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Your MoneyTransparency & AccountabilityThe CDC would launch a youth vaping effort — research, a national ad campaign, and quit help for teens.
Your Money
The CDC would keep paying health departments to help young people quit vaping, such as through phone quitlines. It would also teach doctors and nurses what quit help Medicaid and CHIP cover.
Transparency & Accountability
Within 90 days of the law passing, HHS would send Congress its plan for the youth vaping effort. It would also post the plan on its website for anyone to read.
More about this bill
Teens and young adults who vape could get more help quitting under this bill. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nation's public health agency, would run a new effort on e-cigarettes and other new tobacco products. It would study which products young people use, how they get them, and how ads reach them. It would also study how much nicotine these products deliver and how they affect health. The CDC would write advice for doctors and schools on helping young users quit. It would also run a national ad campaign with the Food and Drug Administration and the Surgeon General. The CDC would keep funding state, local, and tribal health departments to help young people avoid vaping or quit. That includes phone quitlines. Within 90 days, the Department of Health and Human Services would send Congress a plan for the effort and post it online. The bill allows up to $100 million a year from 2027 through 2031. Congress would still have to approve that money each year.
Congressional Summary
Preventing Opportunities for Teen E-Cigarette and Tobacco Addiction Act or the PROTECT Act This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a strategy and carry out a specific initiative to prevent and reduce the use of electronic cigarettes and emerging tobacco products among youth and young adults. As part of the initiative, the CDC must conduct research and surveillance on types of products, patterns of use, health impacts, and other aspects of the use of such products by youth and young adults; evaluate prevention and intervention strategies and develop guidance for intervening and treating youth and young adults who use such products; identify effective messaging and communication efforts and implement a national public education campaign concerning the use of such products; and continue to fund grants for tobacco control programs in health departments, including efforts to prevent and reduce the use of such products by youth and young adults.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-08-06
- Date Added
- 2026-10-07
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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