Did the CDC Just Save the Electronic Cigarette Industry?

[oplholik]

A Motely Fool article, but looks pretty interesting.

"Its biggest findings revolve around those who actually do partake in e-cigs:
47.6% of current smokers had tried e-cigs
55.4% of smokers who had quit had used e-cigs"


Did the CDC Just Save the Electronic Cigarette Industry? -- The Motley Fool

 

[LaraC]

Helping smokers quit.

The kind of buzz words that shove an e-cig into the "medical device" category. The FDA hoops they'd have to jump through to get approval as a medical device are just as tough and expensive (understatement) if not more so, than what the FDA has proposed for them as tobacco products.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Either way, killing the electronic cigarette industry as we know it.

CDC could be positioning itself to be in favor of e-cigs only as medical devices. Still regulated by the FDA and dumbed down until they tasted no better and worked no better than just another yucky form of this:

 

[AndriaD]

Helping smokers quit.

The kind of buzz words that shove an e-cig into the "medical device" category. The FDA hoops they'd have to jump through to get approval as a medical device are just as tough and expensive (understatement) if not more so, than what the FDA has proposed for them as tobacco products.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Either way, killing the electronic cigarette industry as we know it.

CDC could be positioning itself to be in favor of e-cigs only as medical devices. Still regulated by the FDA and dumbed down until they tasted no better and worked no better than just another yucky form of this:

Yeah.. I think the fact that we ENJOY vaping is one of the things that most galls the ANTZ. Nobody should ever enjoy anything, according to them.

Andria

 

[oplholik]

Yeah, both of you are probably right on. ^^

 

[AndriaD]

Which is pretty weird, really. GlANTZ clearly enjoys his food, he enjoys it so much he's at least 50 lbs overweight, maybe closer to 100 lbs.

I guess the ANTZ are the only ones allowed to enjoy anything. The rest of us must only suffer.

Andria

 

[oplholik]

Wonder what he'd do when a big group start in on the killer stuff he enjoys?

 

[AndriaD]

Wonder what he'd do when a big group start in on the killer stuff he enjoys?

Probably claim that his avoirdupois is because of some "medical condition." Even though it's probably the medical condition of eating too much and exercising too little.

Andria

 

[Kent C]

Which is pretty weird, really. GlANTZ clearly enjoys his food, he enjoys it so much he's at least 50 lbs overweight, maybe closer to 100 lbs.

I guess the ANTZ are the only ones allowed to enjoy anything. The rest of us must only suffer.

Andria

Those 'in charge' almost always exempt themselves from the decisions they make for others. Unless they've worked elsewhere, no one in Congress gets Social Security or Obamacare. (among many other things they enact.)

 

[LoveVanilla]

Hmmm, article seemed to be a breath of fresh air. Almost looks like ANTZ is now scared of getting its own wish, e.g. the butchers of ANTZ. Lack of innovation was even mentioned. However, I am an optimist so maybe didn't consider with enough suspicion or cynicism. Or maybe some voices of reason are now being heard among the medical and scientific communities. Maybe...

 

[bigdancehawk]

Yeah.. I think the fact that we ENJOY vaping is one of the things that most galls the ANTZ. Nobody should ever enjoy anything except *the psychoactive drug which must not be named*, according to them.

Andria

FYP

 

[bigdancehawk]

Those 'in charge' almost always exempt themselves from the decisions they make for others. Unless they've worked elsewhere, no one in Congress gets Social Security or Obamacare. (among many other things they enact.)

In essence, regulators view all of us as children and themselves as parents. Everything they do flows from that.

 

[Kent C]

In essence, regulators view all of us as children and themselves as parents. Everything they do flows from that.

If that's the case, the harm they do, Child Services would be called in.

Actually, time for the terrible twos lol.... Or a teen rebellion...

 

[Katya]

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Either way, killing the electronic cigarette industry as we know it.

CDC could be positioning itself to be in favor of e-cigs only as medical devices. Still regulated by the FDA and dumbed down until they tasted no better and worked no better than just another yucky form of this:

Right on. Maybe the CDC has been inspired by PHE?

Nictrol Inhaler! I had one of those, One of the most vile things on this planet...

 

[AndriaD]

FYP

Hmm... if you're gonna quote me.. don't put words in my mouth that might get me in trouble with the mods. I never said a word about any psychoactive substances.

Andria

 

[Rossum]

At this point in the game, the big players need a few positive studies to justify the FDA actually approving some of the PMTAs they will invest millions in...