The maximum penalty for possessing or selling e-cigarettes is a HK$100,000 fine and two years' imprisonment. Hong Kong Department of Health bans electronic cigarettes.Health Canada advises Canadians not to purchase or use them, claiming they contain a 'known irritant' (propylene glycol).

Canada bans the sale, advertising and import of electronic cigarettes.

12-13 here.) (At this time FDA had gained authority over tobacco products, but this ruling came not from their nascent Center for Tobacco Products, but from their Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.) Customs and Border Protection to reject the entry of electronic cigarettes into the United States on the basis of them being unapproved drug delivery devices.

FDA adds electronic cigarettes to Import Alert 66-41 and directs the U.S.

ruling does not fully explain the disappearance of the technology elsewhere. This may explain the disappearance of the attempts to bring an e-cigarette to market, though the history of what happened is rather murky, and the U.S.

FDA denied the request on the basis of it being an unapproved drug delivery device. tobacco company requested permission from FDA (which did not then regulate tobacco products, but did regulate drug delivery devices) to bring a version of an e-cigarette to market c.1998. (See also Philip Morris's Accord.) Products closely resembling modern e-cigarettes moved toward commercialization in the 1990s ( example). A major U.S. Reynolds brought to market the Eclipse 'heat-not-burn' device, whose functioning falls somewhere in between that of a pure nicotine inhaler and a combusted cigarette. One chemical-reaction based system that was invented in the 1990s is still in the pipeline. Many relied on evaporation or physical propulsion, but a few were fairly similar to modern e-cigarettes. Numerous patents for nicotine inhaler devices were filed throughout the 20th century and early 2000s by both tobacco companies and individual inventors, with a flurry of activity in the 1990s.

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