By james art 
The Expo of Alternative Products in Miami begins next week, April 3-5. The label of it Website He says everything: “Where do they buy shops for vapi, smoking and heads!”
Although there are some legitimate products on the market regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which serve as an less harmful alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes, Expo is mostly distinguished by unregulated and illegal products from Chinese manufacturers. They are collected on these exposures – which are also held elsewhere throughout the country – to reduce transactions and strategize how to oppose federal regulation.
Hialeah Rep. Alex Rizowho was the chairman of GOP in Miami-Dad last year when the exhibition was in Miami, said in a statement By the time you have to call the “cheeky challenge of the Federal Law” of the Expo and the company of the company, and the products with projects for entering children and scents must be cleared from the Florida Market.
He pointed to fruit scents such as “rainbow candy”.
“Manufacturers who are placed on”Redlist“And are subject to FDA import restrictions, openly marketing their illegal products in Florida and mocking the unsuccessful implementation of our federal government,” Rizo said last year.
Tobacco Insiders’ estimates that 60% of the US Vape market is already dominated by illegal Vapes. Other estimates put this number up to 90%, According to an option in the Constitution of the magazine in AtlantaS
Expo emphasizes the lack of implementation to break up on the illegal market of the Vapets, as these participants act in a clear opposition to both the federal and state laws – right in the backyard of legislators who only adopted a measure (HB 1007) to ensure that VAPE manufacturers are required to register in the state and to certify that their products are in accordance with both the federal and the state law.
The problem is widespread in Florida, The highest condition in the nation For illegal Vape sales.
And although illegal Vapes can be harmful to people of all ages, critics are most concerned about children. Laws, including in Florida, regulate the aromas and type of packaging for legitimate VAPE sales. The laws are designed to maintain fruit, candy -like scents and colorful, sometimes cartoon packaging that would like children outside the shelves of stores.
But it doesn’t work. Chinese manufacturers are flooding the market with unregulated e -cigarettes designed to attract young people through these funds. This includes Florida -based Safa goods that was recently covered in a New York Times report For VAPE illegal sales relations, they have been subject to bilateral repression ever since.
Potentially worse is that many of the products are deliberately designed to attract minors from imitation of electronics as smartphones or games for games.
While youthful smoking of traditional cigarettes have refusal Until all times low (1.4%), minor consumption of illegal e -cigarettes has increased since 2020, According to the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionS
Meanwhile the illegal Chinese industry is upward His China -funded lobbying campaign to try to influence the president and form federal and state laws.
As this exhibition unfolds, it is more important than ever to remain vigilant and to require long -term action to destroy those illegal producers who deal with teens and endanger their health.
One way to continue to make progress is to guarantee a more festive, legal route is accessible to companies that do business the right way.
According to the Federal Law, the Tobacco Product Center is obliged to review new applications for tobacco products in previous markets for smoke -free alternatives, such as nicotine bags and e -cigarettes within 180 days of receiving them. However, Philip Morris International (PMI) claims that the agency took three years, in some cases, to decide on such products.
Delay, hard PMI, leads to unregulated products From foreign manufacturers, they flood the shelves of retailers.
PMI has A whole line of electronic hazard productsIncluding its Veev line and heated tobacco, IQOS line. PMI also offers its ZYN smokeless products on the market, all of which are advertised as less harmful than traditional cigarettes.
Other manufacturers hope to come to the market with regulated, legal products. And the efforts of this legislative session to stimulate more festive alternatives to smoking are impaired, including through effort this year to reclassify heated tobacco products to eliminate a certain taxation.
Let’s support the good actors and stop dating the bad ones.