Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined more than 30 colleagues this week to urge the Food and Drug Administration to take further steps to protect minors from e-cigarettes. [Health News Illinois]

Thirty-two attorneys general and one deputy attorney general wrote a letter commenting on a five-year strategic plan by the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products. They recommended prohibiting all non-tobacco flavors in e-cigarettes, enacting limits on nicotine in e-cigarettes, restricting marketing and closing a “loophole” where disposable e-cigarettes are not subject to the same, existing enforcement guidance as cartridge e-cigarettes.

“The FDA is a critical partner in this effort, but it can and must do more,” Raoul said in a statement. “That is why we are urging the FDA to take additional steps to protect young people from nicotine addiction through e-cigarette usage.”

A spokesman for the FDA said they will respond directly to the attorneys general.

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