1. Short title; table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Cigarette Smoking Reduction and Electronic Vapor Alternatives Act of 2017 . (b) Table of contents The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Purposes of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Sec. 4. Regulation of electronic vapor products. Sec. 5. Joint comparative health risk assessment. 2. Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) Cigarette smoking is the practice of burning tobacco rolled in a paper and inhaling the smoke. According to the Department of Health and Human Services— (A) the burning of tobacco produces a chemical mixture of more than 7,000 compounds; (B) cigarette smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and harms nearly every organ of the body; (C) cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year, including nearly 42,000 deaths due to secondhand tobacco smoke; (D) the economic cost of cigarette smoking is more than $300 billion a year, including nearly $170 billion in direct medical care, and more than $156 billion in lost productivity