I find it sadly ironic that Great Britain seems to have taking a somewhat more enlightened approach to e-cigarettes than my own country.
The Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to secure our unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is overwhelming evidence that e-cigarettes extend lives. They liberate us from combustible cigarettes. Using them is quite enjoyable and provides happiness without causing measurable harm to anyone. This has happened because entrepreneurs have had, until now, the liberty to innovate and sell these products without heavy handed and arbitrary government interference and we have had, until now, the liberty to choose those products which best fulfill our needs and desires.
Among the ways in which Great Britain interfered with the aforesaid unalienable rights was by erecting “a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.” We are seeing the modern equivalent perpetrated on us by the FDA with these deeming regulations.
As they have done so often before, Clive Bates, Carl Phillips, Bill Godshall, et al., will compose well written, cogent, well documented, and highly detailed explanations demonstrating why this set of regulations may well be the most harmful, ill-advised, and needlessly intrusive action of any regulatory agency in US government history. Thousands will sign and submit petitions. Yet the FDA will not pay the slightest heed. Does this sound familiar? “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. * * * We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity. * * * They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity.”
Well said.
The tree of liberty is thirsty, my friend......
...for the "blood of tyrants and patriots." T. Jefferson.Well said.
The tree of liberty is thirsty, my friend......
It's quite simple really, 400,000 deaths a year in the US from cigarette smoking equates to a multi billion dollar industry. It makes perfect financial sense to protect and promote the culprit, as it makes perfect financial sense to never find the cure for cancer because they simply make much more money treating it than curing it. The FDA as usual is only too happy to oblige it's masters.
If I understand it correctly, the FDA is fully funded by the entities it polices/regulates . . .. errrm . .. enables: fees, fines, applications, etc. No tax dollars involved in it's budget. So, it is absolutely in it's best interest to insure the financial health of B.T., but more importantly B.Ph. . ..
If our health were of any concern whatsoever to FDA, they might consider topics more germane to their mission . . .. like, say, high fructose corn syrup, . . . . or drugs that are actually harmful to people, like many of those prescribed today with their tip o' the hat.
looking like the body American Public is starting to most closely resemble carrion to be pecked at by the 1% and their table-scrappers before decomposition takes it wholly. [ring the dinner bell]
(Augustus!!!! . . .)
The vultures in the tree don't even come close Brian. They just keep the place clean from the road kill, they don't build cars that deliberately kill unsuspecting victims in order to fill their fat bellies.
They would if they could though
Your correct, but I couldn't find a picture of a dead tree with all the infamous mass murdreres from history in it. Would have definately been more appropriate![]()
I'm sorry if I come across harsh but I lost my dad to cancer and I feel very strongly on the subject.
I want to believe the justice system in this country has still a sense of what's right and what's wrong