US lawmaker faults FDA chief for lax oversight of teen vaping. 'Big, big whopping mistake'

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Rep. Nita Lowey blamed Gottlieb's decision to delay a regulation that would have taken e-cigarettes off the market at least temporarily in the summer of 2016 for fueling what public health officials have now labeled an epidemic.

U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey criticized Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb for delaying a regulation that would have temporarily removed electronic cigarettes from the market in 2016, saying it helped fueled an epidemic in teen use and calling it a"big, big whopping mistake."

About one-fifth of high school seniors said they vaped last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual National Youth Tobacco Survey.

 

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