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The industry's growth could be stymied domestically by the FDA, which says it plans to regulate electronic cigarettes - though it has offered no hints as to what that regulation might look like. Under the Tobacco Control Act, the FDA cannot currently regulate e-cigarettes, unless the manufacturers make therapeutic claims. (That's why you don't now see e-cigarettes marketed as a way to stop smoking traditional cigarettes.) But the FDA has the legal right to add categories to the tobacco products it regulates after going through certain procedural steps, including a public comment process. It plans to begin that comment process later this year and eventually issue regulations on electronic cigarettes and other unregulated tobacco products.