[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nanny State PING!

[rktman]

Yup. Crack down on evil tobacco and those evil E-Cigs and loosen the reigns on wonderful pot. So, in 40 years or so, will “they” discover “they” made a huge mistake? Will pot companies be forced to stop advertising and marketing and have to pay for their “awful lies”?

Gonna go fire up a Marlboro now. While it’s still legal.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

...including banning sales to minors.

Why?

[Obadiah]

When does the FDA begin regulating Marijuana?

[Beagle8U]

This is only one small part of what Owebama’s plans were, the big item he announced was putting the full tobacco tax on pipe tobacco and cigars!

That roll your own ‘pipe tobacco’ is going to be taxed at the same rate as cigarette tobacco!

[dila813]

The cool thing about these devices is you can make your own e-cig fluid at home. The ingredients are common to food production and insecticide.

[DannyTN]

Doesn't sound all that draconian to me....

• prohibiting sales to minors
• requiring health labels that warn users that nicotine is an addictive chemical,
• register their products with the agency
• disclose ingredients.
• would not be allowed to claim their products are safer than other tobacco products.
• They also couldn't use words such as "light" or "mild" to describe their products,
• couldn't give out free samples or sell their products in vending machines unless they are in a place open only to adults, such as a bar.
• Companies also will be required to submit applications for premarket review within two years.
• The FDA said it will allow the products to stay on the market while they are being reviewed.

[Amendment10]

The federal government wants to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors ...

Regardless what Constitution-ignoring socialist FDR's activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers, and with the exception of federal entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress evidenced by the Constitution's Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I, the states have never delegated to the feds, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce. This is evidenced by the following excerpt.

”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. (emphases added)” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So the idea of the federal government wanting to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors, while arguably a good thing, is nontheless outside the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers imo. The states need to legislate such bans under their 10th Amendment-protected powers until they choose to amend the Constitution with such a prohibition.

[CSM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN99jshaQbY

We must do something about this immediately!

[Drango]

It’s a DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE.

Nothing in the proposed regulations prevents an ADULT from feeding their addiction 24/7, 365 days a year.

[Praxeologue]

They also would not be allowed to claim their products are safer than other tobacco products.

Of course, they are safer, but we can't let them tell anyone that. Nicotine is addictive, yes, but only minimally harmful, akin to caffeine. It is the 3,000 other chemicals in tobacco cigarettes that give you lung cancer.

So the tobacco companies are behind this. $2 billion of e-cigarette sales are eating into coffin nail sales, so e-cigs must be held up while the tobacco industry re-gears to take over the budding e-cig industry ... using the heavy hand of the state get their way: registration of existing products, lawyers, paperwork, etc. K-Street is out in force for the tobacco industry on this.

Then, when RJR, Lorillard and B&W have an 80% market share, suddenly e-cigs will be safer and they will be called 'mild' and 'light'.

Just watch.