Yeh,,,, my conservative friends say I'm a liberal and the liberal ones say I'm a conservative ... that's why I've come to saying "both."
Are you Bill O'Reilly?
Yeh,,,, my conservative friends say I'm a liberal and the liberal ones say I'm a conservative ... that's why I've come to saying "both."
Lol...
Hmmmm... good 'ole Bill. Not too fond of him personally... although i'm a conservative individual.![]()
You're talking about what goes into effect. I'm talking about as written.
If we don't complain about how hopeless the proposal is for the ecig future we won't be talking them out of it.
As written the proposal kills ecigs.
I believe that the ambiguity is a smokescreen.
I believe the hint of possible concessions is a smokescreen.
And I think they are all very bad things.
"Dr. Carl V. Phillips. FDA has cherry-picked the available evidence, "
This is what I see in the deeming doc as well as the newer "Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis" doc.
They'll "give" that some people say they have been helped and how it ecigs may be less dangerous than cigarettes - but only in general terms. When they state the anti side, it reads like something from Glantz (and very well may be) - ie more detailed, using scaremongering terms, although they left out 'wild west'![]()
Hello kitty!
Spot on!![]()
Yes.
And if you really listen carefully to Zeller's conversation with Judy Woodruff, he pretty much says exactly that.
Video: FDA cracks down on
We have to deem first, then we'll act.
This is the scariest video I've watched on the subject.
Anytime the government gets into to anything, it ruins it...
IAs I'm all on this limb by my lonesome, I'm not sure what else there is to say. I guess wait until your leaders come along tell you what to think and what to say to the FDA, and hopefully until then cooler heads will prevail?
I find the message of Mitch in this video troubling.
But not new. I don't see anything stated here that couldn't have been said in 2013, 2012, etc.
What's new is that we have a FDA proposal to regulate eCigs (that we knew was coming for at least 3 years) and it is nowhere near as heavy handed as it could've been and as MANY were saying it would be.
Now, we can say, the ambiguity is much worse. I'm thinking in an alternate universe, where they got the heavy handed version, they are wishing for the one we got in this universe. And in another alternate universe, where they got one where FDA says "we love eCigs and everyone's approved" our counterparts are saying, "lies, don't believe them. Vaping is going to get killed. They just forced us back to smoking."
As I'm all on this limb by my lonesome, I'm not sure what else there is to say. I guess wait until your leaders come along tell you what to think and what to say to the FDA, and hopefully until then cooler heads will prevail?
It doesn't matter what you or I think, Jman. That's the most troubling part. It's all in their hands. First they deem then they regulate. Period. We won't know what the deeming regulations are until they are passed. And once they are passed, the FDA has full control over everything.
Those are the facts. Everything else is speculation, wishful thinking, fear mongering--whatever. It doesn't matter.
Is this the new release they were talking about doing today...?
That last sentence pretty much explains the one before it. It's insulting, but you knew that.
To me we are already in a "black" or "gray" market. If there is one thing that concerns me the most about all of this it's the current state of the E-juice market. For every one upstanding juice vendor who is putting out good product and trying to help their customers we have many more who are just cashing in. In the short time I've been vaping I have been astounded by how many vendors do not openly disclose their PG/VG ratios, address diacetyl or other harmful additives, or in general talk about what is in their juice openly on their websites or product packaging. We are in a market where more and more Facebook juice vendors are selling on name and hype without disclosing anything about what's in it.
And "made in somebody's bathtub" is something that could be argued here in my area. I've got two local places selling E-cig stuff. One of them is a grow your own gardening shop who sells second hand Ebay clearomizers along with their own juice line which was the most chemical laden vape I've had to this point. And another tobacco store who is much more helpful but also has 100s and 100s of e-juice bottles for sale, labeled only for flavor, and that have clearly been oxidizing in the sun for a very long time.
There is an awful lot of e-juice being manufactured in spare bedrooms and kitchens across America by completely untrained people hiding behind slick websites and social media marketing. To me this is the biggest danger to this industry. If the FDA was driving around my area collecting bottles to sample this would already be over and I'd be trying to figure what I'm going to do now that vaping is illegal.
No, sounds like they're still working on the Call-to-Action.. No need to rush since they want to get it right...
"CASAA is preparing a response that will point out the flaws in the proposed regulations and is organizing its members and hundreds of thousand of other e-cigarette users in an attempt to persuade FDA about the harms this regulation would cause. Should that fail, it plans to fight the regulations in court."
I think it's safe to say that this thing is going to court...