Now is the Time To Act! I am Serious! **updated**

[Smokingfreely]

what i cant understand about all this is why havent any major U.S. manufacturers tried to get FDA approval on this yet?...what is stopping them?...why isnt anyone interested?...and why isnt Big Tobacco trying to monopoly the situation...id think instead of outlawing it theyd prefer if losing a smoker, to lose a smoker to an ecig which they manufacture. They look good by providing a way to quit and they make money for smokers who are quitting due to high taxes and health issues.

Yet ive heard of no major U.S. manufacturing interest...im dumbfounded!

Our current average NDA approval time is now around 12 months, six if it's expedited (Jonesing smokers is not cause for expediation....) The FDA doesn't publish submissions for NDAs until they're approved. How do you know no one has an application right now. On the right to vape site, someone located an RJ reynolds patent that appears to describe an electornic cigarette, Ruyan supposedly has lawyers on staff that specialize in dealings with the FDA - how do we know that there are no applications in right now. My money's on RJ Reynolds, but seriosuly, anyone could, and it really doesn't matter if they're a US based company or not.

[KreeL]

I can't help but wonder what the formation of the ECA will mean to we the consumers in regard to the price of e-products.

[lordmage]

persoanll i am waiting to see if the ECa will actually do us any good or hurt us with respects to actual control vs approval. right now i am with holding judgement

[Vapor Pete]

Theres' an ECA???
My best,
-VP

[esmok-e]

Our current average NDA approval time is now around 12 months, six if it's expedited (Jonesing smokers is not cause for expediation....) The FDA doesn't publish submissions for NDAs until they're approved. How do you know no one has an application right now. On the right to vape site, someone located an RJ reynolds patent that appears to describe an electornic cigarette, Ruyan supposedly has lawyers on staff that specialize in dealings with the FDA - how do we know that there are no applications in right now. My money's on RJ Reynolds, but seriosuly, anyone could, and it really doesn't matter if they're a US based company or not.

Touchdown!

[Avid]

Touchdown!

excellent

[Bill Godshall]

Following several news stories stating that Kennedy would introduce his own FDA tobacco bill in the US Senate today, it now appears that the Senate will act on the Waxman bill (H.R. 1256) instead (that passed the House last month), as Majority Leader Harry Reid just invoked Rule 14 for H.R. 1256 so it bypasses the Senate HELP Committee and goes directly to the floor of the Senate.

Seems like supporters of the Waxman/Kennedy legislation (Kennedy's bill would likely have been 90% the same as Waxman's bill) were concerned that there weren't enough votes in the HELP Cmte to prevent harm reduction amendments from being passed.

Will post more when info becomes available.

[TropicalBob]

Do you not view passage of this bill as very bad news for harm reduction products?

[yvilla]

TBob, did you see this post by Bill?

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/for...tml#post207509

It sounds to me like he thinks the Burr/Hagan bill (or amendments incorporating its thrust) is necessary to further harm reduction strategies, but that Waxman, if passed unamended would indeed be very bad news.

Edit: TBob, I have to correct my mistake - Godshall does talk about the Burr/Hagan bill in the post I referred you to, but I was mistakenly confusing it with the defeated Buyer bill, which did have good harm reduction proposals.

[TropicalBob]

I did see the other post, thanks. I know Buyer got shot down in the House, but surely hope the Burr amendment can stall the stampede to Senate passage of the Waxman bill. I was hoping Bill could shed more light on the ramifications of passage in the present form.