A very interesting poll published in The Hill I came across today:
"What, then, will people who currently use e-cigarettes do if, on August 8th 2018, their preferred products are no longer legally available to buy. My research team at the Centre for Substance Use Research (CSUR) recently asked this question to more than 9,000 US-based e-cigarette users, and the results should give FDA cause for alarm.
"First, 8,451 current e-cigarette users who were also former cigarette smokers were asked what they would likely do if, as a consequence of the Deeming Rule, the e-cigarette products they use right now were taken off the market. Approximately 73 percent of the vaping former smokers indicated they would ‘bulk buy’/stock up on their preferred products before the rule was implemented.
"Nearly 70 percent indicated they would start to source their e-cigarettes and e-liquids from a non-licensed vendor, and so fuel a black market trade in e-cigarettes. In addition, 66 percent of vaping former smokers said they would likely start to import e-cigarettes from overseas, and 65percent said they would start making and mixing their own e-liquids at home — in other words, they would become not merely a consumer, but also a manufacturer of e-cigarette products.
"It is very likely that each of these intended responses to FDA’s regulations would pose much greater risks to the health of consumers than are being posed by the e-cigarette products that are currently being sold in stores across the US. These unintended consequences — in particular, driving consumers to an underground ‘black market’ trade in e-cigarette products of dubious manufacturing standards and unknowable toxicity — would both undermine FDA’s ability to assess the population health impact of its own rule, and undermine the FDA’s stated mission of improving and protecting the health of Americans.
"In contrast to the high rate at which our respondents indicated their intention to continue using e-cigarettes and supplies that will not be purchased from licensed vendors, only 17.5 percent of vaping former smokers said they will continue to buy e-cigarette products that have been FDA-approved and only 6.2 percent said they would stop using e-cigarettes altogether.
And then came a particularly worrying finding —15 percent of the respondents, who have already successfully quit smoking, said they would likely start smoking again if they could no longer legally buy their preferred e-cigarette products."
Read the full article here: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-bl...sequences-of-the-fdas-e-cigarette-regulations
"What, then, will people who currently use e-cigarettes do if, on August 8th 2018, their preferred products are no longer legally available to buy. My research team at the Centre for Substance Use Research (CSUR) recently asked this question to more than 9,000 US-based e-cigarette users, and the results should give FDA cause for alarm.
"First, 8,451 current e-cigarette users who were also former cigarette smokers were asked what they would likely do if, as a consequence of the Deeming Rule, the e-cigarette products they use right now were taken off the market. Approximately 73 percent of the vaping former smokers indicated they would ‘bulk buy’/stock up on their preferred products before the rule was implemented.
"Nearly 70 percent indicated they would start to source their e-cigarettes and e-liquids from a non-licensed vendor, and so fuel a black market trade in e-cigarettes. In addition, 66 percent of vaping former smokers said they would likely start to import e-cigarettes from overseas, and 65percent said they would start making and mixing their own e-liquids at home — in other words, they would become not merely a consumer, but also a manufacturer of e-cigarette products.
"It is very likely that each of these intended responses to FDA’s regulations would pose much greater risks to the health of consumers than are being posed by the e-cigarette products that are currently being sold in stores across the US. These unintended consequences — in particular, driving consumers to an underground ‘black market’ trade in e-cigarette products of dubious manufacturing standards and unknowable toxicity — would both undermine FDA’s ability to assess the population health impact of its own rule, and undermine the FDA’s stated mission of improving and protecting the health of Americans.
"In contrast to the high rate at which our respondents indicated their intention to continue using e-cigarettes and supplies that will not be purchased from licensed vendors, only 17.5 percent of vaping former smokers said they will continue to buy e-cigarette products that have been FDA-approved and only 6.2 percent said they would stop using e-cigarettes altogether.
And then came a particularly worrying finding —15 percent of the respondents, who have already successfully quit smoking, said they would likely start smoking again if they could no longer legally buy their preferred e-cigarette products."
Read the full article here: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-bl...sequences-of-the-fdas-e-cigarette-regulations
