FDA, NIH Officials Encourage E-Cigarette NRT Innovation As Task Force Seizes Illegal Products

FDA tobacco programs chief emphasizes moving smokers to lower risk alternatives and NIDA executive encourages proposals for e-cigarettes as nicotine replacement treatments. FDA also seizes $76m in unauthorized e-cigarettes.

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The US electronic cigarette market recently got good news one day and bad news the next.

The good news, the US Food and Drug Administration’s tobacco programs chief emphasized moving smokers to lower risk alternatives and a National Institute on Drug Abuse executive questioned why no...

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