SAN FRANCISCO'S E-CIGARETTE BAN AIMS TO GOOSE THE FDA

SAN FRANCISCO CITY officials voted unanimously on Tuesday to suspend the sale and delivery of Electronic Cigarettes Wholesale
until the products are approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
The legislation, which still requires a second vote from SF's Board of
Supervisors and the mayor’s signature, would go into effect seven months
after being passed—giving e-cigarette makers until early next year to
win approval from the FDA.

The measure is intended to help stem the explosive popularity of
e-cigarettes among young people, which the US Surgeon General has
described as an epidemic. But it’s not clear that making e-cigarettes
illegal will stop teenagers from vaping.

“We’ll see if it changes behavior,” says Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a
professor at Stanford who studies how e-cigarettes affect young people.
“We don’t know yet.” Halpern-Felsher welcomes the ban, but says it’s
just one step toward addressing the problem. She points out that the
proposal is largely aimed at the makers of e-cigarettes themselves, and
“in a lot of ways this is a message to the FDA.”

The message is hurry up. Dennis Herrera, San Francisco's city
attorney and coauthor of the bill, says the city wants to protect young
people. But he also says he hopes the legislation will “spur the FDA to
do what’s required under the law” and review whether these products are
safe for consumers, and whether e-cigarettes are really the lower-risk
tobacco option they claim to be.

More than one in five middle and high school teenagers vape,
according to the US Centers for Disease Control. In 2018, the FDA warned
e-cigarette companies to stop marketing to children and proposed
restricting the sale of flavored vaping products to minors. Still, the
administration has yet to review the safety of these products. In an
email, FDA spokesperson Michael Felberbaum wrote: “The FDA is committed
to continuing to tackle the troubling epidemic of e-cigarette use among
kids. This includes limiting youth access to, and appeal of, flavored
tobacco products like e-cigarettes and cigars, taking action against
manufacturers and retailers who illegally market or sell these products
to minors, and educating youth about the dangers of e-cigarettes and
other tobacco products.”
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