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Efforts to limit electronic cigarette tastes preferred by teenagers might have failed as brand-new brand names struck the marketplace, according to a brand-new report.
Fruit, sweet, spice and dessert-flavored e-cigarettes that have actually long been popular amongst minor cigarette smokers have actually multiplied in the last few years, according to information examined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC Foundation and the Truth Initiative.
Flavored e-cigarettes represented 41.3% of U.S. retail-store e-cigarette system sales in December 2022, up from 29.2% in January 2020, the companies discovered. Overall e-cigarette sales in the U.S. increased about 47% throughout the duration.
The spike in sales comes in spite of a federal crackdown that put more limitations on the tastes and marketing for tobacco items.
“The dramatic spikes in youth e-cigarette use back in 2017 and 2018, primarily driven by JUUL, showed us how quickly e-cigarette sales and use patterns can change,” stated Deirdre Lawrence Kittner, director of the CDC’s Office on Smoking andHealth “Retail sales data are key to providing real-time information on the rapidly changing e-cigarette landscape, which is essential to reducing youth tobacco use.”
Citing the appeal of flavored e-cigarettes to kids, the FDA revealed in January 2020 that it would restrict sales of sweet and fruit-flavored e-cigarette pre-filled pods, which resulted in the death of huge brand names such as Juul and Vuse.
Between January 2020 and December 2022, system shares of pre-filled cartridges reduced from 75.2% to 48.0%.
However, the taste constraints didn’t impact non reusable cigarettes, which at the end of 2019 just represented 15% of e-cigarette system sales in U.S. stores, according to the information. Between January 2022 and December 2022, non reusable e-cigarette system shares increased from 24.7% to 51.8% of overall system sales.
They now represent majority the U.S. e-cigarette market.
Nicotine is extremely addicting and can hurt the teen brain, which continues to establish through around age 25, according to the CDC. Moreover, the company discovered that many popular brand names of non reusable e-cigarettes on the marketplace– Puff Bar, Elf Bar and Breeze Smoke– aren’t FDA-approved and are prohibited. The FDA has actually just licensed non reusable electronic cigarette brand name NJOY Daily, which can be found in 2 tobacco tastes.
Last year, the FDA bought Elf Bar and Breeze Smoke off the U.S. market, according to the CDC report.
“The tobacco industry is well aware that flavors appeal to and attract kids, and that young people are uniquely vulnerable to nicotine addiction,” stated Robin Koval, CEO and president of the TruthInitiative “While we are motivated by [the] FDA’s current actions to suppress illegal marketing of flavored e-cigarettes, all of us need to deal with even higher seriousness to safeguard our country’s youth from all flavored e-cigarettes, consisting of disposables.”
