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E-cigarette rule coming 'very soon,' U.S. FDA chief says
FOX News ^ | April 4, 2014 | Reuters

Posted on 04/05/2014 11:32:51 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Edited on 04/05/2014 11:33:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is "pushing very hard" to release a proposed rule that would establish its authority over e-cigarettes, the head of the agency said on Thursday amid concerns the products pose a risk to children.

FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told senators at a Congressional budget hearing that it has taken too long to move the rule forward and that she expects the proposal to be ready for release "very soon."


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To: Olog-hai

Yes they did. Used to buy them all the time.


21 posted on 04/05/2014 12:04:00 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: packrat35

They really made as many of them as of candy cigarettes? I don’t seem to remember a large selection.


22 posted on 04/05/2014 12:07:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: McGruff

Outlaw? No, just tax at a dollar a puff.


23 posted on 04/05/2014 12:08:49 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: Olog-hai

Bubble gum cigars but do remember they never really caught on except to hand out when babies were born.


24 posted on 04/05/2014 12:12:23 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: Jack Hammer
In a Marxist State, the government seizes control of everything; at this point, why does anyone pretend we’re still a free people?

We don't.

25 posted on 04/05/2014 12:13:24 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

I haven’t said, “It’s a Free Country” in a coon’s age.


26 posted on 04/05/2014 12:17:38 PM PDT by sport
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To: Tammy8
Bubble gum cigars but do remember they never really caught on except to hand out when babies were born.

I got one every Wednesday when I went to pick up my periodicals.

Of course, I was 10 years old and my periodicals were comic books.

27 posted on 04/05/2014 12:18:53 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: SpaceBar; smokingfrog
Then there is John Maynard Keynes observation in "The Economic Consequences of the Peace - 1920":

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. . . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. . . . (It) does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose. . . ." - John Maynard Keynes, "Economic Consequences of the Peace - 1920"

28 posted on 04/05/2014 12:21:00 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Is there anyone here who doubts for a second that tobacco industry lobbyists will get their way here? This industry will be banned or regulated out of existence, and both party’s bank accounts will be just a little bit better funded this election cycle.


29 posted on 04/05/2014 12:21:07 PM PDT by Blackyce (French President Jacques Chirac: "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.")
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To: smokingfrog

Yep!


30 posted on 04/05/2014 12:24:02 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I have mixed feelings on this. My 19 year old came home from college with one and had trouble putting it down. I felt that something is up with these things. Recently, a “vapor” store opened a few miles from my home and I was like WTH?

I guess drugs adapt as laws, regulations and social norms attempt to control them.

Hopefully, it is a fad that my knuckle headed son will move on from. To be so intellectually smart, but so emotionally and socially dumb... it is sad.

I don’t want more government controls and laws, but research and publication of dangers of these things are not a bad thing.

I know “spice” or synthetic marijuana is a really dangerous drug that is hurting young and old people. I would not have known about it, if not for following college football.


31 posted on 04/05/2014 12:26:09 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Olog-hai

I remember bubblegum packaged to look like cigars...pink cigars!


32 posted on 04/05/2014 12:27:09 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: BenLurkin
Do you even care? No.

LOL, I didn't think so.

Seriously, I don't think the FDA wants to ban these things.


33 posted on 04/05/2014 12:29:44 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Jack Hammer

I’ve been trying to think of one thing, one item the government doesn’t some how have it’s mittens in.


34 posted on 04/05/2014 12:33:39 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: DannyTN

Do you assume that we all trust anything available on a shelf of a store? Plenty of us do not-I don’t use e-cigs, I don’t do drugs, illicit or prescription, and I don’t eat processed, or even most canned food. I’m a responsible adult-I don’t apply, eat, smoke, or drink anything without reading the ingredients and looking up the contents on the net, and I don’t trust or need the FDA to tell me how/what to eat, smoke, drink or wash my dishes in.

And the FDA doesn’t care at all if you are a lab rat-if you don’t believe that, check out the ingredients on the next pre-packaged food item you consume, or the next OTC drug you take for a sneeze. And it is not “for the children”, either...

How about we go back to being responsible for our own kids and our own selves, and hiring companies not connected with government and/or lobbyists to do independent testing on new products? I’m sure there are plenty of testing labs who would appreciate the business-put it into private hands and let them bid on it.


35 posted on 04/05/2014 12:34:01 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Blackyce
"Is there anyone here who doubts for a second that tobacco industry lobbyists will get their way here? This industry will be banned or regulated out of existence, and both party’s bank accounts will be just a little bit better funded this election cycle."

Since when has the tobacco industry won any battle?

36 posted on 04/05/2014 12:41:16 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Given the political climate re: tobacco over the past few decades, the fact that the tobacco industry still exists today is itself a huge victory for the industry.


37 posted on 04/05/2014 12:46:53 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: DannyTN

Spoken like a good slave. Massa knows best. If you’re scared of e-cigs, don’t buy one. Same logic as guns.


38 posted on 04/05/2014 12:48:37 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Texan5
"How about we go back to being responsible for our own kids and our own selves, and hiring companies not connected with government and/or lobbyists to do independent testing on new products?"

There is not enough time in the day for the average person to inspect and test everything that would need to be inspected.

And I have no interest in growing the food myself.

Who do you propose hire the independent companies? I can't afford that. Or were you suggesting the government spend the money on independent contractors so that whoever is in office can funnel contracts to their bundlers?

39 posted on 04/05/2014 12:50:44 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ozzymandus
"Spoken like a good slave. Massa knows best. If you’re scared of e-cigs, don’t buy one. Same logic as guns."

Stupid analogy. With a gun there's a very insignificantly small chance you'll shoot yourself, and I'll end up paying SS disability, medicaid and food stamps to support you through my taxes.

But E-cigs like cigarettes are made for one purpose. To shoot yourself with them.

If you insist on being stupid:


40 posted on 04/05/2014 1:02:43 PM PDT by DannyTN
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