FDA regulations

[Vapevapevape234903204]

I am wondering what will happen to vape shops after the FDA regulations are put in place in 2 years. Will they disappear completely or just become rare? Will tobacco shops still sell any vaping products? Will good mods still be available to buy?

 

[Max-83]

The answers your looking for are covered extensively in the deeming and prepping threads on this board. Go there and read away.

 

[coolerat]

I am wondering what will happen to vape shops after the FDA regulations are put in place in 2 years. Will they disappear completely or just become rare? Will tobacco shops still sell any vaping products? Will good Mods still be available to buy?

As currently written vape shops will all be gone in 2 or less years. I doubt many will bother staying open the full 2 years even if they came. Almost all the juice will be gone and thats where the money is.

 

[Grimwald]

There are several things that will start in just 3 months like labeling. Also, I fear there will be some raids that will close down local shops...and there will be further local and state laws to complicate things. I doubt that many shops will last for 2 years.

 

[bnrkwest]

It is sad, we really don't know how bad things will be but it is not looking good. Vape will be managed as a tobacco product and vape shops will have to be licensed as tobacco sellers & manufacturers in their state. This on top of the deeming requirements to apply for their vape products to be approved by FDA which will cost thousands if not millions of dollars. Sad day for the vape world.

 

[440BB]

Unless something changes, FDA regulation as it's laid out will likely leave only closed system cigalikes available through licensed tobacco dealers - gas stations, party stores and tobacco shops. Tobacco shops may have a broader choice of cigalikes, but they will be pretty much what Big Tobacco offers now. I don't think any mods will be available through retail channels in the US.

Unless something changes.

 

[Rickajho]

You could just go and read about it in the appropriate part of the forum that already has a few hundred threads going already. FDA Regulations

 

[Baditude]

My local vape shop, whose owner runs at least three shops in different small towns, said he will be closed forever within two years.

Only the small cigarette-size vaporizers will be "grandfathered" in with the new regulations, because they were around in 2007. Everything else made post-2007 (which is 99% of what is sold online and in vape shops) will need to be approved by expensive applications by the FDA by 2018. As most manufacturers and shops are small "mom & pop" businesses, hardly any will be able to afford the application process. The FDA didn't create an all out ban, but the application process will eliminate all but Big Tobacco's offerings in my opinion.