It fined 12 e-cigarette manufacturers more than $19,000 each, and has issued more than 1,500 warning letters to manufacturers
In addition to these regulatory interventions the emergence of nicotine vaping products around 2012, essentially a disruptive technology with welcome, if largely accidental, health benefits helped accelerate the fall in smoking since that time as growing numbers of smokers switch, or younger people adopt vaping instead of smoking
News articles more frequently discussed potential e-cigarette risks or concerns (80%) than benefits (45.4%), such as smoking harm-reduction, the authors write
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The funding from the settlement was intended to be allocated to lifesaving tobacco prevention efforts in states, not just when the agreement was signed, but through annual payments by the tobacco companies to the states for as long as they continue to sell cigarettes due to the death and disease their products cause
