Posted on 04/25/2014 12:29:18 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group
Please share your experiences, your knowledge, and counter their incorrect thought processes. Link to comment is at the bottom of the email I received today from whitehouse.gov
(SORRY for the links showing up as they did. Perhaps someone with a little HTML-fu can create actual clickable links from that mess?)
It’s about the money... If e-cigs prove to be innocuous, or at least far less harmful than tobacco, they’re a relative benefit. Tax it!
Anyone who thinks this is being done for any reason other than money is deluded. This is the camel’s nose under the tent, by which e-cigs will be regulated until they are as ineffective at helping people quit smoking as the existing pharmaceutical approaches, whose performance barely outdoes placebos, but which are 100% effective at generating hundreds of millions of dollars for the politically connected.
I think E-cigs are great, but should be limited to 18 and older.
Nothing more.
I do not understand the people that want to BAN E-cigs on the basis that flavors will entice children.
Just make it 18 and older.
They have been selling peach schnapps for hundreds of years.
That could certainly be accomplished at a state level: no need to involve the feds.
I agree, but the FDA does not.
This really doesn’t have a damn thing to do with the FDA wanting to regulate E-cigs, that is just an excuse to change what they did in 2009.
Not mentioned here is the fact that they plan to add the 2500% tobacco tax on pipe tobacco and cigars.
They were losing to much in taxes on roll your own tobacco, and want another bite at the apple to correct their mistake.
They are using E-cigs as an excuse to slip that in.
It’s about some people loving the idea of power and control over others. It has nothing to do with health or safety, and has a LOT to do with money.
I think you’ll agree it’s a matter of when, not if. And the extent to which the gov’t overreaches. They should ban sales to <18 yr olds, implement the same advertising limits as tobacco products, and implement severe penalties for offering anything other than nicotine-based products. And there should be ongoing testing because it’s a drug delivery device and the long term effects are unknown.
/johnny
Where did your information come from?
/johnny
How does one make an effective product ineffective? Are you proposing that they’ll force manufacturers to remove the nicotine?
My mother, father, brother, his girlfriend, my mother in law and my wife have all kicked the habit thanks to e-cigarettes. This is completely and totally about money. The government sees these as a threat to their tobacco tax revenues and now they want to regulate them to get in on the action.
What a farce!
e-cigs are a threat to Big Government, Big Tobacco, and Big Pharma. They will be crushed by regulations.
If the left wants to ban E-cigs because it looks too much like real cigs then they must hate all long, slender things in their mouths.
I guess they’ll ban homosexuality next! /s
They are NOT a tobacco product, so by what reason can/should they be regulated under any tobacco law?
What is the significance of February 15, 2007 for the substantial equivalence test? Is this an arbitrary baseline date, or was there a landmark ruling? I don’t get it.
They are NOT a tobacco product and considering them as such makes no sense whatsoever. Also, many of the mixes you can use in them contain no nicotine at all.
Nicotine gums and patches are drug delivery devices and advertise all over the TV and radio and the long term effects are unknown.
BTW, I’ve never used an e-cig or any pharmaceutical nicotine delivery device and the majority of my nicotine consumption nowadays comes from my roasted or mashed potatoes, roasted pepper laden pizza, and eggplant parmigiana.
The FDA pushes them - at the behest of their overlords in the pharmaceutical industry and the pharma puppets in congress go along with them.
/johnny
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