New Legislation Aims to Cap <br />Nicotine Levels in E-Cigarettes.<br />The bill would limit nicotine <br />content to no more than <br />20 milligrams per milliliter.<br />Popular e-cigarette Juul contains <br />several times that amount, with its <br />5% pods containing about 59mg/ml.<br />The change is intended to prevent addiction among youth, <br />which has become a widespread issue in the United States.<br />The US Food and Drug Administration <br />revealed that 27.5% of high schoolers <br />used e-cigarettes, up from 11.7% in 2017.<br />Capping the concentration of nicotine in e-cigarettes is integral to ending the youth vaping epidemic by making these products less addictive, less appealing to youth, and less harmful to public health, US Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi
