>The FDA warns that more research needs to be done on the health risks of inhaling liquid nicotine. > "The FDA has said that it plans to assert regulatory auth

>The FDA warns that more research needs to be done on the health risks of inhaling liquid nicotine. > "The FDA has said that it plans to assert regulatory authority over electronic cigarettes. And that could lead to them being regulated in the same way as cigarettes as far as marketing is concerned," Felberbaum says. This is odd. For one, we know the health risks of nicotine patches, and we know the health risks of the alternative to e-cigarettes, which carries very large known risks. For that reason alone we should celebrate these little devices. Further, what the hell is the FDA doing? I thought this would be for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Edit, some dates: Since 2009 the FDA has had the authority to explicitly regulate tobacco too, not just nicotine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_tobacco_by_the_U.S._Food_and_Drug_Administration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_tobacco_by_the_U.... Since 1998 the FDA has been allowed to regulate cigarettes as nicotine delivery devices: http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8846773/Szubin.html?sequence=2 http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8846773/Szubin.ht...