New FDA Guidelines to Include Hookah and Cigars

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – By now, we’ve heard all about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new e-cigarette guidelines, but did you know other tobacco products are included as well?

In 90 days, it will be illegal to sell e-cigarettes, hookah tobacco or cigars to anyone under the age of 18.

“Great progress in reducing the amount of kids that smoke cigarettes,” says FDA’s Mitch Zeller. “Here’s the problem…every single day in the United States, more teenage boys light up a cigar for the first time, then light up a cigarette for the first time. So, we have extraordinarily high use of cigars by kids.”

In addition, Zeller says a lot of kids are using hookah tobacco at parties, thinking it’s safer than cigarettes. he says a typical 45-minute hookah session can expose a user to extraordinarily high levels of carbon monoxide and nicotine.

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