VAPING REGULATION THREATENS A LIFESAVING SMOKING ALTERNATIVE

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES, WHICH deliver nicotine without tobacco or combustion, are the most important harm-reducing alternative to smoking ever developed, one that could prevent millions of premature deaths in the U.S. alone. Yet bureaucrats and politicians seem determined to negate that historic opportunity through regulations and taxes that threaten to cripple the industry.

In October, seven years after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially declared its intention to regulate “electronic nicotine delivery