E-Cigarette Retailers Braced For Another Blow As Tighter Federal Regulations Go Into Effect
Retailers who were already adjusting to the state's new laws surrounding e-cigarettes were hit with more limitations on Monday. “We’re having a hard time meeting our bills,” says one. “I can’t restock product.”
LA Daily News:
Tough New Vaping Rules Are Suffocating E-Cig Retailers
New federal regulations kicked in Monday for electronic cigarettes and some tobacco-related products, giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration greater control over what can be sold and limiting the way retailers interact with customers. ... All products that use a device in which a flavored liquid is heated into vaporized so it can be inhaled must now earn government approval. Also, merchants can no longer give free samples to customers, must ask customers for age-verifying identification and cannot claim that their products help smokers quit tobacco, store owners say. (Wilcox, 8/8)