FDA Plans Severe Restrictions on E-Cigs

[CarolT]

As soon as next week, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is expected to announce a ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes — the majority of vaping products sold — in tens of thousands of convenience stores and gas stations across the country, according to senior agency officials. According to its officials, the agency will also impose such rules as age-verification requirements for online sales.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...253cf2-e3a1-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html

 

[Izan]

"The FDA will continue to permit sales of the flavor because menthol is permitted in regular cigarettes as well, and the agency doesn’t want to give traditional cigarettes an advantage over e-cigarettes in the retail setting."

BT is losing market share. The FDA can NOT permit that to happen.

"The restrictions don’t apply to the “open-tank” systems available in vape shops."

Nice comments on WP.com.
Thank you @CarolT !

Cheers
I

 

[puffon]

"Gottlieb’s steps will almost certainly be denounced as too aggressive by the industry and too weak by public health groups and Democratic lawmakers, whose election victory will likely embolden them in efforts to curb youths’ use of e-cigarettes."

I'm sure after January there will be a push by the newly emboldened "lawmakers" to expand the restrictions to the whole industry.

 

[Letitia]

Until the entire country gets involved in a grassroots movement to restructure the FDA powers it's just more of ssdd. Nothing will change until enough people get fed up with being nannied.

 

[zoiDman]

As soon as next week, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is expected to announce a ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes — the majority of vaping products sold — in tens of thousands of convenience stores and gas stations across the country, according to senior agency officials. According to its officials, the agency will also impose such rules as age-verification requirements for online sales.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...253cf2-e3a1-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html

Kinda saw this thing coming.

Just hoped, Naively, that Cooler Heads would prevail.

 

[Letitia]

Kinda saw thing coming.

Just hoped, Naively, that Cooler Heads would prevail.

Hug coming your way.

 

[puffon]

I think these kids are attracted to the nic "buzz", not the flavors.
They could get better flavor from a lollipop.

 

[Letitia]

This has always been the draw to smoking and vaping. Rebellious but not as bad as hard drugs. Teens do rationalize very well at times.

 

[zoiDman]

Hug coming your way.

Thanks Letitia.

This has been a Bad Day already. And it just seems to Keep Getting Worse.

I just wish people like Durbin, who are Anti-Tobacco Bent because they Lost someone, could realize that Quashing e-Cigarettes is doing More Harm than good.

 

[Letitia]

Bigger hug on the way.

 

[untar]

Wait so the ban doesn't apply to vape shops? And isn't age restriction already in place in most online "real" vape shops?

If that's the case then "our" industry seems to have gotten away cleanly. Hope I'm not misunderstanding anything (like vape shops somehow being "convenience stores" or something, that's not how I would understand the term but I'm not a native speaker).

 

[Bronze]

There was a time the right were nannies and the left was, “If it feels good, do it”. It hasn’t reversed but the gap is a whole lot narrower.

 

[zoiDman]

Wait so the ban doesn't apply to vape shops? And isn't age restriction already in place in most online "real" vape shops?

If that's the case then "our" industry seems to have gotten away cleanly. Hope I'm not misunderstanding anything (like vape shops somehow being "convenience stores" or something, that's not how I would understand the term but I'm not a native speaker).

So what happens when Youth vaping rates Don't plummet?

Do you think the FDA will just say... "Well we gave it a good shot. Guess there is nothing more we can do."

 

[Letitia]

So what happens when Youth vaping rates Don't plummet?

Do you think the FDA will just say... "Well we gave it a good shot. Guess there is nothing more we can do."

No they will go more extreme. BP & BT need the following generations to be smokers.

 

[zoiDman]

No they will go more extreme. BP & BT need the following generations to be smokers.

Yeah... there is that.

What kinda gets me in all this is Seldom do you see an FDA's Action reversed. So once something is Gone, it is pretty much Gone for Good.

 

[englishmick]

There was a time the right were nannies and the left was, “If it feels good, do it”. It hasn’t reversed but the gap is a whole lot narrower.

Seems to me both sides take much the same position. You are free to choose, from the list of things we approve of. They have different lists but the principle is the same.

Unfortunately for us vaping isn't on either list.

 

[Hoggy]

I just wish people like Durbin, who are Anti-Tobacco Bent because they Lost someone, could realize that Quashing e-Cigarettes is doing More Harm than good.

That's what always gets me.. The sheer irony and lack of logical thought processes.

 

[CarolT]

"The FDA will continue to permit sales of the flavor because menthol is permitted in regular cigarettes as well, and the agency doesn’t want to give traditional cigarettes an advantage over e-cigarettes in the retail setting."

BT is losing market share. The FDA can NOT permit that to happen.

"The restrictions don’t apply to the “open-tank” systems available in vape shops."

Nice comments on WP.com.
Thank you @CarolT !

Cheers
I

I figured it would help to get some vapers over there.

 

[Rossum]

Nice comments on WP.com.

I just looked at them. Wow. It seems that the public opinion has started to shift in a favorable direction.

 

[ruet]

"Gottlieb’s steps will almost certainly be denounced as too aggressive by the industry and too weak by public health groups and Democratic lawmakers, whose election victory will likely embolden them in efforts to curb youths’ use of e-cigarettes."

I'm sure after January there will be a push by the newly emboldened "lawmakers" to expand the restrictions to the whole industry.

Good, any such measure should be killed by the Senate and during the process real public debate and information disclosure can occur. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.