PROTECT Act

This bill would require the federal health department, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to run a Reducing Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Initiative. The initiative would fund research on how youth and young adults use e-cigarettes and other new tobacco products, how they get them, how they are marketed, and how users quit. It would also create guidance for health care providers and schools, run a public education campaign, and continue CDC funding to state, local, territorial, and Tribal health programs to prevent use and support quitting. The department would have 90 days to send Congress and post online a strategy for the initiative, and the bill authorizes $100 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031.

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Sponsors

• Richard Blumenthal Democrat sponsor
• 5 cosponsors