1. Summary
After reading the article choices, I was immediately drawn to the article “New Federal E-Cigarette Rules Have Heavy Impact in Only 2 States” (McCullough, 2016) The article’s focus is on the new federal rules to ban sales to minors and impose stricter safety reviews for the products. The article mostly focuses on the state of Pennsylvania and Michigan because there are no age limit laws for e-cigarette sales. (2016) Additionally, according to McCullough (2016) there are activist in the vaping industry who fear the new safety regulations will hurt public health in the long run and kill jobs. Activist claim that e-cigarettes are a safer choice. However, Mcullough, (2016) found “E-cigarettes have not been extensively studied.” Another important tidbit the articles talks about is the increase e-cigarette use among teenagers. (McCullough 2016)
2. Application …show more content…
Before the rules became federal, it was up to the states and local governments to impose their own regulations on e-cigarettes. However, some states were more lenient than others. The federal government made the decision to regulate e-cigarettes because state powers/ reserved powers were not being used to secure public health and safety within the e-cigarette trade. As a result, all states will have age and safety regulations on a product that has been lax with public safety. Although some vaping advocates will argue, that public safety is now being abused by the federal government for fear that, stricter regulations will ultimately shut down the vaping industry and push people to continue to smoke more harmful tobacco
After reading the article choices, I was immediately drawn to the article “New Federal E-Cigarette Rules Have Heavy Impact in Only 2 States” (McCullough, 2016) The article’s focus is on the new federal rules to ban sales to minors and impose stricter safety reviews for the products. The article mostly focuses on the state of Pennsylvania and Michigan because there are no age limit laws for e-cigarette sales. (2016) Additionally, according to McCullough (2016) there are activist in the vaping industry who fear the new safety regulations will hurt public health in the long run and kill jobs. Activist claim that e-cigarettes are a safer choice. However, Mcullough, (2016) found “E-cigarettes have not been extensively studied.” Another important tidbit the articles talks about is the increase e-cigarette use among teenagers. (McCullough 2016)
2. Application …show more content…
Before the rules became federal, it was up to the states and local governments to impose their own regulations on e-cigarettes. However, some states were more lenient than others. The federal government made the decision to regulate e-cigarettes because state powers/ reserved powers were not being used to secure public health and safety within the e-cigarette trade. As a result, all states will have age and safety regulations on a product that has been lax with public safety. Although some vaping advocates will argue, that public safety is now being abused by the federal government for fear that, stricter regulations will ultimately shut down the vaping industry and push people to continue to smoke more harmful tobacco