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2016年5月6日金曜日

電子タバコに規制の網 ー Wild West

当ブログでも何度か取り上げてきましたが、電子タバコ(e-cigarette)に遂に規制がかかることになりました。

アメリカの食品医薬品局(FDA)は今年8月から全ての電子タバコ販売業者に対する規制を施行することを発表したというニュースです。


E-cigarettes could turn out to be either a savior that helps addicted smokers quit or a lure that hooks a whole new generation on nicotine.

While science tries to decode those conflicting signals, the federal government took the responsible step Thursday to regulate electronic cigarettes in a way that tries to head off the worst outcome while still allowing potential benefits of vaping to emerge.

The new regulations, to go into effect in August, would ban sales to minors, require warning labels, ban the distribution of free samples and, most important, require makers of e-cigarettes that hit the market after Feb. 15, 2007, to go through a government approval process. Most e-cigarettes — whether made by tobacco giants or mom-and-pop stores — will fall under the stricture, giving the Food and Drug Administration authority to look at everything from ingredients to health risks.

Until now, e-cigarettes — battery-operated inhalers that contain nicotine, the powerfully addictive substance in cigarettes — have been marketed, as an FDA official noted Thursday, in a "wild, wild West" environment where anything goes.
(FDA takes e-cigs out of 'wild West': Our view. USA Today. May 5, 2016.)


規制の内容は、


未成年者には販売しない、
試供品への警告表示を義務付ける、
販売業者は規制当局の審査を受ける、


といったもののようですが、ある意味当たり前の事が今回義務化されたという印象でないでしょうか?

これまで如何に「野放し状態」であったかが分かろうというものです。

FDAが重い腰を上げたのも、電子タバコにまつわる


wild West


な状況を何とかせねば、という思いからだったのでしょう。

"wild West"とは、


the western United States in its frontier period characterized by roughness and lawlessness
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)


ということですが、要は規制も何も無い「無法地帯」という意味ですね。


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