Posted on 07/21/2014 11:39:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A House Democrat is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban e-cigarette flavors and celebrity marketing practices that she says target children.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) wrote to the FDA Monday warning e-cigarette makers are trying to entice children with flavors such as “chocolate, gummy bear, bubble gum and strawberry.” She also warned the industry is using “celebrity endorsements” to encourage young people to take up smoking the nicotine vaporizers.
“Due to the growth in child and adolescent experimentation with these alternative delivery systems, I urge the FDA to move quickly to ban child-friendly flavorings and youth-oriented marketing practices,” DeLauro said. The Connecticut lawmaker also said nicotine poisoning in children is on the rise because nicotine cartridges used in e-cgarettes are not childproof. She adds the FDA should act immediately to allow only childproof cartridges on the market.
Senate Democrats are already pushing legislation to demand nicotine cartridges are childproof, a measure which has been supported by the e-cigarette industry.
Earlier this year the FDA proposed rules to regulate the e-cigarette industry by requiring health warnings on their packaging and banning their sales to minors.
DeLauro says the FDA should update the rules and issue a final regulation not later than April of next year.
I had all those perks of ‘60s youth too. We’d run all over the neighborhood and only came home when it was dinnertime. Seems every Stingray had a baseball mitt slung over the handlebar just in case of a pickup game in one of the fields at the school across the street. Nobody wore helmets, knee pads or elbow pads. If you fell, you got your a** up off the ground, dusted off, then got back in your bike.
A long-past era...
Is there a single record of any e-cig retailer marketing their products to children? Those flavors are aimed at adults. Their meant to be different and fun. E-cigs don’t have to taste like a cigarette as they contain no tobacco.
Man, that’s a face that could knock a buzzard off a s- wagon.
I am on day 111, so I am right behind you! It has been a miracle for me and many others! May mzzzz. Deloris go to hell! They will have to take my banana split vape from my cold dead hands! LOL
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Those bright candy color laundry pods look like candy to small children. I've seen warning signs up about them. So why are they still on the market. Cause we have people with to much money to waste, and to lazy to measure out laundry soap.
I have never seen an e-cig ad targeted to children.
Democrats are often a solution in search of a problem.
Congrats back to you all.
I’ve tried every other method to quit and the e-cig is the only one that has worked so far.
Make sure you use the liquid that says ‘MADE IN USA”. I bought some that was....you guessed it, made in China and returned it for the ‘Crown Seven’ brand.
Same here. Nov 15 was my quit date.
totallywicked-eliquid.com
I am coming up on 1 yr 8 months. Yay! Have saved a fortune.
Love my vapes.
YAY! Congrats! lol. I just pretty much made myself a prisoner in my home and that did the trick. :)
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She almost seems like an extra from a Monty Python skit.
Part of me feels sorry for her.
[the other part has the screaming heebie-jeebies]
Mikhael Obama plans to do just that!
No problem with Colorado's pot infused chocolate bars and doped up gummy bears though.
Down is up. Wrong is right.
“marketing” any of that to children shouldn’t be allowed, selling it to them should be a crime.
I get my juice from a place that makes it right on the premises.
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