The press release goes on to describe the growing e-cigarette concerned echoed by the FDA in recent months, providing facts and figures such as “only 3 percent of adults are using e-cigarettes whereas 12 percent of kids are using them” and “e-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco product among youth.” When speaking about cigars, the press release lumps them into the same category as e-cigarettes, claiming, “. This popularity is being driven in part by kid-friendly e-cigarette and cigar flavors such as cake batter, whipped cream, and gummy bear. Yet, while there are flavor restrictions for cigarettes, thousands of kid-friendly flavors of e-cigarettes and cigars proliferate on the market.”
As many premium cigar manufacturers and advocates have noted in the past, an issue presented with a vast majority of the anti-tobacco legislation is that there’s often no distinguishing between a premium cigar–which is not typically made with kid-friendly flavors–and a mass-market blunt product. This legislation does, however, continue the push against e-cigarettes being marketed as kid-friendly, something the FDA itself has attempted to crackdown on in recent months [read more here].
Senators Durbin and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) will introduce the SAFE Kids Act this month. You can read the full press-release about this proposed legislation by clicking here.
 introduces the SAFE Kids Act which would restrict the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and ban flavored cigars in a year.){kind=link}