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THE U.S. Food and Drug Ad- ministration lacks the authority to regulate electronic cigarettes as drugs or devices, an appeals court has ruled, upholding a lower court decision. Accord- ing to a report from Bloomberg. com, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington says the FDA can only regulate e-cigarettes as a tobacco product. The rul- ing means the government can oversee the marketing of the products, not restrict their sale. E-cigarette maker, Sottera Inc., which does business as Njoy, argued in the case that its products, battery powered


devices that generate a nicotine vapor instead of smoke, are to- bacco products and not drugs. E-cigarettes are marketed as a tobacco alternative for “smok- ing pleasure,” rather than for therapeutic uses, the company says. “We’re thrilled,” Craig Weiss, president of Scotts- dale, AZ based Njoy, said in an interview with Bloomberg. “Now we can continue to sell e-cigarettes under the regula- tions of the Tobacco Act.” Yet in a later development,


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the FDA fi led a petition to ask the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Co- lumbia Circuit to hold a new hearing and review its appeal, according to The Wall Street Journal. At issue is how the FDA should regulate a nascent industry whose products have caught on with thousands of smokers who are seeking an alternative to their daily habit, said the report. E-cigarettes are battery powered tubes that turn nicotine fi lled liquid into a vapor mist. The appellate panel ruled that e-cigarettes should be regulated as tobacco products by the FDA, unless marketers make specifi c claims that the devices help smokers quit or provide other remedies, CSP Daily reports. The agency contends that e-cigarettes are drug or medical devices that require preapproval from the


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