Sales of Drug-Spiked Nicotine Could Sink E-Cigarettes' Smoking Cessation Chances
Executive Summary
Since Commissioner Gottlieb's appointment, US FDA has challenged END industry more aggressively to eliminate products and advertising targeting children and has said sales to minors could be a focal point of an FDA action to ban all e-cigarette sales. Finding pharmaceutical ingredients in liquid nicotine could make a general ban on e-cigarette sales more likely in addition to imperiling approval for a smoking cessation indication.
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