable vape products. ![]() (Washington) - Efforts to stem the tide of teen vaping seem to be a step behind the market. She received a bag of vape pens recently confiscated by a high school principal in northern California, with flavors like Banana Ice and Cool Mint. Now, it’s time to find better ways to interact with you and ensure we meet your high standards of what a credible media organization should be.ĭisposable vapes may be hotter than Juul among kids, according to researcher Bonnie Halpern-Felsher. The days of journalism’s one-way street of simply producing stories for the public have long been over.
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