‘Baptists, Bootleggers & Electronic Cigarettes’

[oplholik]

By Jonathan H. Adler July 10 at 6:27 PM
"The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products under federal law could do more to benefit Big Tobacco than to safeguard public health. Major cigarette manufacturers stand to benefit from regulations that both reduce the comparative advantage of electronic cigarettes and constrain competition within the e-cigarette market. For this reason, it should be no surprise that the Big Two tobacco companies — Altria and Reynolds — supported the FDA’s proposal to begin such regulation."

‘Baptists, Bootleggers & Electronic Cigarettes’: A response to Professor Berman

 

[Kent C]

By Jonathan H. Adler July 10 at 6:27 PM
"The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products under federal law could do more to benefit Big Tobacco than to safeguard public health. Major cigarette manufacturers stand to benefit from regulations that both reduce the comparative advantage of electronic cigarettes and constrain competition within the e-cigarette market. For this reason, it should be no surprise that the Big Two tobacco companies — Altria and Reynolds — supported the FDA’s proposal to begin such regulation."

‘Baptists, Bootleggers & Electronic Cigarettes’: A response to Professor Berman

Adler should talk to Dr. Siegel and update his story:

Deeming Regulations have been released!!!!

BT as a whole was 'for' the deeming, except now, support Cole/Bishop according to Siegel for the purposes he stated in the video - basically that they'd rather be a smaller part in a huge ($40 Billion) market (with Cole/Bishop) rather than a big part in a small ($1 billion) market (keeping the grandfather date at 2007).

 

[KentA]

It is nice to see our side of the story composed at Yale & published in the Washington Post.

 

[bobwho77]

I don't have the time to look for them, but I'm pretty sure that there were threads posted on both of these articles, when they were first published....