--- title: Electronic Cigarette Executives Are Happy About FDA Regulations description: E-cigarette makers have hailed the Food and Drug Administration's proposed regulations for new tobacco products—including electronic cigarettes, pipe tobacco and hookah, among others—as fair and moderate and a sign of a business-friendly approach canonical: https://time.com/76275/e-cig-execs-are-actually-thrilled-with-new-fda-regulations/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-24T21:16:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:01:23.665Z article:section: Health og:title: Electronic Cigarette Executives Are Happy About FDA Regulations og:description: E-cigarette makers have hailed the Food and Drug Administration's proposed regulations for new tobacco products—including electronic cigarettes, pipe tobacco and hookah, among others—as fair and moderate and a sign of a business-friendly approach og:url: https://time.com/76275/e-cig-execs-are-actually-thrilled-with-new-fda-regulations/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef5c16b2bb29144e/69868c7f55a859a151a80878/e-cigarette1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1498 og:image:height: 843 og:image:alt: Customers at Henley Vaporium in New York, Dec. 2013. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Electronic Cigarette Executives Are Happy About FDA Regulations twitter:description: E-cigarette makers have hailed the Food and Drug Administration's proposed regulations for new tobacco products—including electronic cigarettes, pipe tobacco and hookah, among others—as fair and moderate and a sign of a business-friendly approach twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef5c16b2bb29144e/69868c7f55a859a151a80878/e-cigarette1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # E-Cig Execs Are Actually Thrilled With New FDA Regulations > Sponsored content. 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A look at the rise of the e-cigarette market and why it's so divisive for many._ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 24, 2014 9:16 PM UTC  Customers at Henley Vaporium in New York, Dec. 2013. Customers at Henley Vaporium in New York, Dec. 2013. Timothy Fadek—Redux by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 24, 2014 9:16 PM UTC “It’s a great day,” says Christian Berkey, CEO of Johnson Creek, a leading maker of electronic cigarette liquid based in Wisconsin. Berkey was referring to the FDA’s issuance Thursday of proposed federal regulation of electronic cigarettes, a nascent industry that has grown to nearly $2 billion a year in U.S. sales. The move [extended the FDA’s authority](http://http://time.com/75508/sketchy-things-we-dont-know-about-e-cigarettes/) to regulate new tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, pipe tobacco, and hookah, among others. The FDA will take comments from various stakeholders on the rules over the next 75 days, and it could be a year or more before the regulations take effect, but today’s proposed rules were a big step toward bringing the e-cig wild west under control. Currently, there are no federal rules governing e-cigarettes (though many states prohibit the sale to minors). “People worried the regulations would be unreasonable and onerous,” says Berkey. “What we are seeing is they are not.” Upon seeing the FDA’s proposed rules today, the businesses are cheering. They see the proposal as a signal that the agency plans to take a business-friendly approach. Craig Weiss, the President and CEO of NJOY, a popular e-cigarette maker, was even more ecstatic in a press statement: “By resisting calls to regulate ahead of – and indeed in opposition to – the science and data, today the FDA has brought NJOY a giant step closer to achieving its corporate mission of obsoleting cigarettes.” “I would say that there were certain people that went into this thinking the FDA would be a foe — an irrational, illogical opponent to these devices,” says Miguel Martin, president of Logic Premium Electronic cigarettes, another top e-cigarette manufacturer, “\[But\] they’ve hit the ball right down the middle of the fairway. It is early, I might change opinion,but the original set up on the process seems extremely fair.” The proposed regulations would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and in vending machines where minors are allowed, require labels that list the ingredients and warn of the addictive properties of nicotine, and require companies to register new products with the FDA with a rigorous application process before they can put them on the market. The FDA has not yet proposed to ban flavors, which some anti-smoking advocates say appeal to kids, nor have they banned internet sales or advertising of e-cigarettes. And the FDA has given electronic cigarette companies a two-year window after the regulations go into effect to keep their products on the market while they apply to register new products. Currently, it is illegal for e-cigarette companies to make health claims that their products are healthier than regular cigarettes or can help people quit—a question that needs more thanks to a court decision ruling in 2009\. But in today’s deeming regulations, the FDA opened a pathway for companies to make health claims by submitting supporting research to the FDA. “I suspect that many companies are going to take a run at that,” says Martin. The proposals are really just a starting point. Mitchell Zeller, the director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the FDA, called the proposed rules “foundational” today in a call with reporters, signaling that future regulations could ban or restrict things like internet sales, flavors, or advertising. And after the first two year grace period, e-cigarettes will still be subject to potentially long application processes for new products that might hurt business, say manufacturers. “It’s not time for a victory lap,” says Martin. “A lot can change.” ## Transcript >> I always work when I work. They go together. >> In the 1950's cigarette ads were all about being manly and about being in control. Eventually, the ads were banned because smoking is a health risk. Now, with the E- cigarettes the marketing is back wherever you go. It seems vaping is involved-- with some 7 million Europeans making a switch. It's called Vaping because the liquid nicotine, which is founded here vaporizes when you press this button. Now, even though there is no tar and no smoke, there are still nicotine, which is the addictive part. Yet, E- cigarette advocates say this is healthier, the one of these. >> Really not a problem. The research demonstrates that the side stream vapor is not an issue. There are no sort of carcinogens being carried around in that, certainly nothing on a [ unk ] with what we see with tobacco smoking and second- hand smoke. >> There's a new spin in an old habit is a marketing gold mine. The E- cigarette market is valued at $ 2 billion. With the United States accounted for a quarter over sales, then there is a potential for growth with the industry expected to outperform traditional tobacco within 10 years. While this is igniting worries that will pick up new addicts along the way, already we're seeing celebrities leading the craze. >> You're awfully good with that. >> The E- cigarettes are being presented as this new trending product. The later thing that people are trying in social environments they're referring to celebrities using them, so we're very concern that possibly by seeing all this exposure to E- cigarette marketing, the lines are being blurred. And that message that smoking kills will get lost. >> As the health debate burns in the background businesses are waiting for a verdict. 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