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 The agency has evaluated data and science on the risks, especially
to infants and children, from accidental exposure to nicotine and
liquid nicotine that is used in e-cigarettes.
(http://1.usa.gov/1GXeSo4)
More Americans are using e-cigarettes and other vaporizing devices
than a year ago, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed in June.
The surge in e-cigarette use comes as conventional cigarette smoking
has declined in the United States to about 19 percent of adults,
prompting tobacco companies such as Altria Group Inc, Philip Morris
International Inc and Reynolds American Inc to rush into the
e-cigarette market.
(Graphic on global market: http://link.reuters.com/kuk83w)
Recent increases in calls and visits to poison control centers and
emergency rooms involving liquid nicotine poisoning have raised
public health concerns, FDA said.
The health regulator is now considering if it should warn the public
about the dangers of nicotine exposure and require that some tobacco
products be sold in child-resistant packaging.
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Among high school students, e-cigarette use jumped to 13.4 percent
in 2014 from 4.5 percent in 2013, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Cigarette use over the same period
fell to 9.2 percent from 12.7 percent, the largest year-over-year
decline in more than a decade.
(Reporting By Samantha Kareen Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Don
Sebastian)
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