ban flavored cigarettes flavoured vapes, WHO says, urging tobacco-style controls A new bill in the

Among all [e-cigarette] users, data suggests that mint- and menthol-flavored [electronic nicotine products] are more popular with adults than with kids. Since his first days on the job, Gottlieb has struggled with how to strike this balance between curbing the uptake of e-cigarettes in minors while also helping smokers quit

Awareness and use of heated tobacco products among US adults, 20162017

On April 11, former FDA heads Gottlieb and Mark McClellan published an op-ed calling for the FDA to make modified risk products a renewed part of the US public health agenda. Sweanor pointed to Japan, where cigarette demand fell by more than half between 2010 and 2022, according to the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, coinciding with the introduction of a heated tobacco product

Heated tobacco products are not proven to be safer than cigarettes

In 2017, the e-cigarette market grew by 40 percent

But unlike those safe products, menthol in cigarettes can mask more dangerous chemicals