EXPLAINER: US vape ruling confirms health risks of e-cigarettes

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By upholding the FDA ban, the US Supreme Court legally validates mounting scientific evidence against vaping's health dangers

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Last week, the US Supreme Court court upheld the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) rejection of applications from two manufacturers of flavored e-cigarette liquids. This decision backed the FDA's directive banning retailers from marketing flavored tobacco products, underscoring escalating worries about the health dangers posed by e-cigarettes.


The court's ruling Earlier the vaping companies Triton Distribution and Vapetasia applied to the FDA for permission to market flavored e-cigarette liquids, citing risks to youth. The companies appealed against the rejection to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 2021.

But this court soon ruled that the FDA had acted "arbitrarily and capriciously," violating the Administrative Procedure Act. "Over several years, the Food and Drug Administration sent manufacturers of flavored e-cigarette products on a wild goose chase," the Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew S. Oldham wrote in the verdict.


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