FDA Lindblom: "Effectively regulating E-Cigarettes" - is this the future?

[Oliver]

I've just had the pleasure (really?) of reading through Eric Lindblom's Food and Drug Law Journal piece "effectively Regulating E-Cigarettes and Their Advertising - and the First Amendment", and I've posted my initial thoughts here: http://vaping.com/news/a-glimpse-into-the-regulatory-future-of-vaping

There's much more to be said, but I've written up what I think is the crux of the article (everything else stems from this).

It's quite an interesting document, and I'd very much like to hear everyone else's thoughts.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Note that Eric Lindblom worked for Big Pharma funded CTFK (which urged FDA to ban e-cigs in 2009, and filed many amicus briefs with the courts defending FDA's unlawful e-cig ban) for more than a decade before he became the FDA CTP's director of policy in 2010.

Lindblom knows that vaping is far less hazardous than smoking, that vaping has helped many smokers quit, and that virtually all nicotine vapor products have been consumed by adult smokers and exsmokers. In sum, Lindblom (like other e-cig opponents) is a sociopathic prohibitionist who has long advocated FDA banning e-cigs while keeping far more hazardous cigarettes legal (as CTFK negotiation and agreed to the FSPTCA in 2004, which prohibits FDA from banning cigarettes, and CTFK lobbied Congress to enact the FSPTCA by falsely claiming it was necessary to "protect children from Big Tobacco".).

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/oneillinstitute/news/documents/March10-LindblomFDLJ_001.pdf

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