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The Vaping Crises in the United States: A Regulatory Failure?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2020

Lukasz GRUSZCZYNSKI  and
Margherita MELILLO
Lukasz GRUSZCZYNSKI
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Kozminski University (Poland); Research Fellow, CSS Institute for Legal Studies (Hungary); email: [email protected]
Margherita MELILLO
Affiliation:
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law (Luxembourg); PhD Candidate, European University Institute (Italy)
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 131 - 140
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5 For a more detailed introduction to the topic, see Gruszczynski, L, “Introduction: Regulating e-cigarettes in the Face of Uncertainty” in Gruszczynski, L (ed), The Regulation of E-cigarettes. International, European and National Challenges (Edward Elgar 2019) p 1CrossRefGoogle Scholar ff. A good historical analysis is available in M Zatoński and AM Brandt, “Divide and Conquer? E-cigarettes as a Disruptive Technology in the History of Tobacco Control”, in Gruszczynski, above, at p 24 ff.

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22 Art 20 of Directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Approximation of the Laws, Regulations and Administrative Provisions of the Member States Concerning the Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco and Related Products and Repealing Directive 2001/37/EC (3 April 2014), OJ L 127/1, 29 April 2014.

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26 This interpretation derives from a joint reading of Art 20 (on e-cigarettes) and Art 2(1)(16) (defining an e-cigarette as “a product that can be used for consumption of nicotine-containing vapour”) of the TPD.

27 Art 15 of the TPD establishes a “tracking and tracing” system, but limits it to tobacco products, thus excluding e-cigarettes.

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31 Art 20(3)(b) of the TPD provides that the “nicotine-containing liquid” cannot “contain nicotine in excess of 20 mg/ml”.

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