I wonder why we tout them this way. I quit smoking vaping, how about you?
Well gee, I did to. Outside of which kind of FDA regulation the products fall under I can't think of any reason why manufacturers, marketers and sellers of 'vapor products' would not tout the same products as aids to quit smoking or nicotine replacement.
So since its not a 'food' product or a 'tobacco' product and its used for nicotine replacement or as a stop smoking aid then its a 'drug' or 'combined' product.
The FDA report seemed to focus on so called 'consumer confusion' over what vaping products intended use is and what risks to using the products or how safe the products are.
Forget about the taxes, the FDA is not concerned with them but rather public safety. If your selling a 'drug' to the public it better have a bunch of studies and scientific evidence to at least prove it is not 'unsafe' otherwise it will become illegal to sell the stuff unless it is "FDA Approved". Only approved for certain uses.
As the FDA points out, there is already FDA approved NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) on the market (at HUGE overpriced margins). What makes ours better than the others?
Simply put: ours (vaping) works where the others fail.
Of course there will have to be studies to prove this and more studies to prove that vaping is not any more harmful than current stop smoking aids (forget about proving it is safer/healthy than smoking).
All purchased juice will need to be FDA approved which will kill all the B&M's.
Then you have the hardware. While POT is still illegal in most states even when it was illegal in all states there were shops which sold water pipes, bongs and other stuff known to only be useful for "drug use" and while a number of laws popped up at the local level to shut down shops, the stuff never seemed to get on the Federal radar.
The ONE THING here that worries me is the FDA shutting off the nicotine supply. If DIY'ers can no longer make juice (heck if *I* can no longer make juice) that will be the end of vaping as we know it.
