New Legislation Aims to Cap
Nicotine Levels in E-Cigarettes.
The bill would limit nicotine
content to no more than
20 milligrams per milliliter.
Popular e-cigarette Juul contains
several times that amount, with its
5% pods containing about 59mg/ml.
The change is intended to prevent addiction among youth,
which has become a widespread issue in the United States.
The US Food and Drug Administration
revealed that 27.5% of high schoolers
used e-cigarettes, up from 11.7% in 2017.
Capping the concentration of nicotine in e-cigarettes is integral to ending the youth vaping epidemic by making these products less addictive, less appealing to youth, and less harmful to public health, US Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi
