FDA to hold e-cig meeting

The US Food and Drug Administration is planning to hold a ‘public hearing’ on December 5 because it believes that a rising number of young people are becoming addicted to vaping.
A note issued through the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products said that, on November 2, the FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, M.D., had issued a statement on the agency’s ‘concern with rising numbers of youth becoming addicted to e-cigarettes and the current lack of adequate research or approved treatments to help kids quit using e-cigarettes or other tobacco products’.
‘To help address these issues, the agency will hold a public hearing at the FDA White Oak Campus on December 5 to hear public perspectives on the available scientific evidence related to drug therapies for e-cigarette cessation as it relates to youth users and how the FDA may support further research in this area’.
‘Individuals interested in presenting at the hearing must register by November 23, 2018. Those interested in attending the hearing in person or watching the free, live webcast must register by December 3, 2018.
‘Regardless of attendance at the public hearing, interested parties may also submit a public comment to docket FDA-2018-N-3952 starting Monday, November 5, 2018, through January 2, 2019.
‘Further information, including instructions for presenters, is included in the Federal Register notice.’