By DAVID KESMODEL And DANNY YADRON
Wall Street Journal
ELMHURST, Ill.—Victoria Vasconcellos, the petite founder of an Internet retailer in this Chicago suburb, is in the thick of a regulatory battle that could affect millions of American cigarette smokers.
Ms. Vasconcellos imports electronic cigarettes from a Chinese manufacturer and sells them on her website, Cignot.com, to 14,000 customers. The 48-year-old is part of a growing legion of e-cigarette purveyors who are defying the Food and Drug Administration, which contends the nascent nicotine products are drug devices that require pre-market approval and may pose their own health risks.
Casual reading for the intellectually curious.
I hope the debate about electronic cigarettes health risks will soon come to an end. If many people are buying this product and until now no one is complaining about it then let them sell it.
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