Lawmakers, Health Orgs Blast FDA For Authorizing Vuse ENDS Products

FDA on Tuesday (Oct. 12) authorized the first electronic nicotine delivery system products -- R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company’s Vuse Solo products -- to be legally marketed in the United States under the agency’s premarket tobacco products application pathway, drawing protests from lawmakers and public health groups who say FDA missed an opportunity to address the youth vaping epidemic and “turned its back on the public health.” FDA determined the Vuse Solo products’ benefits in helping adults switch from combustible cigarettes...