Michael Siegel of Boston University called the FDA’s final deeming regulations “a disaster for public health.”
According to him, the legislation should be called “The cigarette smoking promotion regulations of 2016,” because it regulates e-cigarettess much more stringently than it does combustible cigarettes.
The rule, he said, essentially decimates the vaping industry, stifles innovation, and prevent the “much safer products from competing with cigarettes.”