Didn't these things have to get FDA approval before they were put on the market in the first place (a non-smoker asks)?
it was pretty unregulated back when they first came out- many were shipping from china-
No. FDA did not assert authority over vaping until a few years ago.
The FDA looked upon Vape and e-cigs as they did with other tobacco products. No approval needed for recreational substances like alcohol and nicotine. The feds did not care when this was a few hundred people puffing e-cigs.
Now there is an established industry, with established customers, established local small business at the end of the supply chain, and solid cash flow. Time for them to get shaken down by the local mob, er, our wonderful representative government...
And a few thousand bootleg THC vape cartridges gave them all the excuse they needed.
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In retrospect, the FDA should have acted sooner
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Didn’t these things have to get FDA approval before they were put on the market in the first place (a non-smoker asks)?
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Yes, ‘cuz’ smoking ANYTHING hasn’t been known to be problematic since the Dawn of Man; let alone req. ‘permission’ from Big Brother.