Some good news for the vaping industry late Monday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given manufacturers of electronic cigarette equipment a three-month reprieve from registering their products.

The June 30 date has now been pushed back three months, “and hopefully more is to come,” said Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association.

E-cigarette manufacturers have said the process of registration and approval would shut them down.


Other deadlines under the FDA’s rule deeming e-cigarette devices and liquids to be tobacco products are also delayed three months, but the registration deadline was the closest.

The vaping industry has expressed hope that the new administration of Donald Trump would be more sympathetic to vaping than that of former president Barack Obama. Trump’s pick for the new FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, has not yet been confirmed, but that is considered imminent.

Conley forwarded an FDA email announcing the delay.

“This extension will allow new leadership at the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services additional time to more fully consider issues raised by the final rule that are now the subject of multiple lawsuits in federal court,” stated Lindsay R. Tobias, an FDA policy analyst.


Earlier today, the vaping industry suffered a defeat in Congress.

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