The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared that it plans to consider electronic cigarettes as regular tobacco products and won’t attempt to regulate them under stricter rules for drug-delivery products. The federal agency stated recently that it aims to propose rule changes to consider e-cigarettes the same as regular cigarettes and other tobacco products.

E-cigarettes are metal or plastic devices that heat liquid nicotine in a cartridge, thus producing vapor that the smoker inhales. A little tip even lights like a real cigarettes.

Consumers and sellers state that e-cigarettes address both the nicotine addiction and the behavioral aspects of cigarette smoking, as holding, puffing, the smoke coming out and the hand motion – without a great number of chemicals found in cigarettes.

Launching for the first time in 2002, e-cigarettes didn’t available in the U.S. until 2006. At present this industry has developed and continues to increase the number of users from thousands in 2006 to several million worldwide. There has not been established a timeline for the proposed rule changes. The FDA declared that e-cigarettes could still be considered as drugs or devise that delivers drugs if they are promoted for therapeutic purposes.

David Healy, representative of the Blu Cigs company, f-cigarettes makers welcomed the decision. One the FDA’s rules related to e-cigarettes will take effect; they will try to eradicate suspicious companies.

Several e-cigarette makers have declared that their products will help smokers stop smoking regular cigarettes, while others avoided this issue. Approximately 46 million Americans smoke cigarettes, about 40% are trying to quit annually, according to data presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But as distinct from nicotine patches or gums, e0cigs have operated in a legal gray area.

Last year the FDA lost a court case after trying to consider e-cigarettes as drug-delivery devices, rather than regular tobacco products. United States court of Appeals declared that electronic cigarettes should be considered as traditional tobacco products rather than as drug-delivery devices, which should meet more strict requirements as expensive clinical researches to demonstrate that they are safe and efficient. At the same time, the agency send warning letters to various producers of e-cigarettes and their components, stating that they infringe the law with such manufacturing practices.

The FDA declared that its researchers discovered that the liquid in various e-cigarettes possessed harmful toxins besides nicotine, and as well other carcinogens that occur naturally in tobacco. Certain health experts declared that the level of those carcinogens was commensurable to those detected in nicotine replacement therapy, because as it is known the nicotine contained in all of the products is obtained from tobacco.

By Clark Moore, Staff Writer Copyright © 2011 Hot-Cigs.com All rights reserved.