and, did anyone notice what was missing? there wasn't a single reference to "what about the children!"
The FDA's Sharfstein, however, says it is premature to say e-cigarettes are safer until regulators know what is in them.
Ummmm - didn't the FDA just test these products, and splash their 'results' all over the media??? Now they are still claiming that they don't know what's in them?
"It just may be that these products could help some people quit smoking, in which case the manufacturers have the opportunity to come to the FDA and demonstrate that with data," he says. "It's their obligation to prove that in order to market to the American people."
Unfortunately, this is the rock vs. hard place we find ourselves in regarding the FDA - they can't get over the entire "quit smoking" thing..... but, then again, there have only been 2 catagories for the longest time...you either smoke or you don't..... and they simply cannot wrap themselves around an alternative....as I've said before - E-Cigs need to be classified differently, because they are an immergent technology and can't be pidgenholed into the same tired old classifications...
And, personally, I'd still like to hear directly from the FDA the reasons WHY the studies that have been done are not acceptable - they continue to demand data from the manufacturers - and don't acknowledge the studies already done....
