Deeming Regulations have been released!!!!

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In addition, I use double-sided 3M UHB/VHB tapes, bondic, q-tips, lighting gel sheets, solder, wire, superglue, hot glue, paints, screws, and all kinds of crazy contraptions for mixing and shaking. Where would it stop?

Tweezers, fingernail clippers, small scissors, magnifying glass, screwdrivers...LOL This whole regulation thing is a complete joke. :facepalm:
 

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These regulations show one of two things (maybe both)
1) The FDA is totally ignorant of the way modern vaporizer systems work, and/or
2) They intend to utterly crush the market for open tank vaporizer systems.
(OK it's both)
EVERY possible battery/tank/coil combination could potentially be deemed a unique device, subject to it's own PMTA requirements. The way (An XCube mini, with a TFV4? OK. How many different coils do they make for that? You can use a Triton on there? Hmmm... You need to test that, too...)
There could well be more possible combinations of components than there are vapers in the US
 

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I'll see your Boxer and raise you a Malarky, I mean Markey. He's the one who gave the speech saying the industry should be killed. Elizabeth Warren has also supported the deeming much to my dismay.
Markey is another fascist. They're everywhere these days.
 
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Has anyone actually looked at the links to the sponsors that are trying to help the cigar industry get exempted from the FDA regs?

CONTACT Those that are on that list that belong to your district. Ask them to also get on board with HR2058. I've contacted mine that are on the list. Yes, it is Dems and Repubs.

Seems as though the cigar industry has bipartisanship. Make them listen to us too.
My suggestion would be to liason with CASAA and get their input.
And liason with Oliver and get his input.

If either one says we should move on that, then let's get a banner up.
I'm not sure why we wouldn't want to though.

But there are only so many banners you can put up.
And figuring out the BEST way to martial our "forces" might take a few days.

Thankfully, there are a lot of options to consider.
:)
 

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Not if they are part of a "conspiracy" to price everyone else out of the business, they will just take the hit of going through the PMTA process and then recoup loss' when they are the only vendors left standing.

I can't see a cigarette successfully completing a PMTA application either, right? How can they prove a new cigarette will benefit the public health? I would think those newer brands would also have to disappear in a few years too if the regulations remain as written.
 

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    Tweezers, fingernail clippers, small scissors, magnifying glass, screwdrivers...LOL This whole regulation thing is a complete joke. :facepalm:
    Hmmm, these lists look surprisingly like my Amazon recommendations, ever since I looked at wire and Coilmaster stuff on Amazon. Which makes Amazon's software a tobacco product as well.
     

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    I can't see a cigarette successfully completing a PMTA application either, right? How can they prove a new cigarette will benefit the public health? I would think those newer brands would also have to disappear in a few years too if the regulations remain as written.

    Traditional Cigs won't have the same burden, there's a second path that can be used for products that are significantly the same as a pre-2007 product.
     

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    Preetty sure they do.
    And they get approved.


    Im wondering if Big Tobacco will be removing all their newer brands of Cigarettes off the market that were introduced after 2007 as well?

    Just offhand, I dont remember Marlboro Black, Marlboro Edge, or several camel brands as well as a slew of their cigalikes (Mark 10 comes to mind) that are now being sold being available since 2007. Wouldn't those have to go thru a PMTA process too?
     

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    Overview
    A substantially equivalent tobacco product has been found by FDA to either have the same characteristics as a predicate tobacco product; or has different characteristics than the predicate tobacco product but the information submitted demonstrates that the new product does not raise different questions of public health.

    A predicate tobacco product is one that was commercially marketed in the United States (other than in a test market) as of Feb. 15, 2007, or a product previously found to be substantially equivalent by FDA and in compliance with the requirements of the Food Drug & Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act).

    If the new product raises different questions of public health, the product is not substantially equivalent. However, a tobacco product that is modified by adding or deleting a tobacco additive, or increasing or decreasing the quantity of an existing tobacco additive, may be considered for exemption from demonstrating substantial equivalence.
     

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    Below is the response I received from my state senator this morning...
    Credit given for the obvious effort put in to craft the reply.
    I will keep your thoughts in mind, if legislation about this regulation comes to the Senate floor for a vote.
    But this sentence, found in all such replies, betrays the real truth.
    He wants to placate you, but he will do what he will do.

    The only question that remains is whether or not you will hold him accountable.
    The vast majority of the public don't even bother, so neither do they.
     

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    What "study?"

    I can't post a link due to John Oliver's occasional colorful language, but it's a good retort about "studies." (On youtube) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Scientific Studies
    Great timing for this to have aired. Last night, I guess.
    Important, really funny, and highly relevant to our crisis.
     

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    cigarettes are not substantially equivalent to a tobacco product...they are a tobacco product and therefore exempt.
    Yes and No. They define any changes to an existing tobacco product as being a new tobacco product unless the change is so minor (determined by them) that it doesn't have to go through the SE path. It certainly would never go through a PMTA path. For example, Stinkies that have the snap menthol thing in them would probably be considered a new tobacco product, but it has a predicate the standard ole stinkie. So, it would probably go through the SE path. Although that is all to be determined by the FDA's interpretation of their own rules.

    "
    How does FDA define a new tobacco product?
    A new tobacco product is defined under Section 910(a)(1) of the FD&C Act as “any tobacco product (including those products in test markets) that was not commercially marketed in the United States as of February 15, 2007; or any modification (including a change in design, any component, any part, or any constituent, including a smoke constituent, or in the content, delivery or form of nicotine, or any other additive or ingredient) of a tobacco product where the modified product was commercially marketed in the United States after February 15, 2007.”"
     

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    Does anyone think anybody will really care about the creative folks who skirt the regs and exploit grey areas? Probably not if the mainstream market is obliterated and handed over to big tobacco. That's the real mission.
    You just ended this entire thread in one fell swoop.
    I'm surprised it took so long for someone to drop the microphone.
     

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