Dr. Mandal got a significant fact wrong.  Where Dr. Mandal states, "In the United States the Food and Drugs administration (FDA) recently lost its appeal a few days ago where they urged the government to treat these e-cigarettes as tobacco products." What actually happened was that the Federal Appeals court ruled that the FDA did not have  jurisdiction under the Food, Drugs and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) over the e-cigarette products and thus could not seize shipments of these products to the e-cig company Sottera. Further the Appeals court upheld and concurred with a previous Federal court ruling which decided that the FDA could not claim jurisdiction under FDCA (which is the standards controlling drugs and would serve as a de-facto ban on e-cigs until the products were put through years of clinical trials involving millions of dollars)but rather that e-cigs met the legal definition of 'tobacco products' under the Tobacco Act passed by congress and thus the FDA could only regulate the e-cigs as tobacco products. This would give the FDA the ability to regulate the e-cigs and establish safety and quality control guidelines as well as other legal aspects such as advertising, distribution and age requirements.