FDA regulations could kill the vaping industry

WVLT - CBS Local ^ | May 25, 2016 | By Lauren Davis

[Hot Tabasco]

First it was the smokers back in the 1970s when they moved them to the back of the plane.......and nobody stood up for them.

Then it became firearms and the firearms industries........How many of those supporters stood behind the smokers while the smokers stood behind the 2nd Amendment supporters.....?

Then they came after....you name it.......

Everybody has their own little niche that they will support without any thought to the bigger picture..........

I'm at the point where I really don't give a damn anymore......

So called "conservatives" haven't done me a damn bit of good over the past 20 years.........

[right way right]

I used vaping to quit smoking. It worked well enough that I was able to quit both habits.

[Boogieman]

“Drugs are not mentioned in the Constitution but “life” is mentioned in the Declaration...”

The Declaration doesn’t determine what the federal government has the authority to do. If they don’t have Constitutional authorization to do something, then they aren’t “supposed” to be doing it, period.

[libertarian27]

The only companies that can afford these regulations are big tobacco companies, they are late to the vaping party but they are doing it now.

Big Tobacco and Big Government already have the tax avenues in place to tax the vapers at cigarette rates - they miss that revenue. Vaping took away billions of dollars in tax money, they want it back.....enter FDA.

[Drango]

bummer. Roadblocks to addiction.

[HiTech RedNeck]

My guess is that Big Tobacco demanded and got a chokehold on the action through regulations they could easily afford but shut out the little guy.

I’d say there needs to be a vape equivalent of roll your own.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And just how nanny are you going to get. Do we require health certificates before someone buys a dozen calorie laden doughnuts?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Contrariwise, vaping has worked fairly well as a quitting route.

[Drango]

First it was the smokers back in the 1970s when they moved them to the back of the plane.......and nobody stood up for them.

LOL. What's to stand up for? I was asking for regulation as were millions of of other conservatives.

[pierrem15]

First of all, legally, it isn't a drug, because vape sellers make no claim about it's health effects, whereas nicotine patch and gum manufacturers claim a definite health effect: their products assist you to quit smoking.

Therefore, the only legal claim is if the FDA can prove vaping is harmful. But they can't. We don't have a precautionary principle in law: the FDA has to make bogus claims in order to claim jurisdiction.

They also can't claim it's tobacco, because it isn't.

What you're saying is like saying mouthwash should have a tax stamp because it contains alcohol.

They're simply lying and unlawfully extending their authority in large part through the sloppy reasoning you just exhibited.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Conservatives-of-what?

If you are a die hard constitutional libertarian you will want to “conserve” things that a die hard health nanny won’t want to, and vice versa.

[fruser1]

“Good thing republicans control both houses “

Unfortunately, they don’t do anything about it. Note the already onerous regs and taxes on tobacco. No regs abolished, nor taxes down, whoever runs the show!

Vape suppliers should just go black-market. Better money there anyway.

[Drango]

vaping has worked fairly well as a quitting route.

Unless you're a teenager who experimented with vaping, got addicted then took up smoking.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or there could be a roll your own vape market (blend your own? vodka and tobacco, would that work in the vape dispensers?)

[HiTech RedNeck]

There is always the marginal case. A car could get you wrapped around a telephone pole too.

[Drango]

I ain’t no Losertarian.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I beg your pardon, why not listen to the Gipper?

[HiTech RedNeck]

You are a nananana nanny.

[G Larry]

Proof they don’t want anything interfering with tobacco tax receipts.

[Drango]

You are an addict.