Krishnamoorthi Applauds Supreme Court Ruling Upholding Ban On Fruit Flavored E Cigarettes, Calls On FDA To Enforce The Ban To Prevent Youth Nicotine Addiction

WASHINGTON - Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), Ranking Member of the Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services as well as the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and Chinese Communist Party, issued the following statement today in response to the Supreme Court's unanimous decisionto uphold the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) rejection of fruit- and dessert-flavored e-cigarette liquids:

"Today's unanimous Supreme Court decision is a major victory for public health and a strong rebuke of vape manufacturers who have deliberately targeted our youth with addictive fruit-flavored products. For years, I have fought Big Tobacco's efforts to hook more kids, and now the FDA must enforce this ban and get these dangerous products off store shelves. We cannot allow e-cigarette companies to use illegal flavored vapes to prey upon our children."

Congressman Krishnamoorthi has been a leading voice in the fight to end youth vaping, co-founding the bipartisan Congressional Caucus to End the Youth Vaping Epidemic and spearheading legislation to regulate flavored e-cigarettes. As Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, Congressman Krishnamoorthi launched the first Congressional investigationinto the youth vaping epidemic in 2019, spearheading subsequent legislation to crack down on e-cigarette makers and to close the synthetic nicotine loophole. In December, Congressman Krishnamoorthi, through his role as Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), announced a new investigationinto illicit vaping products from China with advertising targeted at children.