Alternate view - FDA's goal and how we should proceed

[Vocalek]

Sorry, but I can't sign this. This is a perfect example of how we as a population need to do our homework, learn the facts of vaping and construct arguments in support of e-cigs only after we learn the real issues at hand with the FDA (oh, did anyone bother to figure out that they're not out to ban e-cigs at all? Read the real stuff, not the activist propaganda you mostly see here) and also begin to acknowledge that e-cigs do pose their own health hazards that, although less than those of smoking on the lung front, will be our downfall if we keep using terms like "miracle device" rather than acknowledging a more realistic interpretation of the benfits and risks of vaping.

The fact is that every petition like this that is circulated solidifies their argument that these need to be regulated and every signature to a document like this solidifies their position that none of us understand the risks that are inherent in any nicotine ingestion. Frankly, the more efforts like this that I read and the more I see people talk on here, I don't think the other side is too far off when describing our collective lack of understanding when it comes to our own cause (oh, and the fact that we're circulating an online petition to start with makes us particularly dismissible from the get-go). And...that is what guarantees them a victory.

There are a lot of people who are guiding this movement who have a lot to learn and a hell of a lot of personal prejudice to get over if we want to get anywhere with this. As of right now, we're doing the FDA's work for them.

The above was posted as a response to the thread Electronic cigarette petition - please sign in the E-Cigarette News forum.

I, for one, would like to hear more. "They're not out to ban E-cigs at all? Read the real stuff."

Can you provide a link? From what I read on the FDA's own Web site, and from their own press releases, they would like to remove these from the market until they have been approved as a drug-delivery device. Have you read something different?

Can you please expand on "a more realistic interpretation of the benfits and risks of vaping." How would you phrase these interpretations?

Why do you believe it to be important that we acknowledge "the risks inherent in any nicotine ingestion"? What do you believe those risks to be, and how do they compare to the risks of continued smoking?

If petitions are the wrong way to go about keeping these products available, what strategies would you suggest?

 

[mtndude]

I'll quote Drew on this.. "There's no wrong way to do the right thing."

Doing nothing is not a good alternative, in my opinion.

Sign the dang petition! plz...

PETITION