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I submitted the following comments to FDA on April 30 at Regulations.gov (but removed the section revealing the increase in teens vaping substances that aren't permitted to be discussed on ECF). My Comment Tracking Number: 1k3-99n8-d5pc Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products...

https://goldwaterinstitute.org/article/for-some-oregon-small-business-owners-free-speech-rights-are-being-vaporized/ The lawsuit is at https://goldwaterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bates-Complaint-12-11-18-1.pdf

Critically important 2017 NYTS data (which CDC and FDA have buried and ignored) found: CDC - National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) - Smoking & Tobacco Use Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students... Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States...

a 7.7 fold increase since Sen Chuck Schumer began the War on JUUL on 10/15/2017 at Bonnie Herzog reported past 52 week sales of JUUL (according to Nielsen data) were $1.495 Billion on October 6, 2018, up more than seven fold from $193.7 Million on October 7, 2017. On October 15, 2017, Sen...

Maria Verven wrote an excellent article exposing CDC survey data that thoroughly refute and disprove claims by FDA's Scott Gottlieb about an epidemic of vaping addiction among teens. Maria Verven - Censored Truth: The US FDA’s vendetta against vapor Vapor Voice

Former CDC head Tom Frieden charged with forcibly touching woman - CNN At CDC, Frieden funded local health agencies in most US cities to ban vaping from 2013-2017, and created the public panic about teen vaping from 2014-2017 (in collaboration with FDA's Mitch Zeller to lobby for Deeming Rule...

Altria reports 10.8% cigarette volume decline in 2Q18, and a 7.6% decline in first half of 2018; reports 2.4% smokeless tobacco volume decline in 2Q18 and a 1.3% decline in first half of 2018; reports 16% e-vapor volume increase in 2Q18 (but doesn't provide data) Press Release Looks like lots...

New Gallup Poll finds more young adults vape (20%) than smoke cigarettes (16%), finds: - 9% of US adults regularly (2%) or occasionally (7%) vape, including 20% of 18-29 year olds, 9% of 30-49 year olds, 7% of 50-64 year olds, and <0.5% of those 65+, - 20% of US adults regularly (13%) or...

I've gone through all US tobacco sales reports from Wells Fargo's Bonnie Herzog in the past year, and have compiled (below) Nielsen data for sales of JUUL and for total e-cigs (i.e. JUUL + Big Tobacco's e-cigs) in the US. Importantly, while Nielsen doesn't track sales of premium vapor products...

If you wish to comment on the ANPRM, you can do so here (deadline 11.59pm ET 16 July): Regulations.gov - - - Smokefree Pennsylvania 1926 Monongahela Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15218 412-351-5880 billgodshall@verizon.net July 13, 2018 Food and Drug Administration 21 CFR Part 1130 Docket No...

11 Democrat Senators (most of whom lobbied FDA to impose the Deeming Rule to ban vapor sales to adults) send an accusatory letter to JUUL's executive https://www.durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/JUUL%20Letter%20-%20S%20IGNED.pdf and a letter to FDA's Gottlieb...

CDC NHIS finds another new record low 14.1% adult cigarette smoking rate (for first 9 months of 2017), down from 15.8% in 2016; but CDC fails to issue a press release or report https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/EarlyRelease201803_08.pdf Note that CDC changed the NHIS in 2016...

Analysis of 2015 NYTS data on 6-12th graders exposes many false claims by CDC, finds: Frequency of Use and Smoking Status of U.S. Adolescent E-Cigarette Users in 2015 (note that ‘frequent’ use = 20+ of past 30 days, and ‘infrequent’ use = <20 of past 30 days) - frequent smokers were 84 times...

More than a dozen Big Tobacco funded organizations (led by ATR) urge Congress to include Cole-Bishop Amendment in 2018 Federal Spending Bill (which Congress must pass this month), falsely insinuate it would keep many/most 2016 vapor products legal to market beyond 2022. Coalition Urges Congress...

Wells Fargo's Bonnie Herzog increased her 2018 US vapor sales estimate from $5.1B to $5.5B (just 4 weeks after she estimated it would be $5.1B). Due to the skyrocketing growth of Juul, Herzog increased her 2018 estimate for sales of cigalike e-cigs from $1.6B to $2B. Below are Herzog's...

FDA holds 1/26/2017 public hearing (that can be watched live) to further promote/protect/subsidize more Big Pharma NRT drugs (since the NRT products approved by FDA during the past 25 years have had a 95% failure rate) Public Meeting on FDA Approach to Evaluating Nicotine Replacement Therapies...

FDA TPSAC is now meeting (January 24/25) to discuss PMI’s MRTP application for IQOS and Marlboro Heat Sticks (can be watched live); the public comment period is from 8AM-9AM on January 25. 2018 TPSAC Meeting Materials and Information At the bottom of FDA's webpage is a link to watch the meeting...

Next week the DHHS funded National Academies will release its report titled "Public Health Consequences of E-cigarettes", which almost certainly will misrepresent the scientific and empirical evidence about vaping (just as FDA, CDC, SG and other DHHS agencies and funding recipients have done...

Clarifying the Impact of Cole-Bishop on the Vapor Industry By Bill Godshall Founder and Executive Director Smokefree Pennsylvania 1926 Monongahela Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15218 On December 20, Tony Abboud from the two-year-old Vaper Technology Association (VTA) sent out an e-mail (at the bottom...

Well's Fargo's Bonnie Herzog is now estimating that $5.1 Billion of vapor products will be sold in the US in 2018, an increase from $4.4 Billion in 2017. Perhaps most importantly, Herzog estimates that $3.5 Billion of Premium/Open Vaporizers and E-Liquid will be sold in 2017, up from $3 Billion...