EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Tom Cotton wants FDA to fast-track American e-cigarettes amidst crackdown on illicit Chinese vapes

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Tom Cotton wants FDA to fast-track American e-cigarettes amidst crackdown on illicit Chinese vapes

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), one of the Senate’s leading opponents of the illicit flood of Chinese e-cigarettes into America, wants the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to both “further curb distribution of illicit Chinese e-cigarettes” while also “increas[ing] the number of regulated American products available in the U.S. market.”Cotton’s letter to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, obtained exclusively by the Washington Repor…

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