Google cigarette generated income world wide and be shocked. 70+ billion a year just in the USA plus 190+ billion a year in medical treatment related to the use of cigarettes. You don't think they want to protect that in any way they can? Globally the revenue generated is higher than most countries GDP.
Of course they aren't as bad it's not difficult to know that if you continue using a handful of chemicals instead of thousands and stop burning them causing by products to form it is safer. This isn't a battle for our well being it's a battle to recover losses to the single largest tax cash cow the government has. I wonder if the general public knows or cares what happens to us smokers and ex smokers.
The part that makes me sick is turning on the TV and seeing all the pharmaceutical drugs the FDA allows that have side effects including death, suicide, etc. Also how many get recalled every year which suggests their clinical trials obviously weren't thorough enough. It is all about money there is no way to argue differently.
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I agree as far as the cash cow, taxes or loosing taxes. When it comes to drugs, clinical test are done by the manufacture on their dime, they show results to FDA, FDA may choose to do some of its own trials of its own but for the most part they go with the tests done by the manufacture, FDA can send the drug back into testing also not passing it. It can be years and years spent in test starting with animals moving on to the final stage of people. Depending on the drug there are exceptable limits of side effects, and rare effects. Its done with % of people that get them. side effect or benifical out come. This is weight out. The clinical tests are anywhere from a few thousand people to a few hundred. Really the real test is when its put to market and the masses start taking the drug.
No drug is known 100% when it comes to market. The time it would take to do a long term (20-30-40 years) would just be to long. Alot of these drugs are need now not 20-30 years from now. Important drugs like for AIDS went threw a fast track because of the pressure to have something to treat with, drugs like the smoke cessation drugs have maybe a 5 years at most. The exceptable side effects are noted and the drs weight out the good virsus bad for the patient. There are some drugs that shouldnt be used for things that they have been used for, most drugs are assigned a purpose to help with x thing and cant be used for anything else unless the tests are done again for that thing. Some drugs have crossover multiple things of what they work on. I feel its as much the drs responsiblity to realize who should be taking these drugs but now days drs only see patients for less than 15 min on average and the dr dont always get it right.
Every drug has side effects, rare side effects and allergy cautions, even aspirin. There are thousands and thousands of useful and helpful drugs on the market, can all take these drugs, no. Ive seen people take their drugs wrong, mix drugs up in bottles, take over the counter drugs wrong, so its the consumers responsiblity to be informed also. I cringe every time I see someone tip a bottle of cough med to their mouth and take a drink. Its also up to the consumer to inform their dr everything they need to, I have found its like pulling teeth to get info out of people. Nobody can be treated properly unless they are up an up with the dr, or pharmacy. Its a fact people are living longer because we have advanced so much farther than we were 50 years ago.
So what im saying here its not all the FDA, it filters all the way down to the consumer. If we didnt have the FDA to over see what the drug companies are doing we would have alot more deaths, leaving it up to the drug companies cutting corners or doing what they want is a very bad thing.
So when it come to e-cigs with all the pressure from outside grps, the non-smoking, anti-smoking, quit or die grps, and then the BT and BD im really not sure how FDA will handle this. Knowing they have exceptable side effects % and if they see it as a true replacement it might be favorable for the e-cig industery. I would personally like to see them get it away from being classified as a tobacco, its not and I wish they would consede that nicotine is not harmful in small amounts by its self.
