Instead, the law created a huge bureaucracy full of red tape and sluggish approval processes such that there are still close to 3500 substantial equivalence applications stacked up in a pile somewhere, and the FDA is so overburdened that it cannot even issue electronic cigarette regulations in a reasonable amount of time.

"Smoking is the single greatest cause of preventable illness and early death in England and most of the Western world," it said.

While the deeming regulations pretend to acknowledge that there is "a continuum of nicotine-delivering products" in terms of their health risks, the truth is that the agency fails to acknowledge that the most hazardous product along that continuum - cigarettes - are any more hazardous than the least dangerous product (non-tobacco electronic cigarettes).

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