The 5th Circuit ruled that the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it rejected applications from manufacturers of flavored nicotine e-liquids.
The agency's inscrutable approach to harm-reducing nicotine products sacrifices consumer choice and public health on the altar of youth protection.
Policies that increase the use of traditional cigarettes are unlikely to improve public health.
The judicially approved Brookline ban reflects a broader trend among progressives who should know better.
Zyn pouches are a dramatically safer alternative to smoking.
Heated tobacco products are coming to America, at long last. How will they change the landscape for smokers and prohibitionists?
Another significant court loss for the Food & Drug Administration's arbitrary approach to regulating vaping products.
Today’s nicotine prohibitionists may do well to take a few moments to contemplate their anti-alcohol predecessors.
Policies inspired by that exaggerated threat continue to undermine the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
A study found a "high rate of substitution" between vapes and cigarettes, suggesting that policies aimed at preventing underage use are undermining public health.
Providing accurate information about the risks of different nicotine products is long overdue.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit takes issue with how the FDA evaluated Fontem's unflavored vaping products.
Since the FDA began regulating vaping products as "tobacco" products, American ignorance about vaping's realtive risks has gotten worse.
Kathy Hochul isn't just waging a war on menthols. She's also floating a ban on all cigarette sales in the state.
Even the best studies haven't surmounted a key statistical issue, and they tend to distort the evidence to make e-cigarettes look dangerous.
The appeals court says regulators violated the Administrative Procedure Act when they tried to pull menthol vapes off the market.
Thanks to tendentiously sloppy research, most Americans think vaping is just as dangerous as smoking. That’s not true.
And now the state thinks it needs to crack down even more.
It is hard to find evidence of this "disturbing trend."
To reduce cancer deaths, Biden should stop restricting safer nicotine alternatives.
The obvious problems with the article reflect a broader pattern that suggests a peer review bias against e-cigarettes.
The agency is determined to ban the flavors that former smokers overwhelmingly prefer. For the children.
The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.
You can smoke all the pot you want, but flavored tobacco or nicotine is soon to be illegal.
By making e-cigarettes less appealing, it will discourage smokers from switching to a much less hazardous nicotine habit.
People with money on the line try harder than pundits to be right, and they adjust quickly when they've made a mistake.
Bring on the black market.
Voters have shown a propensity to veto the meddlesome efforts of lawmakers in the past.
The CDC is still citing underage consumption as a reason to restrict adult access.
The FDA's nicotine restrictions will push consumers toward black-market suppliers, who are completely unconstrained by the FDA’s regulations.
Don’t expect a change in course, despite the long-awaited admission.
The "epidemic" of adolescent vaping seems to be fading fast, and vaping is replacing smoking among adults, a harm-reducing trend that regulators seem determined to discourage.
The likelihood that the Supreme Court considers the FDA's treatment of vaping products is increasing.
Something is wrong at the Food & Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products, and federal courts are beginning to notice.
The agency’s policies would boost the black market and smoking-related deaths.
Bureaucrats say they want to save lives. But they're moving to block a tool that is proven to help smokers quit entirely.
The principle has implications that go far beyond abortion. Some of them deserve far more attention than they have gotten to this point.
In a move that is likely to undermine public health, the agency warns that products containing synthetic nicotine "will be subject to FDA enforcement."
The agency's obsession with adolescent vaping is driving decisions that undermine public health.
It’s likely to happen any day now.
The agency ignores downward trends in both kinds of nicotine use and obscures the huge difference in the hazards they pose.
A spending bill provision would redefine "tobacco products" to include products that have nothing to do with tobacco.
The findings reinforce the case for nicotine vaping products as a harm-reducing alternative to cigarettes.
The justices show little interest in vaping regulation on the shadow docket, but may yet review the FDA's behavior in the regular course.
The perverse provision would have discouraged smokers from switching to a far less hazardous source of nicotine.
Vaping regulation gets some attention on the Shadow Docket
An electronic cigarette manufacturer seeks a stay of FDA action from the Supreme Court.
Whatever else the BBB bill will do, this provision is bad for public health and could increase smoking's death toll.
