Table 2.

Timeline of policies/rules/regulations enforced at the federal level

No.	Date	Name of agency	Regulation particulars	Implication
1.	June, 2009	Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Department of Health and Human Services.	Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. [45]	Authorizing FDA to regulate tobacco products including e-cigarettes. It led to the creation of center for tobacco products.
2.	April, 2014	Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Department of Health and Human Services.	Proposed Deeming Regulations [46]	Authorized the FDA to put heavy restrictions on most of the existing unregulated e-cigarette manufacturing industry and required premarket tobacco applications (PMTA’s) for new manufacturers