E-cigarettes' Future Generates Questions, Not Their Efficacy For Smoking Cessation

FDA has made clear since e-cigarette sales emerged that they're not approved for labeling as products to help consumers stop using combustible tobacco. Agency also has acted on concerns about products' safety and appeal of flavored nicotine to minors. But likelihood of sales in US ending, not whether products help smokers quit, was discussed at FDLI conference.

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Electronic cigarettes aren't approved for smoking cessation labeling but success rates for US smokers attempting to quit will falter if consumer access is limited, extending potentially to forcing all currently available products off the market.

The US Food and Drug Administration has made clear since sales of e-cigarettes in the US began in the late...

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