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A patron exhales vapor from an e-cigarette at a store in New York. Commenting that "people should not be using vaping products, period," (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Juul probed as vaping lung illness deaths increase

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 20, 2018, file photo, Juul products are displayed at a smoke shop in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Juul warned over claims its e-cigarette safer than smoking

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

FILE - This June 15, 2001, file photo shows Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of the Amsterdam-based Women On Waves Foundation, in Dublin, Ireland. The Austrian doctor who prescribes abortion drugs to patients around the world is suing the United States for allegedly blocking her American patients from getting abortions by seizing their prescriptions. She filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Idaho on Monday, Sept. 9. 2019. (AP Photo/Charlie Collins, File)

Austrian doctor sues US for seizing patients’ abortion drugs

By REBECCA BOONE - Associated Press

FILE — In this Tuesday, April 10, 2018 photo, a high school principal displays vaping devices that were confiscated from students at the school in Massachusetts. On Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, the Vapor Technology Association filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to delay a review of electronic cigarettes. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

FDA regulations on e-cigarettes an exercise in crony capitalism

By Matt Mackowiak

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, test cigarettes burn in a smoking machine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. A decade after President Barack Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law in 2009, health advocates say the Food and Drug Administration has yet to put in place the most sweeping changes envisioned by Congress. (AP Photo/Branden Camp)

Anti-smoking advocates bemoan “faltering” pace of FDA action

By MATTHEW PERRONE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2008 file photo, a woman rides a bicycle past Changzhou SPL in Changzhou, China. The FDA did not open its first permanent offices in China and India until 2008 and 2009, respectively. That followed dozens of deaths and hundreds of allergic reactions in the U.S. linked to the contaminated blood thinner heparin made at this Chinese facility. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

US agency sees low risk in contaminated blood pressure drugs

By MATTHEW PERRONE - Associated Press

This undated image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows proposed graphic warnings that would appear on cigarettes. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, proposed 13 new large, graphic warnings that would appear on all cigarettes, including images of cancerous tumors, diseased lungs and bloody urine. (FDA via AP)

US makes new push for graphic warning labels on cigarettes

By MATTHEW PERRONE - Associated Press

This image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019 shows proposed cigarette warning labels. On Thursday, the agency announced a new attempt to place graphic warnings on all cigarettes to discourage Americans from smoking. The new effort comes more than seven years after a previous proposal was defeated in court. (FDA via AP)

FDA proposes new health warnings on cigarette packages, includes photo-realistic color images

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this April 16, 2019, photo, a woman exhales while vaping from a Juul pen e-cigarette in Vancouver, Wash. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer) **FILE**

Vaping industry suing FDA over ‘unreasonable and arbitrary’ premarket tobacco application process

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 10, 2018 photo, a high school principal displays vaping devices that were confiscated from students at the school in Massachusetts. On Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, the Vapor Technology Association filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to delay a review of electronic cigarettes. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Vaping companies sue to delay US review of e-cigarettes

By MATTHEW PERRONE - Associated Press

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday began accepting comments on adding 19 toxicants to an established list of harmful ingredients found in tobacco products. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

FDA seeks public input on 19 chemicals found in e-cigarettes

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, July 10, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks about kidney health, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, in Washington. Azar says he and Trump are working on a plan to allow Americans to import lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Donald Trump opens door to drug imports from Canada

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2017 file photo, a syringe with a dose of CBD oil is shown in a research laboratory in Fort Collins, Colo. CBD is a compound found in marijuana but doesn’t cause a high. On Tuesday, July 23, 2019, the Food and Drug Administration announced it has warned Curaleaf Inc., of Wakefield, Mass., for illegally selling unapproved CBD products. The agency says Curaleaf’s claims could lead people to delay medical care for serious conditions like cancer. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

FDA warns top marijuana company for making CBD health claims

By CARLA K. JOHNSON - Associated Press

In this Aug. 17, 2018, file photo, Christine Gagnon, of Southington, Conn., holds a sign during a protest with others who have lost loved ones to OxyContin and opioid overdoses, outside the Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, Conn. Gagnon lost her son Michael 13 months earlier. Nearly ten years ago, the blockbuster painkiller OxyContin was reformulated to discourage abuse by snorting and injecting, but it's unclear whether the harder-to-abuse format has decreased cases of addiction, overdose and death. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Revamped OxyContin was supposed to reduce abuse, but has it?

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

Discount Drugs Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

When it comes to discount drugs, buyer beware

By Gary D. Alexander

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2018, file photo, a man displays his Juul electronic cigarette while shopping at a convenience store in Hoboken, N.J. U.S. health officials are scrambling to keep e-cigarettes away from teenagers amid an epidemic of underage use. But doctors face a new dilemma: there are few effective options for weening young people off nicotine vaping devices like Juul. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

FDA ready to speed up its review of e-cigarettes, tobacco-related products

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

FDA warns consumers, company about Kratom products

Associated Press

Web of Red Tape Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

How the FDA attempts to force itself on the crucial work of medical practitioners

By Kristin Comella

E-cigarettes are not considered as risky as regular cigarettes, but youth advocacy groups are worried about the dramatic rise in use among middle and high school students. (Associated Press/File)

FDA seeks time as youths swarm e-cigarette market

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

This Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FDA food sampling finds contamination by ‘forever chemicals’

By Ellen Knickmeyer, John Flesher and Michael Casey - Associated Press