Prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes with flavors in another US city | Chronic

The sale of electronic cigarettes with flavors has been banned in the American city of Chicago "before the growing threat of death that studies have brought about the habit known as vaping ".

Lori Lightfoot, The Mayor of Chicago has asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take immediate action to ban e-cigarettes.

In the United States, at least six people have died and hundreds have suffered lung complications related to the increasing use of electronic cigarettes promoted to artificial flavors, the EFE agency announced.

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Lightfoot announced that it would submit by Wednesday the order banning the sale of electronic cigarettes with flavors, which it says will attract younger consumers.

"Our main goal here is that we want to do a lot more in terms of raising public awareness and attacking this idea that it is a safe alternative to smoking," he said.

For his part, Senator Dick Durbin demanded from the FDA? Prompt action? and stated that "one in five high school students in the state uses electronic cigarettes".

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Durbin has asked the FDA to take action over the next thirty days to limit the 380 cases of people hospitalized in the country with the symptoms of vaping.

Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, chest pain, tremors, cough, and severe breathing difficulties.

It is estimated that about five million young people in the country practice vaping, which exposes many of them to a disease whose causes are not yet clear.

Already several cities like Waukegan (Illinois) and states like Michigan, California and Mbadachusetts have banned or are planning to ban electronic flavored cigarettes.

A study published by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine indicates that electronic cigarettes contain a chemical compound that can cause cancer and have been banned as a food additive.

The ingredient, called pulegona, "is present in peppermint oil extracts and in its varieties such as peppermint and peppermint," said researcher Sairam Jabba of the Department of Agriculture. Anesthesiology of the Duke School of Medicine in North Carolina.